Interesting segment on CNN about cell phone "addicts"
 

According to several sociologists.......those who are "addicted" to their cell phone rely on them to reassure them of their self worth.

In other words.....when they are able (via cell phone) connect to other people - it reassures them that they have friends....and are worthy of having friends.

Does this mean they have a weak self-esteem?

I've often wondered why people have to constantly be on their cell phones all the time.

I've seen people unable to back out of their drive without getting on their phone. To the point where they are not operating their vehicle safely.

Man that is sad....

It is sad.

Someone could probably walk through an airport terminal dressed as a Unicorn and most would not notice since they are too busy staring at the cell phone.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 that does way more than I want it to. It is easier to send a text when I am buying or selling something than my old flip phone, but I still have never accessed the internet or texted/IMd or tweeted any of my friends.....don't even know thier #s. I have the phone to keep in contact while out of town or getting home late........it's NOT my entertainment. I still would rather grab a magazine while in a waiting room, rather than being connected.

I'm sure the idiot that ran a stop sign into me at 60 mph was on his phone at the time he hit me, his ringing phone ended up on the passenger side of my car.

When I used to start work at 5:30am, I would always see people driving into the parking lot, gabbing away on the phone and still gabbing away as they walked into the bldg. Who the hell were they calling at that hour?

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Security does notice, I have found. Probably shouldn't have had a rainbow too.

Sitting read a magazine is no different, from sitting read the net from a cell phone IMHO.

I don't shop, read on my phone. I do text now, and mostly talk on it. The traffic map is very nice to have, especially in this town. No, I am never on Pelican through the phone.

I always wonder that in the mornings as well. Don't call me wanting to chit chat. I don't want to talk to you that much or that early.

This seems to be more common among a certain age, sex and racial group. Just an observation.

You do that while you are driving? :eek:

LOL at the 1:45 mark......:D

I think you've described my wife. She's a millennial, get used to even more of it.

I love this bit from Louis CK about cell phones (NSFW):

https://vimeo.com/69662330

It was the V8 engine on wheeled skid that caught their attention.

At the recent Thanksgiving we went to my wife's nephew's house. He has two boys, and her other nephew has two boys. We walk in and all 4 boys are like zombies staring at cell phones or tablets.

Geezer voice: Why back in my day at Thanksgiving all the cousins all played in the back room with Lincoln logs and blocks and and imagination, and we were happy to have that! Geezer voice off

Getting it through the scanners was really something.

The scanner did pickup a broken ring and scoring on the #5 cylinder wall so it all worked out.

Shockingly #6, the bad cylinder, is OK, BUT the thrust bearing wasn't. More on that later.

I don't ever chit chat unless I'm laying on the couch with absolutely nothing on tv and nothing better to do. Otherwise, I'll take a vm or text and respond at my convenience. Once in a while I'll take a call while driving, but never without my bluetooth headset. And if it sounds like it's gonna be more than a two min. call, I pull over.

In an average month, I use about 20 talk minutes, send/receive about 30 text messages, and use 1 mb of data.

I have lunch daily with several people I'd describe as "insecure". They can tolerate about 20 minutes of conversation before turning to their phones. When they do, I get up and leave.

Different experience for me last Thursday...large family gathering (60-70), with oodles of younger relatives. Some serious brain power, athletes in the mix too ;). Over a four hour period, I saw exactly one cell phone pulled out...to confirm what Turkey tracks looked like...seriously! Everyone was outside, tossing a football, tumbling, etc. So there IS hope.

I was tied to a pager/bag phone then cell phone 24x7x365 for most of my corporate career, though I didn't actually get called THAT much. If you need to reach me now...I'll eventually get back to ya...might be a few hours though SmileWavy

lost mine a while back..

didn't miss it as I really don't use it or answer..
just replaced it to keep the Lady happy..
like the old one..
it often lays in the car for days on end..

Rika

Yes.

It also usually means they're socially inept

Being able to have a meaningful face to face conversation is becoming a "value added" or "competitve advantage" to hiring authorities. Mobile devices are removing people from reality and quickly diminishing their interpersonal skills.


The again, these are also the people putting themselves in 6-figure college debt for a $40k/yr job and demanding that student laons are too expensive... Yea, they're on another planet.

I got a smart phone in August - my girlfriend gave me her iPhone 4 when she replaced it with a 5. I'd been using the same Samsung flip phone for about 12 years (actually, I still haven't given it up) - it's a piece of crap, but I kind of like the thing. Obviously. I was tired of traveling and not having a usable phone overseas, and I wanted to get the iPhone into service before a trip to Yurrup. I was surprised at how easily one can get lured into certain habits - I saw them creeping in after about a week. I am at least an order of magnitude away, in terms of behavior, from typical millennial habits, but I can see how it happens if you grow up with it. Nonetheless, my girlfriend teases me about 'Pocket Precious' (iPad is 'Precious')

I type at 38 WPM on my phone. At this point it's easier and faster than a computer.

Fortunately I have the cheapest Samsung galaxy you can buy so I just text, call, and on the rare occasion check traffic or game scores or other non essentials...

I do my shopping and web browsing on my computer... just can't handle the tiny screen or trying to type on that same tiny screen.

Ticks me off when we are driving through beautiful country and my wife is glued to her phone... or when we go somewhere (like the strawberry festival) and everyone is looking at their phone instead of enjoying the day.

Back when I still had a corporate gig, I lost my personal cell....didn't phase me one bit and my g/f just couldn't comprehend....oh...it'll show up eventually or not ;)

Older Marine in my neighborhood found it in his old Mercedes he'd purchased that I was checking out after a week or so and called someone on my contact list to determine who it belonged to. Didn't have a land line at home by then either...What a NICE week it was SmileWavy

Oh yeah, my phone is DUMB...

I am a geek from the days of the Commodore Vic-16 and a cassette tape drive. I knew right away the 4K was not enough RAM so I bought the expansion memory and had 16K of RAM!

I resisted a smart phone for a long time. My 80 year old dad had a iPhone 1 and upgraded it to a 3G and gave me the old iPhone. I figured I would use it as a music player and toy only. I tasted the Kool-Aid and it was good. Shortly after I got it I had it activated and used it for a while. Now I have a 128 Gig Iphone 6S. I often go the entire day without using it. I know I have not used it at all when I go to turn off the home alarm system with my Iphone and the only message on it is that I activated the alarm that morning.

I lived without a call phone for over 50 years. I really can't imagine going back to no smart phone. I am certainly not addicted and could manage without it again. It is just so handy to have a dang nice camera, GPS, Internet access, music playback, email, calculator and much more device that will even make a phone call with me at all times.

I was a communications systems programmer and drove 10 million $ mainframes and high end networking gear (near a million each) for a living. Started my career in microcode development at RTP on processors similar to my Carrera and I can live in the binary world just fine too :D. My laptop locked up a few months ago, and if it weren't for some VERY cool trail cam videos on it, I'd probably just toss it and forget it...maybe I'll fix it, maybe I won't...it's old too :D. Typing this from an IPad I bought my mom several years that she never uses....

I "might" replace my laptop with a smart phone...maybe...if this POS IPad ever croaks, so maybe I'll join ya some day Glen SmileWavy

Smart phones and dumb people - look up

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY

Hey Bob....finally got around to viewing your video. Very powerful and absolutely spot on!

I love the part at 1:46....her rolled eyes expression is hilarious...and kind of sad at the same time.

Here is the embed for anyone else interested.....5 minutes that could preempt 1,000 times that.....or more.....

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