Alright, so this topic has been on my mind for the longest time. Do you know somebody who is on their cell phone 24/7? Are you someone who has to have their phone on them at all times? Social media. Music. Networking and connections. Friends and family. Cell phones have so many uses nowadays that it pretty much is a laptop computer in the palm of your hand. The thing that ticks me off the most is people who can't put their phone down for a couple of seconds to have a decent conversation with someone. You walk into Red Sauce for dinner, and all you see is typically either a group of people on their phones, a person who is alone and to make the time there less awkward they are on their phones, or (AND THIS ONE KILLS ME)… A couple who are on their phones and not talking to each other because they would rather be delved into stupid social media apps or texting/calling someone else. You're there with your significant other! F***ing talk to them! I know that I have been on a date to a nice restaurant, and I can say that the other person was more into their phone than what I had to say. So I became quiet, and they wondered why I had stopped talking. Obviously you didn't care for what I had to say earlier, so what makes you care now?
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I am on an athletic team, and on the bus rides to away games, instead of having stupid times and making funny or great memories each and every person has their face buried in their cell phone. I'm not saying that I don't do that on occasion, because I know I do, but I could easily go without my phone for a week as long as I had an alarm clock that would wake me up in time for classes haha! But in my personal life, I usually only use my cell phone for music. I am a huge music addict and my phone is my music player. I also use it to text people, but unless I send the first text, I usually am just looking at the screen of my phone with my fingers crossed that someone might even be slightly be wanting to talk to me. So if you look at me and I'm on my phone and you're about to label me a hypocrite, just be sure I'm not trying to change my song or look up the number to the doctors office or something.
There are numerous categories for people that have cell phones. There are the gamers who only use it for game apps. There are the obnoxious Facetimers who go to the gym and sit on a machine just going through the routine while face timing their long-lost "BFF" from high school. There are the music addicts (which I place myself into). The non-stop texters. The social media scrollers. Facebookers. Tweeters. Instagramers. These all belong to that category where you scroll for hours and see the same things pop up over and over again. The viners who "Do it for the vine." that also could belong to the social media scrollers. And whatever else you could possibly come up with.
If you don't want to talk to me, cool. I understand. If you are that bored and want to lay in bed all day while scrolling through twitter because you have nothing to do with your life. Awesome. If you are addicted to that goddamn game Flappy Bird, please sign up for Flappy Anonymous at www.Ihavenolife.com/flappybirdapplication/addicts/Ineedhelp. If you would like for your boyfriend or girlfriend keep paying for your dinner dates, then I suggest that you keep your phone in your pocket, or even better yet, DON'T BRING IT! I've seen this thing where at dinner, all people must put their phones in the middle of the table and the first person to touch their phone has to pay for the entire meal for everyone that is there. I, personally, love this idea! Cell phones have taken over our lives and I think something needs to be done about it. I just might have to invent some kind of electromagnetic pulse that fries all cellular technologies and satellites that way people actually have to talk face-to-face. Why do you think managers and employers say that our generation is terrible at job interviews? First off, probably because we don't practice them enough through mock interviews, but the main reason is that we are so used to just emailing or submitting an application online for a job that coming in contact with the person behind that screen makes us so nervous.
So the next time your phone buzzes, just take a moment to think about this. Think about what you've read and what I've told you. Because chances are, that you immediately look at it, or you are so addicted to it that you think you hear/feel it vibrate or ring that you check it anyways. That's actually categorized as a mental disorder now, did you know that? Hmm, maybe you did from Twitter?
Compton9
I really loved this. It's so true. Every now and again, we are probably all guilty of being on our phones too much. But it's amazing at how hard it is to have a somewhat intelligent conversation with someone because either a) they are distracted by their phone or b) they spend too much time on it that they basically lose all notion of how to really talk with someone. I really like all of the points you made and hopefully people will think about how much time they spend on their phone/social media.
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