So I Bought A Non Smart Phone, And Now I Am Smarter!

[lomatopo]

Photography and food are local obsessions here, both with long and regal histories, so combining the two seems like a match made in heaven. Thai food blogs are very impressive.

Louis CK is brilliant, but parents were doing the same thing back in 1960 with movie cameras so hardly something new.

Facebook is popular here, maybe because so many people live far from their home towns and they feel disconnected? Doesn't seem like a bad thing to me, admittedly I do not have a FB account so what do I know. Employees should be discouraged from using phones at work, assuming it is not directly related to their jobs. Weddings throw a lot of unrelated people together, and younger people might feel left out, My sense is that pre-smartphone weddings had a significant percentage of people who were not interacting anyway, maybe because they have nothing in common. Same with families out with children, where the mother, father and two children are all on mobile devices. I'd wager they didn't talk much in the pre-smartphone era?

It seems easy to just leave the smartphone at home, or turn it off, or just ignore it but I understand many people may not have the required level of self-restraint so need to go cold turkey. I say good for them, whatever makes you happier is a good thing.

Edited June 8, 2013 by lomatopo

[DGIE]

Nice post and comments!

Honestly, i feel ashamed using cheap things and feel like boasting when using expensive ones especially

when around people.

But honestly, I hate that attitude of mine. I even admire people

using cheap things even though I know they are capable of owning expensive ones.

But what I admire most is when one is not ashamed to use cheap things

because he cannot afford to have expensive one.

[nachiket]

Today I attended a Thai wedding of a family member...the morning and evening sessions. At the morning session while people were eating I estimate around 35% of the attendees were playing with their smartphones the whole time...and I don't mean taking pictures I mean just playing with their phones and not interacting much with the people setting next to them at the table...I guess surfing the internet, playing games, sending SMSs were more important. Now come the night session I saw the same thing again. Some folks just play so much with their phones they tune themselves out of things going on around them. Sometimes I wonder if smartphones make a person more sociable or more anti-sociable....way too much staring & praying to the smartphone screen.

This is something happening really worse now a days.

I saw it even in cultural, religious or social meetings indeed.

Nobody concerns about ongoing discussions or topics to tackle about and just throw himself in so called social world or game world.

Edited June 8, 2013 by nachiket

[Pacificperson]

But I am slowly getting tired of it interrupting my life. I never thought it was an interruption, until yesterday. Other issues also crept in,

I think this is just one manifestation of getting older. I've seen this phenomenon with quite a few older friends, parents/relatives, siblings. Seems like a normal path for some? Maybe the mind just can't handle as much, or there is a need for simplicity?

There is always a need for simplicity. There is a reason they call it the "Rat Race".

[pattayadingo]

My Samsung phone died last night.

Touch screen, does this that and the other and a pain in the ass for one - like many others - who really only wants to phone people, send texts and maybe take the odd photo.

I was given the Samsung by my son when I was last back home and I found it a pain to use.

What am I going to buy?

A Nokia 3110C.

Very good for large text that I can read. Has loads of storage / options for addresses, contact numbers, birth dates and such like. It uses keys to type in with, not a piddly digital keyboard on the screen.

If I turn the phone upside down or sideways, the picture / photo stays the same. I want to enlarge the photo? No problem.

I've had 2 of these Nokias before. Lasted ages. The only reason I used the Samsung (a spare phone) is because the last Nokia went up in flames in a car fire.

It may not look beautiful nor expensive, but the Nokia 3110C works as I want it to work.

Luddites Rule !!

[Somtamnication]

Welcome to the luddite crowd!!!

Edited June 24, 2013 by Somtamnication