Get rid of your smartphone

>inb4 fuck off grandpa

Smartphones have resulted in the downfall of society. Their easy access to the internet has allowed for this liberal hivemind that thinks everything that could go wrong is currently going wrong. I'm sick of seeing people constantly engulfed in their phones, with little regard to their surroundings. People have become more impatient, self-centered, and generally more cunt-ish since the rise of smartphones and mainstream social media. It's honestly become a fucking drug, everybody I know thinks they can’t live without one. It’s absolute insanity.

>b-but muh apps!
Really think about what you actually need for a cellphone. The only time you should need GPS is on a long car trip. There's no reason why you should have to post your every move online. You don’t NEED constant access to the web, it’s just been there for so long that you forgot what it was like without it.

>how will I look things up now?
Instead of constantly needing to look things up, just try using your head. Try and solve whatever problem it is you have on your own.

>my work REQUIRES me to own a smartphone!
I highly doubt you can't get by with a laptop (and even that’s a stretch for a lot of things) and regular cellphone.

A cellphone should be an object, not your entire existence.

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nice try, grandpa

Fuck off grandpa.

I've never owned a smartphone. I was in college when they first hit the streets, and I've never jumped on board. It still seems really strange to me how I see all these people clutching their little computers all day long. I still get by with a flip phone, though I admit having a nice camera would be fun sometimes,

>Instead of constantly needing to look things up, just try using your head.

oh ok so if I need to find a phone number or an address I should just magically cause it to enter into my brain somehow. great plan, retard.

how about this: just don't be a phone zombie. you're acting like it's a foregone conclusion that people will become helplessly addicted if they have a phone near them. that sounds like projection; you have this problem, so you think that everyone else does too. well, we don't.

>Smartphones have resulted in the downfall of society
>The collapse of organic society has resulted in people of all sorts being glued to personal vanity screens
Ftfy. You're clearly not seeing the bigger picture. Ironically, you're too busy looking at the issue of cellphones. PS nice reddit spacing

Good luck trying to break Sup Forums soyboys from their smartphones.

I've never owned a smartphone on purpose, has barely affected my life.

t. brainlet mutt

flip phone best phone

The desktop is dead

Anyone remember late 90s Internet?

i remember when people were freaking out about the idea that the government/corporations would put RFID chips in something and know where you were. if 2001 could see us now.

>trying to kill mobile-posting
Nice try, Grandpa

bump smart phones are surveillance brainwash devices, get a flip phone soy boys

Op is right, (((smartphones))) are a cancer on the earth and Orwell is rolling in his grave

Keep it away from your nutsack - those old flip phones have huge radiation levels compared to newer phones.

I would much, much, much, MUCH rather play on my phone than talk to ANY random stranger on the street or train.

Tech industry, especially social media, is actively encouraging the downfall of society.

They all need to be executed by firing squad

That's part of what OP is getting at. You lack social skills because you're a nerd would rather piddle on his phone than talk to an actual human being face-to-face.

"So how's the weather?"
Yeah I'm missing out

Some of us have jobs, retard. Jobs that require our calendars, emails, IM and conferencing applications be available on our phones.
Get a fucking job.

Back to godlikeproductions you go grandpa

Good post, OP. You also forgot something very important. 'Smart'phones degrade human memory. No one tries to remember anything anymore because they can always check their phones for it, where it is 'saved'.
Idiocracy is happening slowly and surely.

whoever capitalizes on the coming flip phone market is gonna be a really rich mother fucker

are Sup Forumstards like constantly angry all the fucking time? jesus christ.

I want those toes in my mouth.

Op is not a faggot
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You dont have to get rid of your smartphone to not be a stupid piece of shit that also does not pay attention to his surroundings.

>early days of the webs
stop looking at that damn screen all the time

>stopped using cellphone way back, never had a smartphone
oh user, stop living in the past

>fucking normies

>muh job

Bullshit. If you need a smartphone to be effective you're a fucking idiot and should be fired.

t. phoneposter

When you work a real job not the $9/hr starbucks server job it requires you to have a smartphone for many different uses. In fact many companies give you the phone.

boomer here..
you cancerous young faggots are the ones who made the use of smartphones such a pervasive, time wasting thing. Older people like me don't need those idiot devices and are fine with PCs and getting outside and enjoying life like normal people. Young people continue to destroy this country..

