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Phone addiction. U haz it?

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My wife does. We get up in the morning first thing when she comes down in the morning is grabs her phone. Eating breakfast? On her phone. We car pool and I drive. She's on her phone. I take my daughter to the bus stop for school, she sits in the car on her phone. I drive home. She's on her phone. We get home, she's on her phone. While waiting for kids to get ready for bed. She's on her phone. Kids go to bed and we watch something on netflix, she's on her phone.

And when you try and call her on it she gets defensive. Try and get her to set it down and she gets anxious. If I so much as glance at mine I get called on it.

Yeah. The struggle is real.
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If your not exagerating thats ridiculous. If theres no talking to her about it I'd cancel the service on it. If she threw a fit divorce time whats the point of having a wife if all she does is play on her phone. Shes probably texting her lover the whole time anyway.
 
vi edit said:
My wife watches (more like half ass listens) to TV while face down playing games on her phone. It was candy crush, then some number sliding one, now it's some food chef thing with different restaurant types.

I can't do that. My brain can focus on one thing at a time incredibly well. Introduce a second thing and I can't do anything with either.
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Yep, I'm the same way. When it comes to TV/Computer/Anything hobby related I'm usually focused on it and get aggravated if I'm interrupted.

Now watching TV while doing menial/boring tasks is something I'm completely okay with and have been known to do.
 
BlitzPuppet said:
Yep, I'm the same way. When it comes to TV/Computer/Anything hobby related I'm usually focused on it and get aggravated if I'm interrupted.

Now watching TV while doing menial/boring tasks is something I'm completely okay with and have been known to do.
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My way of unwinding after work is to watch tv while playing a time waster game or surfing the net. I don't think that is out of the ordinary.
 
rudeguy said:
I make it a point to not use my phone in public. That's why I love my Android Wear watch. I can check my notifications without taking my phone out of my pocket.
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Exactly. On the rudeness scale checking your watch is better than checking your phone, even though with Wear its the same thing.

It is like how a Surface Pro gets around the whole you have to drag your laptop out at airports.
 
<--- not addicted to his phone

My phone is sitting on the dining room table, where I left it 3 or 4 days ago when I noticed it needed to be recharged. Battery is dead. After my wife tries to contact me a couple of times (usual message is something like, "when you get home, I want you to...") and realizes it's dead, she'll charge it up for me. Then, she'll give it to me and say "carry it." A few days later, it'll be dead again and I can repeat the process.
 
Yesterday, middle of snowstorm on my way to work, see guy sitting in middle of intersection because he tried to make a yellow light too late, realized he was way too late and stopped. See him start backing up, backs up a few feet and stops, still fully in the intersection. As I drive past him I see the him holding his phone next to his face like he is on the couch watching TV or something. I don't believe in God but at that moment I prayed pretty hard for a fuel truck to T-Bone that POS.
 
dank69 said:
Yesterday, middle of snowstorm on my way to work, see guy sitting in middle of intersection because he tried to make a yellow light too late, realized he was way too late and stopped. See him start backing up, backs up a few feet and stops, still fully in the intersection. As I drive past him I see the him holding his phone next to his face like he is on the couch watching TV or something. I don't believe in God but at that moment I prayed pretty hard for a fuel truck to T-Bone that POS.
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Was his seat leaned back like a wanna be? That'd be my idiot buddy its not the phone hes stoned out of his mind and half retarded to begin with.
 
My favorite is when I get a call and tell them I'm about to have a meeting and they stop for a full second before saying, "Well, I could call you later..." Gee, ya think?
 
I have a Tracphone for emergencies. Except I never take it with my anywhere except to work. Half the time it's dead because I forget to turn it off and don't use it enough to remember to charge it up.

