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Smartphones have turned you all into **nts

  • 05-09-2013 11:11PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭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.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 901 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover_53


    I agree 100%!









    Posted from my Samsung Galaxy S4.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,255 ✭✭✭✭Esoteric_


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


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Liamalone


    *kisses smartphone*


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Duff


    Bebo Luv might calm you down? <3


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,409 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    whirlpool wrote: »
    Give up your pathetic "devices"

    No thanks, I'm good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 955 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭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!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


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


  • Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 836 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,787 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 61 ✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 290 ✭✭Medic475


    Liked and Shared! :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭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


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