What do you make of them? How often do you use yours? What do you use it for?

I dislike phones a lot. Even though they are a great tool for many things, I think people use them too much. Every day I'm on the train, the entire carriage is staring at their phone with expressionless faces. This hasn't changed much since the early 1900's, where they were staring at newspapers instead of phones.

I had to buy a watch so I could avoid looking at my phone when I want to check the time. When I need to quickly google something, that is when my phone is used. Other than that, my phone is just a glorified music player.

Thoughts?

Imagining people are watching vile, offensive porn when they are deep into their phones in public is a priceless endeavour. The facial expressions

My phone is my only connection to skynet, if I am to defeat the machines I first have to understand the machines. And as far as I understand them, they only want to sell me things which is benign in principle, but I can't shake the feeling that psychological concepts are easily extracted from the data that is being gathered (with the crudeness of a lobotomy or amputation at the moment).

Sometimes, I hold my phone in my hand and enter into ecstatic dance to confuse the accelerometer, keep it guessing you know?

- Sent from my iPhone

I use my phone for communication personal and that necessary for my job. I use it for navigation and information when needed. And finally I use it on the john for looking at silly things to distract my mind at the time that I need to relax the most.

Sometimes I use it to take pictures too, but not that often.

Like sphorange, this is my only connection to the Internet. I don't have Internet at home, or a phone line, or cable, just an antenna. My phone has faster processor than my laptop and I rarely use it anymore and I'm not buying another one just to play on the web, I still use it occasionally for fiddling around with music software that I have but that's about it.

Otherwise I use it for just about everything.

I recently went four years without a smartphone. Now I get to spend a good few hours at work not working and reading the nexus, so that's pretty neat. It's also great and used frequently for taking pictures of my children.



It's amazing to me, though, working in retail and attempting to complete a monetary transaction, over half of the customers can't make it through a 45 second transaction without impulsively checking their phone, most of the time Facebook. They're adults and yet they remind me of the little nerdy children who couldn't take their head out of a game boy when I was younger.

we don't like it how the ear & brain get's hot with these new phones, so we use an 80's push button phone with a sim card via a used $10 GSM Router....we have a smartphone but we never use it unless we are going on a long trip....

I don't like phones, never have. I got a cheap phone for work, and by cheap I mean ten dollars for the phone, twenty dollars for three months service. No camera, no internet, just talk and text.

I would hate to have to rely on a phone for internet access, what a shitty little way to look through the portal of the world. I have an iPad mini, which is what I use at home for podcasts and whatnot, a real computer for watching shit, and a laptop only used for writing. So, yes, I am very much connected, just not when I leave the house.

Phones are like substances, they can either numb you down or expand your abilities beyond your previous awareness.

Some can handle that better than others.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

i have an extensive collection of electronics.
multi phones, multi tablets, laptops and accounts.

i use them randomly and rarely carry any with me.
i also use a large patchwork of free wifi on the island.

we use them for information infrastructure.
anything of merit, is reserved for personal face to face discussion.

its rare for me to actually answer or talk on a phone, we mostly text.

i do not allow guests to bring ANY electronics in my home.
they are removed and placed in a safe by the door.
if your a new guest , i want the battery removed also.

if i send a driver for a guest, i want the battery out before you get in the vehicle.

i do have a metal detector wand also............


bottom line, we control our electronics, they do not control us.