Are there others here who, like me, don't have a 'smartphone'?
I've just never needed one. I have a laptop though, and that's what I'm using now to type this.
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benfaltiger004 · 46-50, M
I have a smartphone .. but I hardly use it for anything other than what a phone is intended to be used for.
But yes, having a smartphone is helpful when my family need me for anything or for something important.
I rather walk with my head up and looking around enjoying my walk rather than looking down in my smartphone (like most people do nowadays). The phone may be smart, but it makes people look dumb and act dumb.
But yes, having a smartphone is helpful when my family need me for anything or for something important.
I rather walk with my head up and looking around enjoying my walk rather than looking down in my smartphone (like most people do nowadays). The phone may be smart, but it makes people look dumb and act dumb.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@benfaltiger004 I couldn't agree more!
Though it's not the 'phone that is "smart", but its designers and programmers.
Sitting at the front of my favourite town-centre cafe, I reckoned at least the half the passers-by were openly carrying these things, with many either rabbiting into or tap-tap-tapping on, them. When scaffolding was in place for a few months on the shop front opposite I wondered how many so absorbed would crash head-first into one of the poles. None did, so perhaps their instruments had radar or sonar...
One of the daftest I saw was most certainly not dumb at all. Not only could she talk, she was loudly loquacious. This was a young woman sitting about ten yards from me on a busy railway station platform; 'phone on her lap, 'speaker turned up, her waffling excitedly away in a foreign language while facing not the telephone but a train standing with its engines running noisily, at the far platform. I have no idea if the woman at whom she was speaking heard anything clearly, but I heard her get an occasional word in edgeways.
Though it's not the 'phone that is "smart", but its designers and programmers.
Sitting at the front of my favourite town-centre cafe, I reckoned at least the half the passers-by were openly carrying these things, with many either rabbiting into or tap-tap-tapping on, them. When scaffolding was in place for a few months on the shop front opposite I wondered how many so absorbed would crash head-first into one of the poles. None did, so perhaps their instruments had radar or sonar...
One of the daftest I saw was most certainly not dumb at all. Not only could she talk, she was loudly loquacious. This was a young woman sitting about ten yards from me on a busy railway station platform; 'phone on her lap, 'speaker turned up, her waffling excitedly away in a foreign language while facing not the telephone but a train standing with its engines running noisily, at the far platform. I have no idea if the woman at whom she was speaking heard anything clearly, but I heard her get an occasional word in edgeways.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@benfaltiger004 I have been in a situation where actually, the 'phones [i]did [/i]shut everyone up!
I belong to a club that offers accommodation for members and guests, and one evening was the only member among a guest group of about a dozen people. Their leader was busy on a lap-top, apparently for work or study. A couple using another were probably watching a video. The rest were all engrossed in "Solo Tap-Scroll-Tap-Scroll". Perhaps searching for thumb-arthritis remedies.
Barely a word between any of them for nearing two hours - they ignored me and I felt I could not try to converse with them, so found something to read. Eventually I went to the pub, leaving these digital Trappists to their eerie silence not at all natural for a bunch in their late-teens / early-20s.
Maybe they were "talking" to each other but had lost the skill to do so by voice....
I belong to a club that offers accommodation for members and guests, and one evening was the only member among a guest group of about a dozen people. Their leader was busy on a lap-top, apparently for work or study. A couple using another were probably watching a video. The rest were all engrossed in "Solo Tap-Scroll-Tap-Scroll". Perhaps searching for thumb-arthritis remedies.
Barely a word between any of them for nearing two hours - they ignored me and I felt I could not try to converse with them, so found something to read. Eventually I went to the pub, leaving these digital Trappists to their eerie silence not at all natural for a bunch in their late-teens / early-20s.
Maybe they were "talking" to each other but had lost the skill to do so by voice....