Ron Beaufort
Lifetime Supporting Member
quote from PLC Pie Guy about smart phone addiction ...
true personal story ...
my wife and I were eating dinner at a local restaurant a while back ... the waitress came over and said something like this, "Please don't take this the wrong way – but I mean it as a compliment. I've been working here for several months – and you are the FIRST couple I have seen who actually sit and talk with each other. Everyone else drags out their little smart phones as soon as they sit down - and then they start poking and sliding around all the way through dinner."
the only phone I have (and probably will EVER have) is a little flip phone – and I keep the texting feature disabled on it ... my wife has a smart phone so that she can keep up with her friends (they all insist on texting) ... I absolutely refuse to let her even look at the darn thing while we're at the table ... and neither one of us are on Facebook, etc. ...
so – 28 years of being happily married - and counting ... life is lovely ...
also from PLC Pie Guy ...
be careful what you ask for ...
Tucker Carlson Show: Smartphones make kids dumber, less happy
https://video.foxnews.com/v/5997169910001/#sp=show-clips
and a couple more recent news articles ...
Paul Batura: 'Zombie Eating' is a sure sign of a coming social apocalypse
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/paul-batura-zombie-eating-family-screen-time-smartphone-device
Dr. Siegel on why teens are 'growing horns' from prolonged cellphone use
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/teens-growing-horns-cell-phone-use-dr-marc-siegel
party on ...
I cant stand this. Its not even that they feel the need. Its just all they know. If they didn't exist on the internet then they don't exist in real life.
We have a 20 something here now who wants to be something, however, he cant look away from it for 10 minutes. He even knows its not allowed but....
This bull*** is even infiltrating my own home regardless of my threats to ban all things digital that don't relate to work. I try to teach my kid (and wife) that its a TOOl, that is all, nothing more. but it seems that I am the only one in my world preaching this. Why the school allows them to have devices at an elementary school level anyway makes no sense to me. My kid doesn't have one, but defiantly has access to one through his peers. He doesn't have internet or violent games at home but damn well knows all about stupid things like Fortnight and Five Nights at Freddy's. Getting a bit OT here but just saying that this madness has to stop. Its de-evolving the human brain.
A person shouldn't feel alone 90% of the time while sitting in a room with other people as this is going on continuously. In the Dr Office, In the grocery store, at work, at the school concert, before the movie, during the movie, the guy driving the big rig on the highway after the movie. Its sad!
true personal story ...
my wife and I were eating dinner at a local restaurant a while back ... the waitress came over and said something like this, "Please don't take this the wrong way – but I mean it as a compliment. I've been working here for several months – and you are the FIRST couple I have seen who actually sit and talk with each other. Everyone else drags out their little smart phones as soon as they sit down - and then they start poking and sliding around all the way through dinner."
the only phone I have (and probably will EVER have) is a little flip phone – and I keep the texting feature disabled on it ... my wife has a smart phone so that she can keep up with her friends (they all insist on texting) ... I absolutely refuse to let her even look at the darn thing while we're at the table ... and neither one of us are on Facebook, etc. ...
so – 28 years of being happily married - and counting ... life is lovely ...
also from PLC Pie Guy ...
I'd like to see an academic comparison of kids in this age compared to kids at the same level in the pre-internet days in things like reading and writing.
be careful what you ask for ...
Tucker Carlson Show: Smartphones make kids dumber, less happy
https://video.foxnews.com/v/5997169910001/#sp=show-clips
and a couple more recent news articles ...
Paul Batura: 'Zombie Eating' is a sure sign of a coming social apocalypse
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/paul-batura-zombie-eating-family-screen-time-smartphone-device
Dr. Siegel on why teens are 'growing horns' from prolonged cellphone use
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/teens-growing-horns-cell-phone-use-dr-marc-siegel
party on ...
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