Up until a year a go, I had a "go phone" in my pocket. You know, the $20 Nokia based on tech from 7 years prior (aka. the drug dealer/burner phone/pay-as-you-go-POS). This was in my pocket for years as I tended to break phones every 18 months or so.
It's amazing how everyone around me was constantly looking at their phone all the fucking time. From my technology-hipster POV, it was easy to see how people were missing out on, or just plain ignoring where used to be common social interactions.
Then I got a bloody iPhone as an xmas gift. I've done my best to resist but... I don't think I could go back.
I still have the common courtesy to not bust out the phone when other people are in the room, but I've lost count the times Google Maps has saved my ass, or having a distraction has saved me from hours of boredom.
I think people forgot how to find balance between having the intorwebs in one's pocket, and not being an asshole.
It's amazing how everyone around me was constantly looking at their phone all the fucking time. From my technology-hipster POV, it was easy to see how people were missing out on, or just plain ignoring where used to be common social interactions.
Then I got a bloody iPhone as an xmas gift. I've done my best to resist but... I don't think I could go back.
I still have the common courtesy to not bust out the phone when other people are in the room, but I've lost count the times Google Maps has saved my ass, or having a distraction has saved me from hours of boredom.
I think people forgot how to find balance between having the intorwebs in one's pocket, and not being an asshole.