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

[roberth]

https://bastionofliberty.blogspot.co...is-taking.html

Second, let me get it out: I told you so. All of you with smartphones glued to your hands, who can’t look away from the screen long enough to greet your spouse when he comes home from work...or your spouse when you get home from work...or your parents when you finally return home from school, or soccer practice, or wherever.

You are not functioning as a self-aware, volitional being invested with the awesome powers of evaluation and choice. You’ve surrendered that estate and are being led around by a device. You are being programmed. (You may take it as gospel that I know something about programming.)


You are not alive, by the standards that properly apply to human life. You’re a robot. Less, really: you’re a mechanism walking a treadmill. You have the power to turn it off and dismount...but you won’t use it.


Is this contentment...or enslavement?

I like to think that most of the people on this board are more aware of their surroundings than the average person, but I've been wrong before.

How do you handle your smartphone usage, how do you monitor your children's usage of the device?

[TRnCO]

I'm sure I'm a minority on this but I use my smart phone for 3 things, text, phone, and pictures. Needless to say, some might call me dinosaur.
No kids to worry about.
thank God.

[Great-Kazoo]

I'm sure I'm a minority on this but I use my smart phone for 3 things, text, phone, and pictures. Needless to say, some might call me dinosaur.
No kids to worry about.
thank God.

You're not alone. Our kid (35 yrs old) uses hers for more but, her ability to use a pc/laptop due to coverage and download speeds is limited where she resides.

[Zundfolge]

I'm sure I'm a minority on this but I use my smart phone for 3 things, text, phone, and pictures. Needless to say, some might call me dinosaur.
No kids to worry about.
thank God.

I'm sure I'm an even bigger (smaller?) minority as I don't even have a dumb phone.

[ray1970]

I use mine responsibly. I don’t play with it while driving. I don’t really do any “social media” stuff with it. For me it’s a tool. I obviously use it to stay in touch with people. I use it to check some weather stuff for work and sometimes use it for navigation. I use it for browsing the forums here when I have a little downtime. Sometimes I get news and sports updates. I’m definitely not glued to the damn thing and it spends 95% of it’s life in my pocket.

Now, my wife... well she’s on his phone all the time. Gotta stay in the loop with people she hasn’t seen in person since high school I guess or whatever.

[Eric P]

I don't have a PC since the note 4

[10x]

Don't have a cell phone. My wife has one we leave in a drawer until we travel somewhere. I rarely borrow it. I am definitely in the minority.

[Irving]

The quoted clip seems way overblown and needlessly dramatic to me. Yes people have control issues with respect to device usage and manners. That doesn't make anyone a robot or slave to the device by any means.

[roberth]

The quoted clip seems way overblown and needlessly dramatic to me. Yes people have control issues with respect to device usage and manners. That doesn't make anyone a robot or slave to the device by any means.

Yes, I thought it was overblown too until I started seeing people walking into the can with their stupidphone in one hand and trying to unzip/juggle their winkus with the other hand WHILE continuing to text, then they walk up to the wash basin and do all of that one-handed while texting, can't even put it down for a minute.

[davsel]

The quoted clip seems way overblown and needlessly dramatic to me. Yes people have control issues with respect to device usage and manners. That doesn't make anyone a robot or slave to the device by any means.

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