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People either have forgotten or didn't live in the time before smart phones, but the world was fucking boring as, you HAD to talk to someone because you were so fucking bored, that's why we discovered shit, we were bored and had to do something, then turtle neck man gave us smartphones.
you HAD to talk to someone because you were so fucking bored
Yeah, nah, I just read one or two novels each day.
While music was playing on the stereo.. flipped the cassette every half hour..
It's really sad to me that people think that smartphones are the source of all entertainment now. Even today I use my phone very little on a daily basis. You're limiting your perspective to that little screen in your hand instead of exploring the real world.
Smartphones are what is fucking boring to me. I don't want to sit around and look at that shit.
Apparently parents love it as it keeps the kids quiet and relieves them of the stress of parenting.
Ruined these things for you maybe. I still enjoy them. And don't use my phone for most. One of the things I live about the phone is being able to communicate with my friends and family I want. I also enjoy having the majority of the worlds information available to me. Ooooo and music. Soooo much music at my fingertips.
Yes, the option to just throw it in the corner and not charge it anymore.
Or to uninstall all your shitty apps.
Take away anon's phone for a day and see how he likes it.
Well this is the cold hotdog water of hot takes. Ill guess anon wasn't alive before smart phones.
Damn good summary. Even more BS than I complain about on a weekly basis.
(written from my smartphone when I should be sleeping)
How does everyone everywhere having a really decent camera ruin photography? One of the things we had to do in photography class was use a disposable to take well composed shots (but also we developed the film ourselves). A phone camera would make those look way better.
ITT awful fucking reasons for "smartphone good". Fuck smartphones.
Yep. Ignore your downvotes. They're just zoomers with Stockholm syndrome.
A standalone camera would be a better camera. A standalone media player would be a better media player. Emulation handhelds are better gaming systems.
Paper-weights don't even have batteries. Checkmate, phones.
Phones are useless for anything but making sure you're abiding by your state-mandated privatized surveillance of choice and if I could carry around a tiny Linux laptop with cellular integration and use it instead, I probably would.
I get not everyone can use Linux, but I feel that's a misunderstood problem in that, it isn't my problem that you can't do something.
Pocket porn!
"Smartphones. This Christmas, take a short break from using a device to masturbate and use it to talk to your extended family." Yea that's not something I considered would happen with tech when I was younger.
ruined privacy
Ruined that too