I deliver food, I do need my smart phone for work, as for apps I can actually do some sound design on my smart phone.

IT worker here.. senior developer and I never use a smartphone. Just a flip phone.

I said a real job, like an engineer or lawyer.

>meme flag

Sage

>Get rid of your smartphone

I've never had one, normie faggot.

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>Smartphones have lead to the downfall of society
Prove it, grandpa. The times are changing. It was like this before but with books and newspapers.

>Get rid of your smartphone
What's in it for you?

>confusing the cause and effect

People doing this is one of the many effects of the downfall of Western Civilization, it is not the cause.

Pathetic (((smartphone))) apologists in this thread. Gas yourselves you junkie addicts. You are carrying a glow in the dark goy tracker 3000 in your pocket day in day out. The cognitive dissonance must be tough for you.

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>be the generation that caused the sexual revolution and thus the floodgates of total depraved degeneracy

>the generation that passed the immigration law

>the generation that legalized porn

The day of the rope for boomers cannot come soon enough.

This. Plus a tumor in your ballsack

>instantaneous access to all the accumulated knowledge of humanity is a bad thing


okay grandpa

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>Smartphones have resulted in the downfall of society
Newsflash: they didn't have any smartphones in the 60s.

This
The smartphone has merely helped in the downfall of society, computers, TV, and much more has helped

>Bullshit. If you need a smartphone to be effective you're a fucking idiot and should be fired.

I'm a cloud architect that needs to keep apprised of the status of large scale migrations that could be taking place any time over a 24 hour period, and on weekends. Which means I need to be able to stay informed while out of the house.

You're a fucking retard without a job.

The other month a friend of mines mother had been in a accident, all she was told by someone in a panic at the scene was half a hospital and town name in a rush and thats all the details she could get, having my smartphone on me while i was out i could within minutes search that rushed name and find the hospital she was headed to and her family could find out what was going on.
Luckily enough and thank god she survived but if i didnt have my phone i wouldnt have been able to help my friend find where her mum was going
>tldr yeah people are glued to them but their fucking useful

>if i didnt have my phone i wouldnt have been able to help my friend find where her mum was going
what?are you retarded?

Fuck off Boomer - It was your generation who fucked society with your need to have barista's with degrees in nuclear fusion, your children working 80 hour weeks not to mention the debt you're going to leave us.

I can't wait until the Day of the Nursing Home - I'm going to laugh so hard as you all drown in your own shit as Indian nurses watch on.

u are weak

oh user please, everyone know that you use your phone for those gacha games and porn, you're not browsing wikipedia all the time and nobody does

I have a Nokia E72, wifi works for emails fine but for browsing its slow as fuck but I dont stare in my phone every 5 minutes

GPS exist user

I want to nibble those knee caps

You forgot the most important reason of all: they are constantly spying on you, the ai is advanced enough now to keep track of every location you visit, every website and everything you take pictures of is being saved into a permanent profile of you

It was so...so much better.

Fucking smartphones.

>u are weak

>Says the boomer apologist

I'm struggling to see why either of those actually need one. The pay for a senior dev is roughly the same btw.

Your job won’t be needed when we bomb the techies

>agrees whilst on a phone

>It was so...so much better.

No, late 80's internet with the majority of traffic being USENet was better because it was only white people. The shitskins found it too difficult.

Smart phones are part of the reason Sup Forums is so popular and the internet is the reason racism is making a comeback you worthless fucking luddite kike shill

>Your job won’t be needed when we bomb the techies

Why are you on the internet?

I didn't actually get on until after eternal September. Old man had a 386 with a modem connected to God knows what but I never used it until the Web came out. Did use newsgroups and such for piracy.

> Old man had a 386 with a modem connected to God knows what

If you're in the West Coast, it would have been "Mind Link! "

So anyway, I use my mobile to do Uber, it also serves as my hotspot to my PC so I can do graphic design between call out's.

I love watching the boomers walk by my car with hate on their faces, it makes me warm and fuzzy on the inside knowing that I'm not slaving around in a 16 hour a day job to pay for their pensions.

