how abt you just getting real close to them and shouting:
“YOU’RE RUDE!”
This article is an extremely interesting read. There are a lot of good points in it. I also noticed that since I got my iPod Touch, I go to bed maybe 4-5 hours later than I would like to (read: insomnia). I find myself laying in bed watching TED talks or playing games or instant messaging. I’ve become a slave to this device and technology.
For my trip to London, I decided not to bring my Macbook Pro, my cell phone will be turned off, and I will use my iPod solely to listen to music, and to help me navigate. I am detaching myself completely for this vacation.
This is actually part of the reason why I do not own or have a smart phone. I spend 9 hours a day at work tied to email and a slave to clients. I can’t enjoy things I normally would if I am constantly checking Tumblr, Facebook, or Twitter.
I have a really basic phone that makes phone calls and receives and sends texts messages. That’s all I really need. If there’s some crazy pressing news, someone will usually text me. I can wait to get home to check the computer.
Don’t get me wrong, I want an iPad really badly, but this article raised a lot of good points. Also I’ve gotten directions and out of a rut by people with iPhones who helped me find directions. As much as I LOVE the ease and accessibility of technology, we are slaves to it. Every single person that I know that owns an iPhone is ALWAYS checking it, always looking at it, all the time because maybe…maybe…maybe…someone updated SOMETHING that is SO (in)significant that they need to check it right that second.
Probably not, I wish people interacted with each other more than they would with devices.
(link to article linked above from Caroline)
Yes, yes, YES. I have been really thinking about getting a smart phone for weeks now, just because I would love to stop looking up directions to places and writing them down on scraps of paper before I leave my office or home to head out to the LES, UWS, random Queens neighborhood for a sale, etc. But it’s obvious that more and more that people are constantly scanning their phones any moment there is a pause - at a bar, at dinner, at a concert. At a group dinner there will be at least one person checking their phone out at the table. I’ve got enough old-lady leanings as it is, but sometimes I want to say, “You’re being rude.”
