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Could you live without a mobile phone?
| I do play mobile games, but it's all on my Nox app player so I don't actually use my phone much.
| Huh, our IDs are off by 2 characters
| I am addicted to my mobile phone. Watching YouTube, chatting with friends, reading news, using various forums etc
| I can't live without it. I have a social life.
| I absolutely could. If it wasn't for having a career I'd never use one. I almost never use mine now.
Light Phone 2 is a phone that I'll have for a very long time after next year.
| I could live without it. I am more or less like >>174703 and would not suffer much if suddenly they disappeared. I hate it with a passion when people not only fiddle with it when talking to someone or in a meeting or when with other people, but also when they leave it on the table when for a coffee or at a bar so it is always in their sight and attention. Eventually they end up checking it every 2-3 minutes.
| >>174728 I only do that because I am extremely uncomfortable talking person to person and I need to pretend I am actually doing something instead of not talking whole the time
| Easy but i didnt grow up with one
| >>174812
In the vast majority of cases though, it gets interpreted as 'i am not interested in the one near me and of what I am discussing and I have better and more interesting things to do with my phone'. Fiddling with a phone is a major put off for the other persons near, use of phones when with other people actually helps towards these people not being interested in your company. My advice is to forget about the phone when with other people.
| I mean I use danger/u/ on my phone on a daily basis as well as for communication and entertainment I could probably live without a "phone" because I also have a desktop and tablet that do nearly all the same stuff but better
| Technically, yes. It would be rather inconvenient, though.
| Yes
| No, no not really. Actually, no not at all. I can only use my computer on a boat for so long before I get bored.
| Guess I could, I only need an internet connection and a laptop/PC
Remove that, though, and I will go mad
| Yes, because I have a PC.
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| I think not, LOL. PC and Phone actually my almost only connection to RL, so... It's depressing.
| It's an extention for the brain at this point, having internet access 24/7 with basically any knowledge you might situationally need at hand, as well as apps like scientific calculator, translator, map, public transport app, etc
Sure you can live without that, like a human from age of Gutenberg's press in centuries 15-20
You might want to live without that only maybe in preparation for global disaster like nukes, to learn not to be too attached to devices and internet access
| >>175928
Or, maybe you'd want to travel to the countryside and have a change of scenery from a city, including the phone
Or you want to feel and imagine for a while how people from the past lived their days
Other than that, there's no reason for me to consciously impair my brain in my daily life or work
| no
| Probably would be hard for a few days since it's almost like my computer to me, but then after that it'll be easy peasy.
| Yeah, The smartphone was a mistake. Everybody is looking into their smartphones all the time, it almost looks orwellian. I wish I could go back to the 2000s, having a desktop computer was the best we’ve ever actually needed
| Probably, because I'm borderline antissocial. I'd miss music on the go though.
| >>177071
What's orwellian about it? If anything, it's more like Bradbury
And why strangers ("real people") on the street/in transport should interest people more than a text conversation with a friend, or a book, or news media, whichever it is on their phone? Bradbury implied it was something bad ("in my times, people talked face to face") but is it really?
But I agree if you're talking about someone constantly glancing on the phone in live company of friends, that's junk habit.
| I use my phone more as a portable computer than an actual phone, I don't even know how to access my voicemail and couldn't care less.
| I need it for communication while I am not home. Wow it's almost like cellular telephones have a use outside of being a computer.
| Fucking normies defending their botnet tracking devices.
| I could, but since I recently moved and dont have social media all my friends and family would probably think i died if I suddenly stopped usimg my phone entirely.
| I don't have a social life, so I can't live without it
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| OK, i want to chat about mobile phones. I have one but i hardly ever use it. It just sits on my desk at home and is switched off most of the time. So i believe I could live without a mobile phone.