Social If you had the opportunity for this major life change, would you...

[USA!USA!]

Would you stop using a smart phone for the rest of your life if you had the opportunity to do so? (Would love to make this a poll but I have no idea how lol)

Many of us cannot as we have been sucked into the corporate BS of always having access to work, emails, etc.

But.. if there was a government mandate that forced employers to not make employees carry smart devices at all times, and it was no longer the norm.. would you get off the train? I know some have already.

There are major benefits of smart devices of course.. but do they outweigh the negative? Social skills are dying, stress is increasing, social media engulfs many people's lives, contact with work is 24/7..

If you had the choice... would you leave it all behind?

My answer used to always be no of course not.. but the older I get, I am leaning more and more to yes.. and yearn for the days of yore, before smartphones invaded our society.. where you actually saw your friends more often in person, and talked to people instead of doom-scrolling your life away..

 

[Mike]

I wish we could turn the clock back to how the world used to be, but I don't see it happening.

 

[Natural Order]

I'd go right the fuck back to these in a heartbeat:

 

[method115]

No I love smartphones. Sucks some people can't handle it but I can and it's done nothing but enhance my life. I remember one time there was a huge line to buy tickets into a cave and a smaller line. I purchased the tickets online while waiting in the long ass line and was able to skip through the smaller line which was for people who already had tickets.

 

[Natural Order]

No I love smartphones. Sucks some people can't handle it but I can and it's done nothing but enhance my life. I remember one time there was a huge line to buy tickets into a cave and a smaller line. I purchased the tickets online while waiting in the long ass line and was able to skip through the smaller line which was for people who already had tickets.

Incredible. Make sure that anecdote makes it into your obituary.

 

[HHJ]

lol

Its completley on YOU on how much you use the smart phone.

So just impose your own self discipline instead of REEEEEEEEEE'ing about something that aint never gonna happen.

 

[method115]

Also who wants to go back to the days when women couldn't send you picks of their tits? No thanks.

 

[Pittie Petey]

I'm not going back to the days of T9 text bullshit, hella tapa tapa tapa 27 times just to spell one word, fuck that, I'd die first!

 

[USA!USA!]

lol

Its completley on YOU on how much you use the smart phone.

So just impose your own self discipline instead of REEEEEEEEEE'ing about something that aint never gonna happen.

Not quite.. as I mentioned, many of us have to use it for work and they have access to us 24/7 now through emails.. where in the past when you clocked out you were done for the day.

Constant access from employers is not great.. even if you don't use the phone socially.

 

[USA!USA!]

Also who wants to go back to the days when women couldn't send you picks of their tits? No thanks.

Rather see them in person lol

 

[HHJ]

Not quite.. as I mentioned, many of us have to use it for work and they have access to us 24/7 now through emails.. where in the past when you clocked out you were done for the day.

Constant access from employers is not great.. even if you don't use the phone socially.

I suppose it depends. But even when I have access to my work emails (luckily right now, I dont but have had in the past) i turn notifications on that shit off. I dont owe motherfuckers dick when i aint on the clock.

 

[method115]

I suppose it depends. But even when I have access to my work emails (luckily right now, I dont but have had in the past) i turn notifications on that shit off. I dont owe motherfuckers dick when i aint on the clock.

Yea I have my emails setup and I even look at them. It doesn't mean I'm doing anything beyond that.

 

[USA!USA!]

Yea I have my emails setup and I even look at them. It doesn't mean I'm doing anything beyond that.

Guess it depends on your employer and work environment.

I get messages from my work messaging app at night all the time from the try-hards at work. It is incredibly annoying.. like don't you have a life outside of work? Message me in the morning.

 

[lsa]

No since I need it for doing bank stuff, paying bills, work, and on and on.
Its impossible to live here with out a smartphone..
Social media on the other hand... I have zero.
I use one app on my free time, and its a sports app.

Its easy to cut down on the phone time.. just do it

 

[aerius]

Already did it. Pulled the SIM from my smartphone the day I retired and all it is now is a fancy music player and alarm clock.

 

[Natural Order]

The internet has taken away all mystery and effort.

Life is now fully exposed (oversaturated and excessive to boot!) in every aspect from the moment you can hold a phone, when the fun of growing up was learning things incrementally in weird and wonderful ways. Feel sad for those who didn't experience life before this slavery.

 

[Bacco]

I hate 99 things of today, but smartphone it's not one lol, useful tool

 

[Spounman]

Would you stop using a smart phone for the rest of your life if you had the opportunity to do so? (Would love to make this a poll but I have no idea how lol)

Many of us cannot as we have been sucked into the corporate BS of always having access to work, emails, etc.

But.. if there was a government mandate that forced employers to not make employees carry smart devices at all times, and it was no longer the norm.. would you get off the train? I know some have already.

There are major benefits of smart devices of course.. but do they outweigh the negative? Social skills are dying, stress is increasing, social media engulfs many people's lives, contact with work is 24/7..

If you had the choice... would you leave it all behind?

My answer used to always be no of course not.. but the older I get, I am leaning more and more to yes.. and yearn for the days of yore, before smartphones invaded our society.. where you actually saw your friends more often in person, and talked to people instead of doom-scrolling your life away..

I think anyone has the choice to stop using a smart phone. I have one however, I feel like society in general was better before smart phones. I'd say my prime was with my flip phone before 2010.

 

[USA!USA!]

I think anyone has the choice to stop using a smart phone.

Like mentioned, I use it for work..

I mean I guess technically you are right if you are OK with quitting your job and changing your career lol

 

[philcrow]

More help than harm for me. I like having a world atlas in my pocket. I like being able to troubleshoot repairs with video instructionals right next to whatever I'm fixing. I like being able to fuck off at work and getting paid to post here or watch sports or whatever else even after they killed the internet. I like being able to plan stuff outside of work while at work, and if work calls for OT when I'm off, I just don't answer.