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Is your phone making you miserable?

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  • #32
    chrissb8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    Koala Sunshine wrote: »
    I think the rise in rates of depression this decade is caused in part by smartphones and social media. People are om their phones for hours everyday. In order to be functioning well emotionally and mentally people need to spend time in a state of presence. Too much thinking and rationalising disconnects people from their body. You need to be able to look at a tree or a sunset and just observe, without labelling and comparing. Just observe the detail of the tree or the sunset as you notice the feelings in your bed, your breath etc. Don't judge it, don't label it or conpare what you see.

    This is so true, people are always constantly "on" as it were. Taking in information processing it and then ultimately thinking on it. A constant thing continuously like that is bad.

    This too much gets you caught in your own head. People need to learn to be bored and just let their mind wander off or do some of it's own thinking by itself.


  • #33
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm 40 and still use PAYG. :D

    I only changed because I wanted an smartphone and I am totally broke. :D €30 a month bill which people told me I would breach every month. Five months in and on only one month have I gone over and that was by €0.01.

    It helps that I'm housebound due to illness so that I mainly just keep the mobile data switched off and use my own WiFi. That said, if I could work, I'd have plumped for higher than a €30 a month contract. I'd need it!


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,714 ✭ [Deleted User]


    diceyreilly wrote: »
    Yes, bill is a rip off.

    Its not, bill pay plans when in contract for a phone are obvioulsy more expensive as you are paying for your phone also but sim only bill pay plans are cheap and no messing around having to buy credit or running out etc.


  • #35
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    No my phone doesn't make me miserable as I don't let it control too much of my life.
    Every now and again I'll throw it on silent for the evening and chill out by myself.
    Christopher Unkempt Passover wrote: »
    Its not, bill pay plans when in contract for a phone are obvioulsy more expensive as you are paying for your phone also but sim only bill pay plans are cheap and no messing around having to buy credit or running out etc.
    I top up by €20 and get unlimited texts to any network for 28 days and more data than I can use.
    After it runs out I go through my credit and when that runs out then I've to go to the shop for more.
    I don't think I'd class having to go to the shop for credit every month and a half or so as messing around.

    Sure I can buy milk and coffee while I'm there.

    I also only use the data on my phone when I'm forced to so my battery life is around five days before I've to recharge.


  • #36
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,807 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    aaronjumper wrote: »
    No my phone doesn't make me miserable as I don't let it control too much of my life.
    Every now and again I'll throw it on silent for the evening and chill out by myself.

    I top up by €20 and get unlimited texts to any network for 28 days and more data than I can use.
    After it runs out I go through my credit and when that runs out then I've to go to the shop for more.
    I don't think I'd class having to go to the shop for credit every month and a half or so as messing around.

    Sure I can buy milk and coffee while I'm there.

    I also only use the data on my phone when I'm forced to so my battery life is around five days before I've to recharge.

    You can also top up online/at the ATM or over the phone!


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  • #37
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    You can also top up online/at the ATM or over the phone!
    Pfffft. Get out of my cave you technological genius!


  • #38
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,803 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Christopher Unkempt Passover wrote: »
    no messing around having to buy credit or running out etc.

    You might have a problem alright if you are on top of a mountain nowhere near a shop/atm. Of course if you are unable to keep track of your top ups then that is another matter entirely.


  • #39
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Miserable? I tend to forget about my phone most days...

    Most people I know use my landline or various apps which I only have on my Ipad/PC. I don't like facebook or other such connections type sites.



    I'm 40 and still use PAYG. :D

    Howya, Nidge!


  • #40
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    I was looking for a phone and then I got one and heaven knows I'm miserable now.


  • #41
    jonon9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭jonon9


    No I use my phone as a tool thats it.


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