Smartphones have turned you all into **nts

whirlpool

I'm beyond sick of smartphones / tablets / phablets / social media and the absolutely horrific level of saturating advertising and marketing of them and how much almost the entire western world has been completely conned into believing these are vital to our daily lives. Bleedin ridiculous. Give up your pathetic "devices" and STOP falling for it!

I mean, would Apple/Samsung/HTC like to kindly f*** off now please?

Anyway, I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed this.

ChunkyLover_53

I agree 100%!









Posted from my Samsung Galaxy S4.

28064212

Posted to a social media site

Sent from my iPhone

Esoteric_

Bet you're just jealous 'cause you can't afford a smartphone/tablet.

Amirani

I was a **** long before my smartphone came along I'll have you know.

Liamalone

*kisses smartphone*

Duff

Bebo Luv might calm you down?

Peregrine

whirlpool wrote: »

Give up your pathetic "devices"

No thanks, I'm good.

MadsL

Can we designate socially pressured 'downtime'.

Like gigs. Forget the phone, enjoy the show.
Restaurants/pubs - how about talking to someone new.
Festivals - 3 days off com won't kill ya.

Smartphone detox zones. Let's make this a thing.

humbert

Damn those "devices" and our ability to access information and communicate with each other with an ease and convenience that was simply unimaginable even within living memory because some people you know are rude.

ballsymchugh

from David O'Doherty

remember before smartphones someone could say something they knew was false, but say it with such authority that it sounded true, like 'do you remember that episode of Emmerdale with Wesley Snipes?' and everyone would slowly nod their head and say Oh yeah!
can't do that now with google at your fingertips ruining everything

Scruffles

am not a fan of the way they have saturated the technology market either and had never believed windows coud get any worse until they decided to aim it at the touch screen/tablet market with windows eight,but there is a sound philosophy that never fails-dont buy or follow anything are not interested in, have always done this and am none the wiser of the latest crap.

Agricola

You have a point OP. We can all appreciate the usefullness of all this tech but it sometimes feels like its becoming as important as breathing. It was nice when people werent switched on 24/7.

Corvo

Feck that, I love them.

Betting with Paddy Power on the go, switching money from one bank account to another, using Shazam to wonder what that fantastic song I hear on the bus is, downloading my favourite magazines that I usually can't get hold of (football fanzines that used only be available at the stadiums), Sky News, checking football results, using it to record something at home that you forgot to Sky+ before leaving and playing games like Football Manager or The Walking Dead when sitting in a doctors waiting room.

Sure there are times when it should be out away and left there, but I think they are amazing!

Karl Stein

xxxXX~*♥ I lykd ur poast n den cryd ♥*~XXxxx

kjl

Right, I use my phone to check and return my emails when I'm on the road, am I a cnut??

Didn't used to mind but when on holidays with a group of friends and all I heard in every new place we went was "I'll see if their wifi's open." I'm online 15 hours a day when I'm at home, I went 10 days without using a phone, laptop or any internet access. If someone with as obvious an addiction for the last 10 years as me can go without then people with smartphones for the last year surely should be able to as well.

Femme_Fatale

whirlpool wrote: »

I'm beyond sick of smartphones / tablets / phablets / social media

Boards is social media. How have these devices turned us "all" into c*nts? People like them - they offer a lot of handy functions. They're advances in technology, which has been happening for many years now.

Those who claim to take issue with communications technology and lament "true conversation" need to put their money where their mouth is and get rid of the computer/laptop/mobile phone... but they won't.

IvaBigWun

ballsymchugh wrote: »

from David O'Doherty


remember before smartphones someone could say something they knew was false, but say it with such authority that it sounded true, like 'do you remember that episode of Emmerdale with Wesley Snipes?' and everyone would slowly nod their head and say Oh yeah!
can't do that now with google at your fingertips ruining everything

Brilliant

uberalles

Once you control the smart phone and it doesnt control you.
I set aside times when I leave the iphone behind.

Like when I go swimming, I leave it in the locker as Im waiting for the water proof cover to arrive.

Legs.Eleven

All I ask is people stop using them during conversations when we're out socialising. It's rude.

weisses

kjl wrote: »

Right, I use my phone to check and return my emails when I'm on the road, am I a cnut??

Some people do need "smart"phones

Ush1

Or just let people do what they want and don't worry about it?

_Redzer_

I was out nearly two weeks ago with a small group of friends before going to a nightclub, but for an hour and a half the majority of them were glued to their phones and snap chatting other people who were also out "having fun".

How sad are you if your idea of going out has you glued to your phone uploading pics and giving the false impression you're having a good time instead of putting down the phone and actually having one? Fucking nobs anyway. It's a bit pathetic if you think about it.

