I think cell phones are destroying humanity

Bark said:

So now a days it is perfectly natural for two people to share a meal and never even really look across the table.

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Your concern is valid. Many people are just rude when using their phones, but I don't think that's because of the phone, because the device just amplifies. I know plenty of people who come to the dinner table after muting their phones. I know just as many who sit next to each other on the couch texting. It is up to the individual.

Well I was trying to talk a little while ago about how a scientist looking at a lot of data over decades claims that "Screen Time" is destroying youth, so I am on-board talking about the matter.'
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https://www.debatepolitics.com/off-...rt-screen-time-ruins-youth-mental-health.html

Utility Man said:

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Rather disproportionately Distopian don't you think?

Bark said:

Very likely. I mostly only know and am exposed to heathens. Church is my only safe spot and I'm half Muslim.

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You can't be half Muslim.

But then again, cell phones have enabled to us to capture and and instantly share quite a few undeniably important moments in recent history.

I'll bet many of the old school people in media wish they had such a tool.

I would love to dig up Edward R. Murrow and ask him about his take on cell phone technology.

Following the "Bucket Bomb" incident on the Tube, the police have reiterated the warning to run away, and not stop to take pictures of the bomb, because the ****ing thing might kill you!

I hate cell phones...any phone actually; but I understand they are a necessary evil and barely tolerate them.

Were they not needed, I would have smashed mine with a 20 ton press, melted it down, incinerated it, buried the ashes in hell, and salted the earth above it.

I hate phones, period. Had an answering machine before "anybody" did and when reaching one really pissed people off. But I can't imagine not having my cell with me--for women especially, this is a safety issue.

But the addiction to them is creepy. When what's on your screen is more "real" and more important than the other human beings you are actually with, you have a problem. My BFF's daughter-in-law had the first grandbaby almost two weeks ago, and she made everybody in the family download some app. Every diaper change, every everything MUST be recorded and in a timely fashion too.

Yesterday at her appointment with the pediatrician, rather than making direct eye contact with the doctor, she entered data into the phone. My BFF said nothing, of course, but was embarrassed just by the rudeness, particularly after the nurse said twice that all the info she was putting into the phone was already printed on the documents she had been handed.

And besides, unless there is something unusual and therefore notable going on, why does recording every time a baby pees matter? Just change the diaper and move on!

Smartphones (computers that also function as phones) are great modern tools.

Smartphones can potentially cause problems too. I guess it all depends on how one fits them into their own needs (or preferred functions might be a better phrase) in their own "lifestyle" if you will. Like I said... I can see how they can potentially become a vehicle for a serious problem to occur in your life. But man... they have some serious positive benefits too.