3 ms·

It's amazing how people freak out when they "can't get a hold of you," after being trained to expect instant responses via smartphones.

by _npe3 3y ago

decafninja 3y ago
It’s not instant responses. It’s more that the many peoples’ first line of communication is no longer voice calls, and old fashioned SMS doesn’t cut it either. The price of participating in society is to conform to it. You can choose not to, but then you are choosing to live with the consequences. It’s up to you to decide whether it’s worth it, but it’s also society’s decision to whether it’s worth putting up with your eccentricities.
- _npe3 3y ago
  Hmm maybe in your experience. I don't know anyone who can't or wont use sms instead of an online messenger. The consistent complaint is that they can't get ahold of me as fast as they used to, because I'm not glued to my phone anymore. Also, I find it kind of interesting that you equate "owning a smartphone," with "participating in society." I participate in society just fine without a smartphone, and in fact most people are very impressed that I ditched the smartphone and say they wish they could do the same, but of course, "they can't." Voice calls aren't good enough for people anymore. SMS "doesn't cut it." These are just excuses. Unless you can't afford a phone plan, and rely on your smartphone for its wi-fi capabilities, i would say it is fact YOU, the smartphone owner, who are demanding unreasonable things of me, the dumbphone owner.
  - decafninja 3y ago
    Smartphone owners have no right to demand anything of you. It’s your freedom to use a dumbphone. Along the same lines, why should you, the dumbphone owner in the stark minority, expect the majority to cater to any of your whims? If the majority consider you a burden to include in their communications because they have to go the extra mile, that’s on you, not them. If not, more power to you. I had a longer reply, but probably most of it is irrelevant. In any case, everyone’s social circle is different, but this is the general observation I see everywhere around me both on and offline.
    - _npe3 3y ago
      Because it's my right to live in a society that doesn't force me to own a tracking device just to be able to do anything. The "burden" you talk about is not real. It's just people's attention spans getting shorter and shorter, and as that is normalized, they stop thinking of it as a problem. The burden is in fact on me, a I have to deal with a bunch of dopamine addicts who have lost their ability to reason on the subject. I call people all the time. They love it! They realize they honestly have forgotten what it's like to be in connection with a human voice when we communicate. Most people around me will admit they hate their smartphones. Somehow I am the only one who has figured out how to exist without one. I mean really. "Go the extra mile." That's what we call taking 5 seconds to send a text or a phone call now.

It's amazing how people freak out when they "can't get a hold of you," after being trained to expect instant responses via smartphones.

by _npe3 3y ago

It's amazing how people freak out when they "can't get a hold of you," after being trained to expect instant responses via smartphones.

decafninja 3y ago

It’s not instant responses. It’s more that the many peoples’ first line of communication is no longer voice calls, and old fashioned SMS doesn’t cut it either. The price of participating in society is to conform to it. You can choose not to, but then you are choosing to live with the consequences. It’s up to you to decide whether it’s worth it, but it’s also society’s decision to whether it’s worth putting up with your eccentricities.

_npe3 3y ago
Hmm maybe in your experience. I don't know anyone who can't or wont use sms instead of an online messenger. The consistent complaint is that they can't get ahold of me as fast as they used to, because I'm not glued to my phone anymore. Also, I find it kind of interesting that you equate "owning a smartphone," with "participating in society." I participate in society just fine without a smartphone, and in fact most people are very impressed that I ditched the smartphone and say they wish they could do the same, but of course, "they can't." Voice calls aren't good enough for people anymore. SMS "doesn't cut it." These are just excuses. Unless you can't afford a phone plan, and rely on your smartphone for its wi-fi capabilities, i would say it is fact YOU, the smartphone owner, who are demanding unreasonable things of me, the dumbphone owner.
- decafninja 3y ago
  Smartphone owners have no right to demand anything of you. It’s your freedom to use a dumbphone. Along the same lines, why should you, the dumbphone owner in the stark minority, expect the majority to cater to any of your whims? If the majority consider you a burden to include in their communications because they have to go the extra mile, that’s on you, not them. If not, more power to you. I had a longer reply, but probably most of it is irrelevant. In any case, everyone’s social circle is different, but this is the general observation I see everywhere around me both on and offline.
  - _npe3 3y ago
    Because it's my right to live in a society that doesn't force me to own a tracking device just to be able to do anything. The "burden" you talk about is not real. It's just people's attention spans getting shorter and shorter, and as that is normalized, they stop thinking of it as a problem. The burden is in fact on me, a I have to deal with a bunch of dopamine addicts who have lost their ability to reason on the subject. I call people all the time. They love it! They realize they honestly have forgotten what it's like to be in connection with a human voice when we communicate. Most people around me will admit they hate their smartphones. Somehow I am the only one who has figured out how to exist without one. I mean really. "Go the extra mile." That's what we call taking 5 seconds to send a text or a phone call now.