December2012

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

All I ask is people stop using them during conversations when we're out socialising. It's rude.

You should text them.

And tweet it.

And post it as your Facebook status.

lahalane

Don't hang around with ***** so OP. Problem solved. None of my close friends would be ignorant enough to behave like that, one of the reasons why they are my close friends. You just need to find better friends.

Earthwalker

I like them but I feckin refuse to call them smartphones. Until such times as when I am about to walk out of the house without it, or leave it in the back of a taxi, it has the ability to whistle and shout: "Oi, dickhead, don't forget me!", it ain't a "smart" phone at all.

Legs.Eleven

lahalane wrote: »

Don't hang around with ***** so OP. Problem solved. None of my close friends would be ignorant enough to behave like that, one of the reasons why they are my close friends. You just need to find better friends.

It's true. None of my friends carry on the way they do in that vid but if they did, I'd give them a chinese sun burn. :mad:

mike65

I wonder has anyone been killed yet due to a phone being shoved down their throat by someone in fit of rage.

Medic475

Liked and Shared!

Jhcx

Im still a little old school. I prefer to use my desktop for the interwebs. can google more faster. download more and then when im ready to hit the road send everything onto the mobile device, pause what im doing and return later.

God i love technology, which makes me a right c nt

dgt

Someone didn't get enough likes for that disease they posted up about on facebook and thus has vented their anger on here.... Clever

Billy86

I do get wound up in situations like at lunch in work when 6 people are sat around a table staring at their phones for 10-15 minutes without a single word being said, I've got to admit. They are amazing innovations and give us the ability to get so many small things done on the fly, be more time efficient, etc (or just kill boredom or "stay connected"), but some people are way over the top in their obsession with their phones.

I say that as someone with a smartphone. Well, A 'Samsung Galaxy Duos' so in truth more of a [learning impaired so as not to offend anyone, unlike that Meteor ad that's just so offensively discriminatory] phone but you get the point.

Sh1tbag OToole

Esoteric_ wrote: »

Bet you're just jealous 'cause you can't afford a smartphone/tablet.

Even the dogs on the street can afford them now..

old_aussie

See what you've done to me Nokia 3310, it's all your fault.

Iwasfrozen

whirlpool wrote: »

I'm beyond sick of smartphones / tablets / phablets / social media and the absolutely horrific level of saturating advertising and marketing of them and how much almost the entire western world has been completely conned into believing these are vital to our daily lives. Bleedin ridiculous. Give up your pathetic "devices" and STOP falling for it!

lol

wil

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Boards is social media. How have these devices turned us "all" into c*nts? People like them - they offer a lot of handy functions. They're advances in technology, which has been happening for many years now.

Those who claim to take issue with communications technology and lament "true conversation" need to put their money where their mouth is and get rid of the computer/laptop/mobile phone... but they won't.

I cant agree with that second paragraph.
I love tech, always have, but I dont enjoy when it takes over from reality.
and saying to get rid of... is nonsense. There is no reason why it shouldnt complement rather than replace social interaction.
We are long past the time when talking loudly on your phone was considered impolite and there was a move towards some form of phone etiquette. We are now in a different realm, eg you often have the usually older person announcing their shopping list or their sons endoscopy results to the world, or at the other extreme, retreating in to a 4 inch world of fb updates and candy crush.
Wall-e world is not far off.
Now the social etiquette has gone the other way, that even noticing a person is shouting, or attempt to engage in face to face conversation leads to glares.
Several times I've seen families sit at a restaurant table and immediately light up their phones. If they could eat off them they probably would.

Novelty value for some things should remain novelty, not become social norms. If food bloggers want to take pics of their soon to be reviewed dinner, fine, but why does everyone else think people care what they ate, saw or puked.

Boards as a social media is reasonably structured with some degree of positive interaction and composition. Yes there is plenty of evidence of the contrary, myself included but many other social media rely on a continuous stream of inane garbage to keep the bucks coming in. It's like the media equivalent of sweets and ice cream, not what you'd feed your kids, but what they'd choose for themselves.
Perhaps some people need RDA/calorie equivalents* for t'internet or plain old cop on.

(*to be consumed with a pinch of salt)

Caonima

I just use smartphone apps to get laid over here. We're spoiled for choice with apps like Wechat, MoMo, Badoo, QQ etc.

Does annoy me, though, seeing a group of people out together all on their phones, not speaking to each other.

playedalive

They are helpful but it's kind of worrying how we become more dependent on this technology, to the point that it's absolutely necessary and 'the norm'. It seems to be a given that you have a smartphone, whatsapp, viber and all these applications to communicate. Wouldn't free calls and texts be enough (some networks do offer price plans like this)

Having said that, I recently bought my first smartphone so let's see what I think later on

conorhal

kjl wrote: »

Right, I use my phone to check and return my emails when I'm on the road, am I a cnut??

