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PostSat Oct 31, 2015 8:58 pm 
Waterman wrote:
Leave phone off, buried deep in the pack. Anything else that's beeps or chirps,leave it home.
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PostSat Oct 31, 2015 9:30 pm 
I can't do anything but talk on my dumbphone. Nor do I have any of those chirper beeper things. I do have unleashed dogs. biggrin.gif

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PostSun Nov 01, 2015 2:13 am 
Nothing like going on a date and she's checking her....stocks? Next..... lol.gif

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PostSun Nov 01, 2015 8:47 pm 
saddened today at lunch at my favorite hot pot place dad mom 2 daughters, perhaps 12 and 6 dad was talking with the girls, and it appeared the dad and oldest daughter were playing some kind of game on her phone. Lots of laughing and chatter, older girl shared with younger girl Mom, the whole time, facebooking on her phone, never talked to the girls. she will probably be confused when the older girl, 4 years from now, wants nothing to do with her and goes to her father with troubles. typed from my desktop PC. I so not have a smart phone and I read books with hard covers.

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PostMon Nov 02, 2015 1:12 pm 
Doppelganger wrote:
Why do we feel so excluded when someone picks up their phone and starts poking away
Good question. I think there is something in there about the somewhat addictive nature of answering calls or checking for mails or seeing the latest texts or FB posts or whatever it is that gives the "checker" their next dopamine rush. When that person is supposedly hanging out with me, and they aren't dealing with some urgent crisis, yeah it seems a tad sad/lame if they can't postpone their next "fix" for a little while. OTOH, if they're just strangers doing it nearby then I may roll my eyes thinking I understand more of the context than I likely do wink.gif .

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PostMon Nov 02, 2015 1:23 pm 
Another family birthday dinner last night. 11 people, 4 cell phones active.

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PostWed Nov 04, 2015 6:10 am 
it is indeed hard to observe a whole story from one event but it did last about 45 minutes and she hardly said a word to any of the three the whole time. It was clear she was on face book and responding to multiple posts Yeah I dont have a life since I was there alone

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PostWed Nov 04, 2015 7:20 am 
My oldest two teenagers pre-cellphone. My youngest had a cellphone in high school and did 8000 TXT a month during that time. But he talked to me a lot more during his high school years than the other two. My oldest's high school vocabulary to his parents consisted of four words: Yes, No, Fine and ugh. I have a great relationship with all of them now that they are in their mid-20s and early 30s. Anyway I think you' all are projecting a lot of existing human behavior onto smartphones that would have been there anyway, just in a slightly different form. E.g. When I was a teenager, at large family gatherings with many people talking over each other, I would often find a spot and read the encyclopedia or any other printed material I could find as a way of dealing with the vocal overload.

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PostWed Nov 04, 2015 9:46 am 
RandyHiker wrote:
Anyway I think you' all are projecting a lot of existing human behavior onto smartphones that would have been there anyway, just in a slightly different form.
I think the truth is somewhere between "there's nothing new under the sun" and "the world is coming to an end." There are absolutely big pluses to the current level of connectivity. On the other hand, there's also mounting evidence that smart phones have a negative impact on ability to concentrate. Randy - if you have never felt the need to check your phone when you really just didn't need to check it, kudos! I think most of us have felt this, and have seen others doing said checking at moments that didn't feel entirely appropriate - I believe due to the somewhat addictive nature of the "incoming" on the phone. It's similar to the dopamine spurt I'd feel when getting a non-junk-mail snail mail letter, but it happens many times/day instead of only once/day here or there (or if you compare to getting a personal phone call, still MUCH more frequent, and something I can check for much more frequently, versus just looking at the answering machine upon returning home each day). Email on a desktop device has some of the same effect, but I don't carry that device with me nearly all the time. I have taught myself to mostly "batch" checking of email on my laptop or desktop, but it took some effort, and it's even harder for me to take such an approach with the phone.

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PostWed Nov 04, 2015 11:08 am 
When I was a kid, I had a crush on the Time & Weather voice on the phone. I dialed Time & Weather several times a day. Now I have a crush on Ross Reynold's voice, but I don't call him. Well, not as frequently as I called Time & Weather. And never while driving. OK, one time I did. But that was before it was illegal. I don't mean using the phone while driving, I mean before the restraining order, which made it illegal. Time & Weather never sued me. I was just a little kid.

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PostWed Nov 04, 2015 11:42 am 
joker wrote:
I think the truth is somewhere between "there's nothing new under the sun" and "the world is coming to an end."
Yes I certainly agree. There is an overhead to "task switching" and doing useful work requires an amount of disciple to defer checking socialist media (pun intended), email and other messages when mental focus is required. In terms of interacting with other humans "in real space" -- I think it is a good indicator of someone's general ability to be patient and present. A smartphone will buzz or ring and the content is dynamically update based on other people's activities -- so a smartphone is a more seductive attention hog than say a book -- but then I've been known to disappear into a book for a couple days (I tend to read books cover-to-cover more than a chapter a day)

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