Are You Addicted To Your Smart phone?

[Kyle_Le_Don]

http://m.fastcompany.com/3030003/work-smart/my-life-without-a-smartphone

http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/addicted-your-smartphone-what-to-do?page=6

Personally I've grown to understand it that I have a very! addictive personality (Mums Side) so I'm starting to listen to myself more by stopping over indulging in Everything I LIKE leaving little room for creativity.

I'm courageously letting go and getting me other half to stamp the shitterchips outta my Smart Phone!

Being replaced with an old cheap flip phone... which I remember at one point being well expensive!!

Bonne nuit!

Peace

[Captain...]

Completely agree

Sent from my iPhone 5s

[Rincewind]

What's a Smart Phone? Is there any difference to a phone that you can make and receive calls apart from the cost and for the status symbol?.

[Ian W LCFC]

What's a Smart Phone? Is there any difference to a phone that you can make and receive calls apart from the cost and for the status symbol?.

There is quite a big difference yeh.

[Guest Col city fan]

Yes.. never off the fookin addictive thing!! Even FM has taken a back seat..

[Unabomber]

Only a few apps.

[Fox92]

Wouldn't say I'm addicted. I play the apps when I'm bored/nothing else to do. It's used for contacting people and playing music the most.

[OzFox]

I don't even own a smart phone.

I'm surrounded by computers all day at work and I can't see the point of paying extra to be connected to the internet 24/7.

I get no end of comments about my ancient Nokia. It seems to wind people up no end that I haven't been sucked in

I even still use a camera to take photographs. Clearly I'm some sort of dinosaur...

[SOCCERROO FOX]

I do everything on my smart phone and you literally can do everything.

Pick up women (well some of them don't reasonable women), Tinder.

Have a punt: numerous apps

Banking: Banks App.

Book Flights: skyscraper

Hotels: Hotels Combined

Numerous sports apps

book cabs

I even check the traffic with an app before I leave for work.

Order takeaway on line with my phone

Entertainment, Elephant tube

[Bellend Sebastian]

What's a Smart Phone? Is there any difference to a phone that you can make and receive calls apart from the cost and for the status symbol?.

It's basically a small (or not so small) touch screen computer that can work as a phone. They're so commonplace now that I'm not sure how much of a status symbol they are these days.

Needn't be absurdly expensive now either - my last phone cost the same as my original Nokia brick - £99.99.

And yes, I am addicted to mine. I must be, because I'm not happy with the amount of time I find myself fiddling about with it (the phone) but am struggling to stop

[indierich06]

I'm definitely addicted to mine, I work in social media and I'm always 'on' really. Need to keep up with breaking/emerging trends, keep an eye on issues for my clients etc.

But even outside of that, I use my iPhone and iPad far too much. I'm trying to cut down the amount of time I spend on them, because it really does feel like life is passing me by a bit while I stare at some little black screen. I'm actively trying to dedicate more time to my hobbies and doing stuff a bit more worthwhile/creative now.

[Captain...]

Completely agree

Sent from my iPhone 5s

As much as that was a bit of a joke, I was lying in bed reading FT on my phone when I should have been asleep.

I think it has affected my concentration, when I am watching TV I can't get through half an hour without playing with my phone, unless it is something like Game of Thrones, Sport is the worst for it, except Leicester games. You'll hear a stat or they will mention a previous match and you start thinking who was that that scored that goal back in the day. Or when Lineker mentioned Shearer kicking Lennon in the head first thing I did was post a comment about it on here, then found the video on youtube, then checked back on here to see if anyone had commented on my comment, then got distracted by other posts on here, then before I knew it it was half time.

I have also committed the cardinal sin of sitting on the sofa with the missus, TV on, neither of us watching it both looking at our phones, not talking.

I try to avoid it, but it is so distracting even when you switch off all alerts except text messages, you get a text then you see you have e-mails, facebook messages, whatsapp messages and all of a sudden you are sucked into the internet time vampire of looking at things just because you can. So much information so little time...

[bovril]

I still use an old Nokia that does everything I want it to and also could come in handy if I ever need to fight off muggers.

I want to try and go through life never owning any kind of smart phone.

[Bellend Sebastian]

As much as that was a bit of a joke, I was lying in bed reading FT on my phone when I should have been asleep.