If you're driving at the time*, yes, yes you are.....




*Seriously, I've seen people texting and e-mailing while driving, once while in car with sombody that drove OVER a roundabout as a result. Never took a lift from that dangerous cnut again!

DeanAustin

I hate the idea of smartphones, iPads etc. But then I realised that it's just me getting older. People who go down this road are part of the "it was better in my day brigade".

Look, I remember being young and my mother and father would say "Jaysus, life was better before telly, it's ruined conversation. We never needed it. People don't talk to each other." I'm sure before that it was radio and before that I'm sure twas something else.

Technology is a wonderful thing. It enables us to do things that seemed possitively space age in the 80s. The fact I hate it just means I hate the the world is moving on and I'm getting older. Happens to every generation.

jimgoose

While you can still turn them off at will I don't see smartphones (or ones that needed a few grinds to get them through...) as the work of Beelzebub or anything like that. To be honest I like the fast data modem on them that occasionally allows me to get some useful work done from quare places.

I don't have a Facebook - not interested, too much crap and too many vacuous pixieheads - and Twitter is pointless bollocks. I've always quite liked forums though, since back in the Elder Days of Usenet, and participate in a few.

conorhal

MadsL wrote: »

Can we designate socially pressured 'downtime'.

Like gigs. Forget the phone, enjoy the show.
Restaurants/pubs - how about talking to someone new.
Festivals - 3 days off com won't kill ya.

Smartphone detox zones. Let's make this a thing.

While I completely agre, good luck with that. At one point it was suggested that they put signal blockers in cinemas, but there was a worry that it might have a negative impact on business and you had people saying things like 'what if a doctor misses a call or there's an emergency in the theater!'....

...eh, then you walk out to the lobby and use your phone. What happened prior to 1995?

UCDVet

I totally disagree.

Maybe people aren't old enough to remember life before smart phones - but it wasn't a giant happy party.

Teenagers used to sit around, bored, and go, 'So, what do you want to do? I dunno, what do you want to do? This places sucks, there is nothing to do!'

Life isn't *that* interesting.

People weren't so lonely or friendly that they looked for any opportunity to chat with someone. If I were running and I saw a girl stretching for a run, do you know what I would say? NOTHING.

I don't know her
I'm going running
She's going running

I'll run and I let her run. I'll assume that if she wanted random guys chatting her up, she'd head down to a bar or club.

IRONICALLY - all of the communicating I do on Boards.ie - wouldn't have been possible in the 80s. Those kids with their cell phones are communicating with a lot more people than I did as a kid with my bicycle.

MJ23

Someone showing you all the apps they have on their phone. Go away you idiot.

BeerWolf

I'm a hipster, using THIS. Screw the mainstream!

:pac:

120_Minutes

whirlpool wrote: »

I'm beyond sick of smartphones / tablets / phablets / social media and the absolutely horrific level of saturating advertising and marketing of them and how much almost the entire western world has been completely conned into believing these are vital to our daily lives. Bleedin ridiculous. Give up your pathetic "devices" and STOP falling for it!

I mean, would Apple/Samsung/HTC like to kindly f*** off now please?

Anyway, I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed this.

U ok hun?

mathie

UCDVet wrote: »

I totally disagree.

Maybe people aren't old enough to remember life before smart phones - but it wasn't a giant happy party.

Teenagers used to sit around, bored, and go, 'So, what do you want to do? I dunno, what do you want to do? This places sucks, there is nothing to do!'

Life isn't *that* interesting.

People weren't so lonely or friendly that they looked for any opportunity to chat with someone. If I were running and I saw a girl stretching for a run, do you know what I would say? NOTHING.

I don't know her
I'm going running
She's going running

I'll run and I let her run. I'll assume that if she wanted random guys chatting her up, she'd head down to a bar or club.

IRONICALLY - all of the communicating I do on Boards.ie - wouldn't have been possible in the 80s. Those kids with their cell phones are communicating with a lot more people than I did as a kid with my bicycle.

Alanis?

sbsquarepants

If you had a few friends over to your house, or met them out in the pub or whatever and one or more of them instead of joining in, just sat there and read a book, even when you tried to drag a conversation out of them, you'd think what a rude prick.
It's no different with a phone, it's just plain rude - end of story.

Ush1

If a person in your company is constantly at their phone, maybe your company isn't that interesting to them?:)

simonmln

Everytime I go out with a group of mates now, all the phones are in the middle of the table and first one to touch them buys a round.