a phone could be a tool to use your brain. or you can just complain.
semp
OOo yeah. Smartphonezombies are the ultimatum level of human development for sure.
How many phone numbers do you remember now by heart and how many you did before cell phones came?
How many kids are reading books instead of fiddling with their phones?
How often you see people gathering in restaurant or somewhere else, w/o talking to each others but just playing w/ their zombieboxes?
How often you see family sitting outdoors, on a beach, in a park and both parents and kids just with phones, w/o seeing, hearing or understanding anything about the world around them?
All of them, and a lot!
My son is 11. He has just a normal gsm. I offered my old "smart" one, he didn't want it. He reads a lot. He was 2nd in the whole school in the end of last session. He swims like a dolphin, practices taekwondo and bikes a lot.
Adults are often stupefied to see young boy sitting outdoors reading a book and ask how it is possible. I always tell them it is a combination of example and common sense. And he still don't want a smartphone, even I told he can have one if he feels so.
His mother (we are divorced) does not go anywhere w/o her phone and gets furious every time if disturbed while writing "important things" in faecesbook or some other stupidity. She spends most of her time awake just banging the phone and never goes too far from closest socket... Yes, power of example, as even bad one is an example.
Smart phones are useful in many cases and places, but instead of being servants and tools, they have become masters for too many. Mine is used as a phone, navigator in my motorbike and a translator, as I live nowadays in a country, which's language is not my strongest one.
