People today, especially the teens, are totally living in cyber land and addicted to their smart phones.

It is so annoying.

A friend of mine told a story of how he found his daughter so upset and crying that he thought some horrible thing had happened to her. She was crying because she had lost her charger and had not had her phone working for a whole day.

Whatever happened to playing outside? Half the time I forget to take my phone with me. I only bring it in case I break down or something.

When I grew up we didn't have cell phones. I only have one with me basically for emergencies.

I use mine constantly, but I wouldn't call it an addiction. It's a tool. I use it for internet access, to keep in touch with friends and family, to listen to internet radio shows and pod casts, as an address book and sometimes a journal. And that's just a few of it's many uses.

I wish it had an umbrella app though.

You are addicted.

You know you are getting old when you only carry a cell phone to make a call in an emergency.

When I was growing up, only filthy rich drug dealers had cell phones. I wanted one really bad then.

Now every trailer park mom and her six children all have cell phones.

I only have one for emergencies.

Still don't own one. No one has explained to me what they are for yet.

Nonsense. I also look at my road atlas several times a day. Am I addicted to maps too?

My smart phone has allowed me to replace many tools with just one. I don't need a flashlight anymore. I don't need to a shelf full of books. I don't need to call every friend just to touch base once a month because I see their facebook updates.

It's freed me from clutter and made my life more organized. I could live without it, but why would I give up so much?

I live in a truck, anything that conserves space is is like a Godsend.

Oh, it's worse than that. It is a five year old flip phone that still works!

As far as it goes, I'm still addicted to my 'dumb phone'; my old reliable rotary dial one...remember those, or perhaps not...
I have no use for using a cell phone let alone any of the other types people are consumed with while trying to find their way about a street without being hit by others enraptured by this annoying toy.
In dealing with reality however, I have just gotten one strictly for emergency use in case all power goes out due to whatever. Otherwise, I never see it and I never use it, just occasionally check the battery.

Why does it annoy you that people enjoy using their phones?

Because I happen to prefer person to person communication without being interrupted with some stupid cell phone going off and the person you are talking with just ignores you and starts texting, or talking to someone else.

Its rude.

So, what I do now is, if they are having a relationship with their cell phones, as far as I am concerned they are living in another universe and they better not even engage me in conversation unless they are prepared to focus and stop putting me on hold for some text message.

Its more than annoying.

So, you're not troubled by smart phone. You're troubled by rudeness. I agree with you. When I'm engaged in a conversation the phone is in a holding pattern except for the most dire emergency.

http://www.sharpman.com/sharpman_s_guide_to_cell_phone_etiquette.htm

It does trouble me that the newer generation largely live in cyberspace and are addicted to their cell phones and video games because they are missing out on real life basically.

I can't explain why it troubles me but it just does. Perhaps because I see a bit of that kind of addiction in myself when I spend too much time on the computer myself and my real life just gathers cobwebs.

Also, I think people should be out of reach sometimes... why do they think that they must be reachable all the time or why do they panic when they can't call their spouse constantly? Insecurity?

Are we becoming a society who must monitor everyone else in our lives and be monitored by them? If someone can't reach you, and then when they finally do what gives them the right to interrogate you as if they are entitled to know where you are and what you are doing at all times?

That is not a problem in my life, as not many people care where I am, but I see that in so many people. It just seems strangely like co-dependency.

We are becoming the BORG... all electronically connected to a single system.

I value my time alone, in solitude. Some people panic if they are disconnected from the web. Its weird.

I BLAME FACEBOOK. THEY STARTED IT.

Ah, yes. Rudeness. Even those of us with smartphones are annoyed by that.

When I was a kid people worried about TV addiction. Before that it was comic books. I'm sure there was something before that too.

There's always something that's going to ruin everything. It's change and nothing is going to stop it. Everything will change, even to mountains and seas.

Another sign of getting older.

I hate change.

Welcome to technology

Everyday a idiot box does same thing past 100+ years

Now sudden boom in Technology gets us Smart phones...

In next 5 years we will see robot girl friends...

Who knows half of you guys might marry one too..

Technology has made life simple at the cost of physical friendship to a cyber one.

Soon, our kids will not know other kids physical because schools will run online from age 1 to till you die and our kids might never seen another human being.

GG Technology... Well played.