Yet, you engage with society. Curious.
Comment on Anon hates smartphones
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m prepared for the downvotes knowing where I’m posting.
If you hate it that much, why are you using it? It’s a tool. It’s useful. It also allows you to overindulge, but that says more about you than the tool.
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t create posts claiming smart phones ruined every aspect of society dude
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
elidoz@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
I had only ever seen the last panel, I didn’t know there’s more
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 22 hours ago
For someone sharing OP’s opinion, simply “not using it” wouldn’t solve anything. Most of the problems OP lists is stems from that people in general use them.
I’m not saying you should agree with OP, but your argument misses the point.
ch00f@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As someone who carries around a flip phone on purpose, it’s not impossible to live without a smartphone, but it’s getting more challenging.
Ticketmaster now requires a smartphone. You can’t print tickets. Which means I can no longer go to baseball games.
So far, that’s the only thing I’ve found that’s a hard block, but many other things are certainly not designed for the phone impaired.
deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
the guy exclusively lists cultural phenomena. how would not using a phone personaly solve any of these?
“It’s just a tool” is such an ignorant statement in general. The tools we use have been shaping or culture for thousands of years. There is no choice not to take part in the current state of humanity. “It’s just a tool” is what people who want to sell you their technology tell you to make you forget about the effects it can have on a bigger scale.
zloubida@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Smartphones are using me more than I use them. I hate them, and love them, and hate that I love them.
Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I don’t have one, I’m browsing from my computer. I still go through all the inconveniences listed above and some more. Check mate, smartphone user.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
knowing where I’m posting.
a place where people call each other out for saying stupid shit?
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Wow
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not using the device doesn’t suddenly end its impacts on society.
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
I don’t use it. At all. But nevertheless I still have to deal with people constantly telling me that I need to use their ‘app’, and or only giving information in the form of a QR code. I still have to navigate around zombie-people staring at their phones while they walk around. I still have to deal with the fall-out of bad online interactions that kids have had. and so on. The attention-span issue that the green-text mentions results in a dumbing-down of news and media and basically all kinds of information sharing…
This stuff negatively affects me in obvious and measurable ways, even though I don’t use any of the features of this ‘tool’.
KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
It’s a powerful tool, but the power isn’t yours.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
I myself feel conditioned to have it over a dumb phone. Companies and people assume that you have one, and the thing I find the most offending is obsessive QR overusage. I hate that.
If it’s on a banner or in a document, it rarely ever have plain text address. They are on all of my bills, as mobile banking is popular and you are supposed to trust it and open it in your banking app lol (although it’s payment info in a specific format, not a web link). It’s also used in 2FA\registration for apps and you can’t login into popular messengers without scanning a pattern and my workplaces used some of them for all internal communications. And whenever I scan anything or refuse, I see them everywhere, this sharp b\w noise that is not a part of a human world, but rather meant for machines. These technological shenanigans occupying the visual landscape is probably why I can jump from not wanting a smartphone myself to disliking others having them. And with how it locks you from pretty essential things I can see the next step is having government services only availiable in Zuckerberg’s Metaverse. That’s when I’d call quit on that fuckyverse.
/rant
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 13 hours ago
I think QR codes are cool because it’s literal computer data in ink. You can draw a QR code with a pencil if you know how to encode the data. It’s like a punch card, a physical manifestation of digital data.
However using a QR code is really freaking annoying, especially if you have a cheaper phone. I always configure my phone to only show the encoded string and not click the links because fuck normalizing blindly clicking links
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I used one of those promos to get a bunch of free stickers made and I did a QR code to lemon party with my friends Instagram at the bottom. I travel a lot for work so I was going to post them up everywhere. Unfortunately I got them printed in yellow which made the QR code not work.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I find them really fascinating, especially their error-correcting, but I do find them weird occupying every banner without any alternative and trashing our human world with too much of them, outside of the discussion of them being too much needed for functioning in our society.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
network effects
Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I just got a new phone and someone asked me “do you like it?” I hesitated to answer and they assumed “that’s a no”. Well, not really, it works well and does what I need it to. But do I like it? Not really, its a tool of necessity for operating in modern society. I like my steam deck, I like my speakers, I like my bike, but liking my phone is sort of similar to liking my work laptop. It’s just a thing I have to have or be really very inconvenienced.
timestatic@feddit.org 19 hours ago
I would say that it is also a fault of the device if it encourages this brain-dead overindulgence that is clearly of the interest of many big advertisement companies. You can choose a device and OS tho and install apps that lessen the effect, but an simpler phone might not have all the bells and whistles but can get you quite far without offering such a possibility to lose hours off your brain just turned off.
Lauchs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A lot of those are problems caused by phones regardless of whether one uses one themselves.
But for the personal ones, there are self aware addicts of all kinds. Smokers know cigarettes are killing them, complain about them, sometimes even hard them can’t stop.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s a fair and well measured response. It begs the question of what we can do as individuals, and when it comes to smart phones I don’t think there’s much.
Lauchs@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Thanks, I basically agree with you.
Like most of the tragic collective action problems (climate change, sweatshops etc) I’m just trying to moderate as best I can for my own soul/health and try not to be too sad about it.