I am totally convinced now...Cellphones have made kids socially retarded

[refujiunderground]

sometimes, i think smart phones are smarter than some people. how does a damn device control you like that where it's using you more than you're using it.

 

[Beachguyj]

It really has and the texting is ridic unless you just need to convey a short message, but it's not for conversations.

 

[JayHawk]

Perhaps if someone is looking at their phone while talking to you it is a silent hint to step up or your game or get to the point..... bwahahahahhahah


Wait RB you hired a gurl to mow the lawn..... what are you thinking? There is little chance she will pull her soaked with sweat teeshirt off that sexy body and dab the forehead.... and if she did you wouldnt wanna look.....

 

[xbuzzerx]

Perhaps if someone is looking at their phone while talking to you it is a silent hint to step up or your game or get to the point..... bwahahahahhaha

It has nothing to do with boring someone over to looking at their phone in desperation. Sometimes just seeing what they're doing when you pull up will already tell you how it's going to go.

 

[G-Lexington]

Perhaps if someone is looking at their phone while talking to you it is a silent hint to step up or your game or get to the point..... bwahahahahhahah

I've always assumed this to be the case. If they reach for their phone while I'm talking to them, it means I'm failing to connect with them. It's saying "Well, you're not engaging me, so I'll find something that does." And I can either work harder to try to engage them, or disengage.

Lex

 

[JayHawk]

It has nothing to do with boring someone over to looking at their phone in desperation. Sometimes just seeing what they're doing when you pull up will already tell you how it's going to go.

I'm just busting your balls. I agree socially. Business wise it depends on what all they have their fingers into and what they monitor at any given moment. I have worked with some of the most compelling and warm individuals who through necessity are doing five things at once and still manage to ask questions of each that are deep and obviously completely connected to what is going on in the conversation.

 

[Audio Tech]

I see this a lot. I do have a cell phone.... in fact I had one when usually only movie producers could afford one. They were pretty big back then... LOL!

But nowadays I still keep a cell phone. Only catch is that's it's JUST a phone, and it's pre-paid. I figured out years ago that I won't be a slave to a little device, nor an $80/month bill. For.... what??

I went to lunch with a few people I worked with.... I could not believe that we all sat at the same table and they were TEXTING each other instead of talking.

We are SCREWED as a society.

 

[xbuzzerx]

I'm just busting your balls. I agree socially. Business wise it depends on what all they have their fingers into and what they monitor at any given moment. I have worked with some of the most compelling and warm individuals who through necessity are doing five things at once and still manage to ask questions of each that are deep and obviously completely connected to what is going on in the conversation.

"OH YEAH I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN, THIS ONE TI......" *eyes shift to phone. Thumb lifts up to phone as eyes scan back and forth*

-- six seconds later--

"OH UM YEAH SO THIS GUY.."

 

[JayHawk]

I've always assumed this to be the case. If they reach for their phone while I'm talking to them, it means I'm failing to connect with them. It's saying "Well, you're not engaging me, so I'll find something that does." And I can either work harder to try to engage them, or disengage.

Lex

Yeah... i would agree on a date or at a first meeting. i know plenty of people have no social grace as well but sometimes it could be more important. For instance, when my Mom was in the hospital, anything coming from Cincinnati was engaged regardless of who i was talking to....

So is it bad to look or do people just get upset when you respond?

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"OH YEAH I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN, THIS ONE TI......" *eyes shift to phone. Thumb lifts up to phone as eyes scan back and forth*

-- six seconds later--

"OH UM YEAH SO THIS GUY.."

Thats just a tar tar ---- me being politically incorrect and physical disability insensitive.

 

[Kulindahr]

Maybe they thought a). you could be not at home or b). you may not be able to hear someone knocking?

I usually do that, I mean. Because somehow knocking does not always work, I usually give the person a call to tell them I'm about to reach his/her place.

If I'm going somewhere for a job, I'll also call ahead.