>pointing out the most painful puss-filled blister concerning smart-phone use
>thinks he's making a point

the absolute state of smart-phone users

>mfw never owned even a dumbphone due to being a weird autist
>now watching all of modern society fry it's mind with screen addiction, dopamine overload, lack of social interaction, porn on-tap literally everywhere and social media anxiety
>my mental health hasn't improved, it's just that everyone around me has gotten so worse, I am now considered mentally healthy in comparison
>just being able to hold a conversation at dinner makes me a supreme social master as opposed to "normal" people who literally get nervous from not checking their phone for more than 5 minutes

>convinced himself he needs a smart-phone for this

idiot

>cloud architect

Read

In smartphone America, newspaper reads you.

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Stop using Sup Forums you dumb day got leave. You are just as bad as fuckheads on facebook complaining about it.

Explain to me then how my clients should get in contact with me for urgent legal advice when Child Safety turns up on the weekend to confiscate their children.

>hurr you should just let child safety take their children fuck lawyers lawl
Yes, this attitude will surely result in repeat business for me.

It's just amazing how uncomfortable people are without a smartphone. I've fallen into the habit of calling people out on being on their phones in inappropriate situations. They either don't give a fuck or they put it down for a few minutes only to keep checking it like a junky. I get so tired of gatherings where the entire room is quiet and everyone is just looking at their phones I usually end up leaving because fuck this I can be bored on my own.

I got a old Nokia with buttons when I started my company. Never went back.

>why do lawyers need to able to contacted at any time by their clients
Are you serious, nigger?

For starters because out-of-hours fees are like 300% my normal rate, so please please please fucking call me any time you like for hours and hours, and secondly because the cops and the CSO aren't going to wait until Monday to charge you with child neglect and drag you down to the station to ask for a record of interview.

Because the internet is useful for more than what your society destroying tech companies are using it for

Also does anyone remember how much the boomers spend watching the TV while bitching about our phones.

Its the Boomer Brainwashed calling the Young Zombies.

>heir easy access to the internet has allowed for this liberal hivemind that thinks everything that could go wrong is currently going wrong. I'm sick of seeing people constantly engulfed in their phones, with little regard to their surroundings. People have become more impatient, self-centered, and generally more cunt-ish since the rise of smartphones and mainstream social media. It's honestly become a fucking drug, everybody I know thinks they can’t live without one. It’s absolute insanity.
You're speaking to the wrong people, and the right people can't be reasoned with. Most people on Sup Forums don't need this advice, it's the lemmings that do. The only issue is that the lemming is a natural hedonist, and a smartphone is never-ending dopamine.

nothing wrong with a smartphone, just have self control and dont spend all day scrolling

Please fuck off back to R*ddit.

>people who care about their tangible material situation instead of sharing my extreme opinions about abstract principles are STOOPID
Every time.

Fuck off you luddite retard grandpa faggot

>people without ideals who only care about personal comfort are stupid
Where's the lie?

nah man, the amplitude is too high to cause cell mutation

Ditched my iPhone last week for a Nokia with buttons. I like this change. Less dependable on everything else.

This

i haven't used one in months, before then i only used it to have 5 sec calls with my father
AMA

i still use a desktop for everything AMA

I feel ya user.
I don't smartphone if it makes you feel any better. I also loath the pleb phoners I see in my everyday life. Plus the idiots texting and driving and swerving and dieing.

shut up nigger ive never even touched a cellphone

>Smartphones have resulted in the downfall of society. Their easy access to the internet has allowed for this liberal hivemind that thinks everything that could go wrong is currently going wrong

How is that any different than people turning on the daily news at 5AM in the morning or the rerun at 7AM?

>.I'm sick of seeing people constantly engulfed in their phones, with little regard to their surroundings. People have become more impatient, self-centered, and generally more cunt-ish since the rise of smartphones and mainstream social media. It's honestly become a fucking drug, everybody I know thinks they can’t live without one. It’s absolute insanity.

This goes without saying for anything engaging with technology, or reading a book, or anything that requires someones attention. You make yourself sound like an annoying bugger because you can't engage yourself properly with another human being.

The rest of the points you point out are retard bait.

are you gay

nah, people fucking suck. especially in the city. i'll create my own bubble if i feel like it