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Ultralight
10-26-15, 11:12am
http://www.boredpanda.com/portraits-holding-devices-removed-eric-pickersgill/

Very interesting set of photos! Check them out. SFW.
KayLR
10-26-15, 4:33pm
wow. thought-provoking.
Ultralight
10-26-15, 5:35pm
I am in the middle of a two year experiment of living without a cell phone or smart phone. I just have a home phone.

The amount of phubbing I see and personally experience is profoundly distressing! haha
herbgeek
10-26-15, 6:24pm
The last time I traveled for work- a couple of months ago- I went to the hotel bar to have dinner. I'm used to striking up casual conversations with other travelers. This time I noticed that Every Single Person had their face in their phone and no eye contact was ever made with anyone else. Well, at least the hotel had a nice view to the outside...
bekkilyn
10-26-15, 6:56pm
I'm sure people often think I'm on my phone, but I don't have a smartphone. I have an ipod touch with a kindle app. So all that time I'm on my "phone", I'm actually reading my book! Before ipod/kindle, I'd carry around a physical book with me everywhere.

I don't try to read in the middle of conversations though like people do all the time with checking their phones. After all, my book isn't going anywhere when I'm not looking at it. :)
Dhiana
10-26-15, 8:40pm
I'm sure people often think I'm on my phone, but I don't have a smartphone. I have an ipod touch with a kindle app. So all that time I'm on my "phone", I'm actually reading my book! Before ipod/kindle, I'd carry around a physical book with me everywhere.

I don't try to read in the middle of conversations though like people do all the time with checking their phones. After all, my book isn't going anywhere when I'm not looking at it. :)

+1
I'm the same as bekkilyn, always reading a book.

In every one of those photographs the electronic item could easily be replaced with books, newspapers, or magazines.
kally
10-26-15, 11:40pm
I had a phone for work that I used maybe 7 minutes a month. Now I am not working I have no cell phone. I just don`t want one. In an emergency someone will always have one I am sure.
Gardenarian
10-27-15, 12:39am
They could be reading, but more likely are checking email, texts, Tumbler, etc. ad nauseum.

It reminds me of an old Star Trek TNG episode, "The Game."

I have a smart phone and try to be discrete using it. I hope I don't turn into one of these zombies.

Of course, they could all be checking out SLF :)
ToomuchStuff
10-27-15, 12:56am
Makes me think of this:

http://www.amazingjokes.com/image/2015-10-17/Technology_makes_us_antisocial_


Evidently, the linking thing is broken, as well as no longer allowing images from ones photo album. Trying other
http://www.simplelivingforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1538&d=1445921595
SiouzQ.
10-27-15, 7:52am
They have a way of sucking you in, like asking someone "why do you climb the mountain? And the reply, "because it's there"...I had to replace my phone that had the little keyboard this past summer and now I have a fancy new Android that gets much better internet connection and it has sucked me in in a way that if I stand back and look at myself I have turned into one of those people...not during conversations or at dinner, but I do check it a lot because it's there...
Francie
10-27-15, 12:36pm
I have a cell phone that I wear on a lanyard around my neck. Otherwise I'd lose it. It's a phone. No other uses. And I seldom use it at all -- it's kind of an "emergency" thing. DH, however, has the fanciest cell phone he can get, and it does EVERYTHING. Which I take advantage of :D :D
Ultralight
10-27-15, 12:37pm
I had a phone for work that I used maybe 7 minutes a month. Now I am not working I have no cell phone. I just don`t want one. In an emergency someone will always have one I am sure.

Yes! I have been in this situation.
jp1
10-27-15, 5:16pm
I've always been like Toomuchstuff's photo. As a fairly introverted person the last thing I want to do on transit is interact with other people. And right now I'm at the airport bar typing this on my work iPad. (I had no emails to deal with. I wonder if the work email server is down...). I do occasionally have conversations with strangers but I also like using my waiting time to keep up with far flung friends or get work done. I'll probably do my expenses and enter my call reports in salesforce from this trip once I finish this message.
ToomuchStuff
10-27-15, 5:20pm
I think in most situations, you will find someone now, that has a cell phone, in an emergency. There are some scenario's that your not apt to run into people though. (traveling through a vastly uninhabited area, etc)
But there are non smart phone options, though harder and harder to find now. Because of my traveling for work and the lack of pay phones at the places I go, I decided to go with a cell phone a few years ago. (T-mobile prepaid) Three months of my old home price, at 50% taxes is what my cell costs me a year, average. So it saved me money, gave me back communication on the road (average maybe $10 a year via payphones, prior). It is a trade off.
bekkilyn
10-27-15, 6:17pm
It reminds me of an old Star Trek TNG episode, "The Game."


Ooh, I love that episode!