Same. I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I think back at how much better life felt without constant technological distractions. I had actual hobbies that didn't involve a WiFi connection. I used to read all the time. I used to write stories. I used to draw. I used to create things. If there's one thing "smart phones" steal from you, it's creativity. And time, of course.
Cutting tech time can only lead to self-improvement.
Right? I have family and friends that get so annoyed with me because I pay very little attention to my personal phone most days.
I had a consulting gig four a couple of years that had me working in downtown minneapolis not long ago (2018-2020). I'd always go for a long walk during lunch time for the exercise and people watching.
In two years, I saw half a dozen people almost killed by the light rail because they were walking around in the usual cell phone zombie pose. None were children. That's to say nothing of well over half the people would be in the cell phone zombie pose while walking around on any given day.
I like my phone, it's useful. But it's a tool that's used when I feel like it. I know I sound like an old man, but people have gone insane with their cell phone addiction.
It's both mystifying and sad to see the generation of youth who have their phones surgically attached to the end of their noses. They'll be lost when the lights go out on their life tether!
I know I'm "old school" because we still pay for our groceries and out to dinner with cash. I have to chuckle at the reaction of the cashier in the grocery store when she says you can go ahead and swipe your card, and I say I'm using cash. The look I get is always priceless like I'm from the stone age. LOL
What if loved ones urgently need to contact you? That's why my phone is always on. If my dad takes sick and gone to hospital in the middle of the night then I want to know about it.
People who survived lived with families. They did not live alone like so many do now. There was always someone at hand to help if you needed it, or to go and fetch the doctor or the constable or the firemen or the sheriff or the neighbors.
I'm in UK, regular landline phones are pretty much gone now and no I don't have one. BT, our telecomms infrastructure company has set a target to remove old landline system completely in next couple years. Suspect it will happen to you in US as well because the maintenance cost of traditional system is huge in comparison to sending the call over TCP/IP.
I don't like the thought of being tracked either. I don't see how it helps though leaving mobile phone switched off overnight because I guess the government already knows where I live.
They won't get rid of the landline, because that's how a lot of people get internet. The landline stands up to storms better than cell service. Tree limbs break electric lines, but only drag phone lines down to the ground. I've never lost phone service during a hurricane. But I've lost electricity a lot, and if the electricity is out, the cell towers go out.
I hear you, I was born in the
50's and grew up in the 60's. LOL I remember when "calculators" became into popular use. Today my car let's me know if I get in the car and my phone is "missing"!
Iβm getting really close. Ending our 30th Anniversary vacation in WA trying to help my mom move down with us to MO and dealing with worldβs most impossible irrational person isnβt proving fun.
She has Osteoarthritis and keeps breaking bones and just had two emergency back surgeries and my youngest brother took pictures of her house, turning her in to adult protective services to get it condemned. 40+ years of hoarding with literal goat trails and her 1979 mobile home is full of black mold and ceiling giving out. All she will do is blame everyone else and make mean comments. My siblings are all writing her off and dumping on me now.
Thanks. She has always had a mean streak a mile wide and I usually got the worst of it but Iβm now finding out that my much younger siblings got the brunt of it when I moved out at nineteen (the first second I got a chance) and they were still little. She divorced my dad when I was seven, remarried a year later and began a new family. Now the mean streak is ten miles wide. Iβm really close to telling her βIβm done tooβ because Iβm already getting knots in my stomach over it. Hadnβt seen her in the two years since we left WA and she is so much worse and her health is too. She told me yesterday she can just air out and bleach things and that those with a clean house are lazy. πππππ. When I asked how she planned to bleach black mold from her insulation-crickets.
I will be praying for your family. In my experience, waiting the person out is hard because there is no reasoning with those whose cognitive functions aren't working right no matter the reason. Strokes, alcohol, drugs including rx, do things to the brain that are just starting to be understood. I have found it hardest to just accept them as they are and concentrate on what I can actually do anything about. Please don't forget to take care of yourself.
I went through this also with my father in law who lived in another state. Same thing - hoarding, moldy mobile home, floor falling in, bug infestation. In retrospect my husband and I wish we would have let him be or let social services find him a place to live.
Instead we took him in temporarily. The entire situation harmed the state of our marriage, and it took almost 2 years to recover from 4 months of dealing with him. He went to live with another relative in another state who later died, and the person who got the house in the will cannot get him out! (NY, covid, refuses to leave) It is a hot mess! All for a POS who had very little to do with my husband his entire life and would only contact him every couple of years when he needed money.
His other children had enough sense to write him off decades ago.
I think you have to upload them to an image hosting site and then you share the link to them. If you were to make a post, however, you could upload a photo directly from your phone/pc.
Same. I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I think back at how much better life felt without constant technological distractions. I had actual hobbies that didn't involve a WiFi connection. I used to read all the time. I used to write stories. I used to draw. I used to create things. If there's one thing "smart phones" steal from you, it's creativity. And time, of course.
Cutting tech time can only lead to self-improvement.
Right? I have family and friends that get so annoyed with me because I pay very little attention to my personal phone most days.
