[rcooled]

"I can't live without it"...."It lets me keep up with work when I'm on vacation"...."It's priceless to me"

Wow...how quickly we all became addicted to these toys. It makes me wonder how the world ever got along up 'till now. Are smart phones convenient? Certainly! Do they make our lives easier? You bet! Are they fun? Sure they are! But are they NECESSARY to life? I hardly think so! Nowadays people can't sit still for 5 minutes without pulling out a phone to play with. Whatever happened to down time? And keeping up with work while you're on vacation...WTF is that all about? I always assumed that one took a vacation to forget about work for a while. I can't help thinking that we're all becoming like the Borg...part organism, part machine. Everyone is plugged into the "Collective" via their mobile devices. I do have a cell phone (not a "smart" one though) and I do use it...but if the whole system vanished tomorrow, I doubt that my life would be very much affected at all. And that's just the way I like it...