This. In the end, smartphones (at least in combo with social media) were a mistake.
Think about it - this is an addictive item which frequently causes anger, depression and envy, and leads to to frequent distraction to the users. 13 years ago it barely existed, and now it is so common that if you don't have one people think you're some type of weirdo and even sometimes mock you for it (at least, in my experience).
Yes, it does give us access to the sum total of human knowledge in the palm of our hands, but many people just use it to look at headlines and then ignore the actual story so they can go look pictures of what people ate for lunch and what their favorite sportsball player or movie star is doing today. (yeah, I know I'm exaggerating some).
If the cell networks were to just shut down tomorrow, I'm certain the world would be a better place.
For the most part, I agree with you, but here's the funny thing... nobody picks on me at work (at a telecom for that matter) for not bothering with facebook or twitter. I do have a rarely-used twitter account, but I think all I've ever done on it was post like 2-3 splatoon pictures. Yeah, that's it.
In a weird way, I think it's more that there's some kind of fear among the populace that they will be left out.
That said, I do run into a fair number of customers who could care less about facebook and twitter so long as facetime and SMS/iMessage work.
This. In the end, smartphones (at least in combo with social media) were a mistake.
Think about it - this is an addictive item which frequently causes anger, depression and envy, and leads to to frequent distraction to the users. 13 years ago it barely existed, and now it is so common that if you don't have one people think you're some type of weirdo and even sometimes mock you for it (at least, in my experience).
Yes, it does give us access to the sum total of human knowledge in the palm of our hands, but many people just use it to look at headlines and then ignore the actual story so they can go look pictures of what people ate for lunch and what their favorite sportsball player or movie star is doing today. (yeah, I know I'm exaggerating some).
If the cell networks were to just shut down tomorrow, I'm certain the world would be a better place.
For the most part, I agree with you, but here's the funny thing... nobody picks on me at work (at a telecom for that matter) for not bothering with facebook or twitter. I do have a rarely-used twitter account, but I think all I've ever done on it was post like 2-3 splatoon pictures. Yeah, that's it.
In a weird way, I think it's more that there's some kind of fear among the populace that they will be left out.
That said, I do run into a fair number of customers who could care less about facebook and twitter so long as facetime and SMS/iMessage work.