I had a consulting gig four a couple of years that had me working in downtown minneapolis not long ago (2018-2020). I'd always go for a long walk during lunch time for the exercise and people watching.
In two years, I saw half a dozen people almost killed by the light rail because they were walking around in the usual cell phone zombie pose. None were children. That's to say nothing of well over half the people would be in the cell phone zombie pose while walking around on any given day.
I like my phone, it's useful. But it's a tool that's used when I feel like it. I know I sound like an old man, but people have gone insane with their cell phone addiction.
I know this may "sound" creepy, but I do love to sometimes sit and just "people watch". We are such interesting creatures.
Nah I totally get it, SW. People watching in big cities is endlessly entertaining. Plenty of beautiful women and lots of crazies.
It's both mystifying and sad to see the generation of youth who have their phones surgically attached to the end of their noses. They'll be lost when the lights go out on their life tether!
I know I'm "old school" because we still pay for our groceries and out to dinner with cash. I have to chuckle at the reaction of the cashier in the grocery store when she says you can go ahead and swipe your card, and I say I'm using cash. The look I get is always priceless like I'm from the stone age. LOL
What if loved ones urgently need to contact you? That's why my phone is always on. If my dad takes sick and gone to hospital in the middle of the night then I want to know about it.
I mean people managed to survive without them for 1000s of years before like 20 years ago. How did they manage to do it?
People who survived lived with families. They did not live alone like so many do now. There was always someone at hand to help if you needed it, or to go and fetch the doctor or the constable or the firemen or the sheriff or the neighbors.
They weren't alone.
Don't you have a regular landline phone? I do. I do not carry a tracking device around with me. I do not want to be on a 24/7 leash.
I'm in UK, regular landline phones are pretty much gone now and no I don't have one. BT, our telecomms infrastructure company has set a target to remove old landline system completely in next couple years. Suspect it will happen to you in US as well because the maintenance cost of traditional system is huge in comparison to sending the call over TCP/IP.
I don't like the thought of being tracked either. I don't see how it helps though leaving mobile phone switched off overnight because I guess the government already knows where I live.
They won't get rid of the landline, because that's how a lot of people get internet. The landline stands up to storms better than cell service. Tree limbs break electric lines, but only drag phone lines down to the ground. I've never lost phone service during a hurricane. But I've lost electricity a lot, and if the electricity is out, the cell towers go out.
I hear you, I was born in the 50's and grew up in the 60's. LOL I remember when "calculators" became into popular use. Today my car let's me know if I get in the car and my phone is "missing"!
:::old gruff voice::: well when i was a boy, we had to shovel snow on snow days... for FREE
Iβm getting really close. Ending our 30th Anniversary vacation in WA trying to help my mom move down with us to MO and dealing with worldβs most impossible irrational person isnβt proving fun. She has Osteoarthritis and keeps breaking bones and just had two emergency back surgeries and my youngest brother took pictures of her house, turning her in to adult protective services to get it condemned. 40+ years of hoarding with literal goat trails and her 1979 mobile home is full of black mold and ceiling giving out. All she will do is blame everyone else and make mean comments. My siblings are all writing her off and dumping on me now.
Went through this same scenario about two years ago. God bless you. Praying for his amazing grace for you.
Thank you
I'm so sorry. It's hard as they get older.
Thanks. She has always had a mean streak a mile wide and I usually got the worst of it but Iβm now finding out that my much younger siblings got the brunt of it when I moved out at nineteen (the first second I got a chance) and they were still little. She divorced my dad when I was seven, remarried a year later and began a new family. Now the mean streak is ten miles wide. Iβm really close to telling her βIβm done tooβ because Iβm already getting knots in my stomach over it. Hadnβt seen her in the two years since we left WA and she is so much worse and her health is too. She told me yesterday she can just air out and bleach things and that those with a clean house are lazy. πππππ. When I asked how she planned to bleach black mold from her insulation-crickets.
I will be praying for your family. In my experience, waiting the person out is hard because there is no reasoning with those whose cognitive functions aren't working right no matter the reason. Strokes, alcohol, drugs including rx, do things to the brain that are just starting to be understood. I have found it hardest to just accept them as they are and concentrate on what I can actually do anything about. Please don't forget to take care of yourself.
I went through this also with my father in law who lived in another state. Same thing - hoarding, moldy mobile home, floor falling in, bug infestation. In retrospect my husband and I wish we would have let him be or let social services find him a place to live.
Instead we took him in temporarily. The entire situation harmed the state of our marriage, and it took almost 2 years to recover from 4 months of dealing with him. He went to live with another relative in another state who later died, and the person who got the house in the will cannot get him out! (NY, covid, refuses to leave) It is a hot mess! All for a POS who had very little to do with my husband his entire life and would only contact him every couple of years when he needed money.
His other children had enough sense to write him off decades ago.
Life is too short to help certain people!
How can I add photos??
Thanks, I really need it.
I think you have to upload them to an image hosting site and then you share the link to them. If you were to make a post, however, you could upload a photo directly from your phone/pc.
https://catbox.moe/
To this post? My grow. Kids call me a technotard if that tells you anything
Is there a way to combine text and photo?