Do You Own Your Electronic Device or Does It Own You?

[TFOGGER]

My phone is a phone, texting device, camera, and radio. I rarely use it for anything else, and it spends pretty much my entire work day either in my pocket or laying on my desk while I actually work. Email and web stuff is all done on PCs.

[MrAK]

I’ve got no family, it’s a great way to keep that kind of drama artificially in my life through social media and a nagging gps narrator.

[wyome]

My phone owns me...I allow it to happen...oh well

[buffalobo]

I carry two phones. Work and personal. Am owned by work phone during business hours. Personal phone is used to talk and text wife, read here, weather and news alerts and Kindle reading app. COAR15 is the only "social" media I participate in.

[hurley842002]

I find it ironic how often the "no phone" crowd is on this forum, which means they are tethered to a stationary computer, I on the other hand use my "dumb" phone for literally everything, and being a mobile device, means I can do everything anywhere. I remember having to sit in front of a computer to browse the web, no thank you, computers are pretty much word processors for me anymore.

[pickenup]

I do not own a smart phone. It does not work at my house, so why?
I do own a flip phone for travel, and it has never been connected to the internet.
For $6 to buy the phone and $6 a month to keep it active, I figure that is good insurance.

Now my son practically lives on his.
Knowing it does not work when visiting us, he still can't help but look at it ever few minutes.

[Zundfolge]

For $6 to buy the phone and $6 a month to keep it active, I figure that is good insurance.

Main reason I don't have a phone is that I'm cheap, but $6/mo doesn't sound bad ... where you get that deal?

[pickenup]

Main reason I don't have a phone is that I'm cheap, but $6/mo doesn't sound bad ... where you get that deal?

Like BushMasterBoy, mine is a Tracfone, except I got mine at King Soopers. They had some kind of special going on where the phone was really cheap, and the minutes were double what you bought - for life. I always get the smallest minutes that give you coverage for 90 days, because I don't use what minutes I have, and the higher minute cards still only give you the same 90 days until you have to add more minutes. So for $19.99 every 90 days it comes to $6 and change per month. I send it with the wife if she goes out by herself, just in case.

[Vic Tory]

... my son practically lives on his.
Knowing it does not work when visiting us, he still can't help but look at it ever few minutes.

This was funny.

I am a part-time high school coach. The kids on the team practically PANIC when I make them keep their phones in their bags and NOT check them 77 times during practices.

[Vic Tory]

One more and I"m done for a while....

A good friend is a restaurant operations whiz -- helping fix struggling restaurants. One thing he teaches the owners to do is insist on the job candidates leaving their phones OFF, or on the counter OUTSIDE the manger's office.

When he does interviews of millennials for the owners, they mostly last about two minutes. That's how long it takes the candidates to violate his rule, and they are gone!