Friends find it weird that as techy as I am, that I don't use a cell nor any gadgets when outside of my house. Don't even listen to MP3's to mow the lawn. It's like when I go anywhere, the need or want to use gadgets of any sort never come to mind nor would I feel comfortable doing so. I feel naked without observing my environment constantly.
 
vi edit said:
My wife does. We get up in the morning first thing when she comes down in the morning is grabs her phone. Eating breakfast? On her phone. We car pool and I drive. She's on her phone. I take my daughter to the bus stop for school, she sits in the car on her phone. I drive home. She's on her phone. We get home, she's on her phone. While waiting for kids to get ready for bed. She's on her phone. Kids go to bed and we watch something on netflix, she's on her phone.

And when you try and call her on it she gets defensive. Try and get her to set it down and she gets anxious. If I so much as glance at mine I get called on it.

Yeah. The struggle is real.
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I feel your pain. Same situation here.
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
My favorite is when I get a call and tell them I'm about to have a meeting and they stop for a full second before saying, "Well, I could call you later..." Gee, ya think?
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What I hate is fuckin' call waiting. If I'm talking to someone on the line, nothing is more important than that call unless there's an arrow in flight coming towards my head, and that hasn't happened yet. I'll be talking to someone, and the phone starts announcing shit, and interrupting the conversation I'm having. It should be silent, and go directly to voicemail. If it's important, they'll leave a message.

My phone service is supplied by work, and call waiting is hardcoded on through the master account settings. Every so often I look for a hack to get around it, but so far I've come up blank. There may be something on Google Play, but I don't use that.
 
vi edit said:
My wife does. We get up in the morning first thing when she comes down in the morning is grabs her phone. Eating breakfast? On her phone. We car pool and I drive. She's on her phone. I take my daughter to the bus stop for school, she sits in the car on her phone. I drive home. She's on her phone. We get home, she's on her phone. While waiting for kids to get ready for bed. She's on her phone. Kids go to bed and we watch something on netflix, she's on her phone.

And when you try and call her on it she gets defensive. Try and get her to set it down and she gets anxious. If I so much as glance at mine I get called on it.

Yeah. The struggle is real.
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#marriedlife
 
vi edit said:
My wife does. We get up in the morning first thing when she comes down in the morning is grabs her phone. Eating breakfast? On her phone. We car pool and I drive. She's on her phone. I take my daughter to the bus stop for school, she sits in the car on her phone. I drive home. She's on her phone. We get home, she's on her phone. While waiting for kids to get ready for bed. She's on her phone. Kids go to bed and we watch something on netflix, she's on her phone.

And when you try and call her on it she gets defensive. Try and get her to set it down and she gets anxious. If I so much as glance at mine I get called on it.

Yeah. The struggle is real.
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Yeah, my wife does also to a degree.

Watch a movie sometimes at night I hear beep, bop, boop etc, shes got the phone out doing face book or something.

I do not even carry one myself.
 
I just got my very first smartphone Saturday, since it was cheaper to do so and get on a new plan than stick with my old overpriced AT&T plan. It's pretty fun to be able to read ATOT in the lab during a short waiting step instead of having to walk over to my office, get on the laptop, and come back. Also, got a Gameboy emulator so I can relive the good elementary school days, playing Pokemon under the covers. No one outside of my family knows, however, so I'm hoping I can still get by without ever sending a text message.
 
rudeguy said:
I make it a point to not use my phone in public. That's why I love my Android Wear watch. I can check my notifications without taking my phone out of my pocket.
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The wearable Android device is the flask of phone addiction. You aren't fooling anyone, and even if you were, all we assume is that the idiot fiddling with his wrist is too stupid to use a watch properly, which is honestly worse than being glued to your smartphone.
 
A man's brain is like a waffle, a woman's brain is like a plate of spaghetti.

Men can only think of one thing at a time. They are trapped in the single waffle square where they are currently working and they need to leave that square and move into a new one to do anything else.

Women's minds are like spaghetti. Their thoughts are intertwined and all linked in one big jumble. They can do 17 things at one time and jump from one task to the next easily.

