UK - I have not had this happen to me yet. But guess its coming to my phone soon! 😖😖😖
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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.