But in terms of getting calls, I'll just look at my phone to see who it is (though outside the light rarely allows me to read the screen). And I'm unapologetic for looking, because the reason I got a cell in the first place was so my elderly parents could call in case of need, and until my mom follows my dad in departure, I only ignore my phone if I've first called her and let her know I'll be doing so. I always take calls from her, though also from the doctor.

 

[backagain]

Instead of using technology as a tool, we have allowed it to alter the the way we live. I often wonder why they call it "social media". There is nothing "social" about talking to a machine and reading words on a screen. Sad. Eventually this avoiding human face to face contact will be our undoing. Technology cannot replace the human dynamic.

Kind of ironic.

 

[palbert]

But Lewis. You aren't standing 15 feet away from my door. And if you can send a messenger...we'd love to send one back.

Why let them get that far? They call me to open the gate. I'd rather be bothered by the phone than certain sects, and others.

If you are uninvited and unexpected you are also unwelcome

~Ann Landers

(Whatever the hell the tilde means.)

 

[peeonme]

I just upgraded to a smart phone today, I am now ready to scream, but as all old farts do I will figure the damn thing out.
I have to agree with your point, I asked myself if the guys at work can fuck without a phone in their hands, how do they wipe their asses?
They can't put the damn things down.

 

[Scealle]

Well this is one of the many reasons why I still refuse to give in and change my 7 years old phone. Kids these days don't even put down their gadgets when their parents talk to them. It's apparently so when rink mum brings their kids to practice and they spend more than an hour of their time playing their gadgets.

 

[whitedavo]

Y'all are old as fuck. I didn't get my first cell phone until I was 22 or 23 and they had already become mainstream by the time I was 18. I don't begrudge anyone who has one and have found it easier to stay in contact with and contact people.

The only thing I've noticed is that most of the people I text with have atrocious spelling and grammar. It's not abbreviation diarrhea either. It's enough to make me think that they defiantly[sic] have problems with there[sic] understanding of English.

 

[Telstra]

So for the first time in my life...someone has stood outside our house and called to tell me that they were here to mow the lawn instead of just knocking on the door. I've seen a big change over the last ten years in how the kids who mow our lawns interact socially...we have gone from the sweet and outgoing kid who felt perfectly comfortable knocking and then walking in to the house to get a drink or use the bathroom or to make his own lunch, to a series of increasingly disconnected teenagers who don't ever unplug from their I-Brain or stop texting to whoever they haven't texted for the last 5 minutes and would never step inside the house.

It is almost impossible now to get anyone under the age of 25 in our office to interact with real humans and harder and harder to get them to cold call anyone. This week I blew up at one of the 'shy' young interns who didn't call as I had asked but sent an email and thought it was okay because the other person hadn't responded for two days to a question that needed answering the moment I asked it.

Rant over.

ahh don't be too harsh on the texting generation.
I think texting for business is clearer because it is in writing, therefore no mis-understanding and you can read back to prove who says what .

By the way, i prefer texting because i'm a stutterer LOL

 

[xbuzzerx]

ahh don't be too harsh on the texting generation.
I think texting for business is clearer because it is in writing, therefore no mis-understanding and you can read back to prove who says what .

By the way, i prefer texting because i'm a stutterer LOL

The number of times I've seen people with a major dispute over the terms of a contract present their text messages in People's Court would seem to dispute that.

 

[Telstra]

The number of times I've seen people with a major dispute over the terms of a contract present their text messages in People's Court would seem to dispute that.

I never had any dispute.
If a quote is $100, it can't be changed to $200 after everything is agreed on.

 

[palbert]

The number of times I've seen people with a major dispute over the terms of a contract present their text messages in People's Court would seem to dispute that.

But "You have the law on your side."

 

[darden]

there's a place for everything... given the choice, I always prefer to communicate at work via email or IM. not because I hate the phone, but because it gives me a written record of everything said, that I can save forever and run searches against whenever needed.

of course, when an immediate response is needed, calling is the way to go.

that said, cold calls are awful no matter what. worst job I ever had was cold call sales.