This means a man will get lost in his immediate task (phone) from time to time, but women are much more likely to multitask to the point that their phone is a constant companion while doing other tasks all day long.

My daughters and my wife are to the point that they can't really sit for, say, 90 minutes and watch a movie and devote their entire time to it. They will have their phones in their hands and check them constantly. They are watching the movie, replying to texts, emailing, looking at facebook, pintrest, playing a game for 5 minutes. Even at the theater my wife still has her phone in her hand the entire time, same thing in the bathroom.

My son and I can't do that. We are far more likely to get lost in a movie and burn dinner if we don't set a timer. I'll have the TV on while I am on the computer, but if something comes up that requires concentration I have to turn the TV off to do so. I only own a dumb phone for the exact reason that the compulsion to constantly check a smartphone would drive me crazy.
 
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These days it shouldn't be referred to as a phone. When it just does telephone stuff and nothing else, sure. But I spend more time using the fucker to take pictures, play Sudoku, email and even listening to music more than actually talking.

Actually, I probably could lose the voice service.
 
Yes but is the addiction harmful? Physically? Socially?

I hope when you guys say that you keep yours in a pocket most of the time, you mean the pocket of a holster or bag that keeps it at a distance from your body.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2029493,00.html

...The warnings stem from an odd quirk in federal testing procedures designed to ensure the safety of cellular phones. In 2001, the FCC released a set of guidelines for manufacturers that required all cell phones sold in the U.S. to emit a specific absorption rate (SAR) of not more than 1.6 watts of radio-frequency energy per kilogram of body tissue, a standard deemed safe given the state of scientific knowledge about thermal harm from radio-frequency waves. The standard was considered a so-called worst-case scenario, accounting for the energy emitted when the phone was transmitting at full power all of its various signals &#8212; such as Bluetooth, wi-fi and cellular. But the FCC testing regulations notably chose not to simulate a situation in which the phone was broadcasting at full power while inside a shirt or pants pocket flush against the body, an odd oversight given the known habits of many cellular-phone users. As a matter of physics, radio-frequency energy generally increases sharply as distance is reduced. "The exposure is definitely related to distance," says Cleveland.

According to the 2001 FCC guidelines, testing of the device in a "body-worn" configuration should be done with the device in a belt clip or holster. If a belt clip or holster was not supplied with the phone, the FCC told testers to assume a separation distance of between 0.59 inches and 0.98 inches (1.5 cm to 2.5 cm) from the body during a test.

"Clearly if it's tested in a holster, it's only guaranteed to be compliant if it's used with a holster," says one current FCC official familiar with these issues, who asked not to be identified by name. "Clearly a lot of people weren't aware of this, and it probably does need to be addressed." Some phones come with a holster included, while others, including Apple's iPhone 4, are not sold with holsters.
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Phone addiction. U haz it?

I can't stop playing that new app Measles Party on my smartphone. Pretty soon my phone will be the only smart one between the two of us.
 
Nearly 20 percent of young adult smartphone owners in the U.S. between the ages of 18 and 34 use their smartphones during sex
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Yeah, but I doubt they're texting their friends. GF and I used my smartphone during sex, specifically it's video functionality. And the only copy of the product is contained within a truecrypt volume behind a 40 character password on an air-gapped drive, you sick fucks. 🙂
 
DrPizza said:
<--- not addicted to his phone

My phone is sitting on the dining room table, where I left it 3 or 4 days ago when I noticed it needed to be recharged. Battery is dead. After my wife tries to contact me a couple of times (usual message is something like, "when you get home, I want you to...") and realizes it's dead, she'll charge it up for me. Then, she'll give it to me and say "carry it." A few days later, it'll be dead again and I can repeat the process.
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God. Are you an old man, or just practising to be one some day?
 
I am older and the only thing I use my cell phone for is to make phone calls and maybe two times a week a text message.
 
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