I think it has affected my concentration, when I am watching TV I can't get through half an hour without playing with my phone, unless it is something like Game of Thrones, Sport is the worst for it, except Leicester games. You'll hear a stat or they will mention a previous match and you start thinking who was that that scored that goal back in the day. Or when Lineker mentioned Shearer kicking Lennon in the head first thing I did was post a comment about it on here, then found the video on youtube, then checked back on here to see if anyone had commented on my comment, then got distracted by other posts on here, then before I knew it it was half time.

I have also committed the cardinal sin of sitting on the sofa with the missus, TV on, neither of us watching it both looking at our phones, not talking.

I try to avoid it, but it is so distracting even when you switch off all alerts except text messages, you get a text then you see you have e-mails, facebook messages, whatsapp messages and all of a sudden you are sucked into the internet time vampire of looking at things just because you can. So much information so little time...

That's pretty much my relationship with my phone.

I did have a plan to just put it on the side when I get in and only look at it if it actually does something, which I have of course completely failed to do.

I even bought a clock radio - which is shit - so I don't have to use the alarm on my phone and therefore don't have to have the phone in the bedroom, but it still follows me up there

[Jon the Hat]

Totally addicited. Im on here, facebook, twitter or a news app. Or reading on the Kindle app. My wife wants to kill me for it most of the time.

[OzFox]

I have also committed the cardinal sin of sitting on the sofa with the missus, TV on, neither of us watching it both looking at our phones, not talking.

I try to avoid it, but it is so distracting even when you switch off all alerts except text messages, you get a text then you see you have e-mails, facebook messages, whatsapp messages and all of a sudden you are sucked into the internet time vampire of looking at things just because you can. So much information so little time...

I see the same thing in restaurants from time to time. Couples sitting there not communicating, both gawping at their smartphones.

I still use an old Nokia that does everything I want it to and also could come in handy if I ever need to fight off muggers.

I want to try and go through life never owning any kind of smart phone.

I'm with you brother

[Captain...]

I see the same thing in restaurants from time to time. Couples sitting there not communicating, both gawping at their smartphones.

I'm with you brother

Never done it in a restaurant, I've seen it though, we've both decided that if we end up like that then it is probably time to split up.

I do try not to use it in public, except to settle arguments, sometimes I will use it in the pub, if someone goes to the toilet/bar/for a smoke, and it's just 2 of you, I instinctively get the phone out to kill a bit of time.

[Stadt]

I've only watched about half if the World Cup because instead of watching the game I just sit there writing about it.

I'm us usually on the the toilet for about 20 minutes because I'm using my phone.

[OzFox]

Never done it in a restaurant, I've seen it though, we've both decided that if we end up like that then it is probably time to split up.

I do try not to use it in public, except to settle arguments, sometimes I will use it in the pub, if someone goes to the toilet/bar/for a smoke, and it's just 2 of you, I instinctively get the phone out to kill a bit of time.

To be honest, I do that with my Nokia. Either sending texts or reading old ones.

I bet there's some nasty health side effects from all this tech addiction. Lack of exercise and broken sleep patterns for starters. That goes for computers in general, not just smart phones.

[Kyle_Le_Don]

I think a lot of it is being able to find the balance but I know myself I'm not able to do this I'm too easily side tracked into looking into things on it!

And then being impatient when something doesn't load fast enough the amount of time I must have wasted just waiting for something as small as that I probably could have learned French!! Ha

Played a little game on the way work today to see how many people have there phones to hand it really is UNREAL!

Beam me up Scotty....

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

I do spend too much time on mine, but I often leave it at home while I'm out and I won't dick about on it when with friends or while eating etc like some folk do

It always astounds me what you can do with these things. For the price of a phone 3 or 4 years ago that could call, text and let you navigate about 1% of the internet, you've now also got full internet use, satnav, TV (live/on demand/internet), music, camera, games, video calling, universal remote control, torch, compass, scanner, AR, video output, alarm, calculator, notepad, email, radio… God knows what they'll be like in 10 years time.

[Charl91]

Nope, don't own a smart phone. Nothing about them particularly excites me, and I don't have a spare £500 to throw away, especially at the rate I lose/break phones. As long as I can ring and text people, I don't really care.

[James.]

As usual Banksy caught the mood pretty well with a recent piece of his.

[James.]

Captain Shrap summed it up pretty well for me earlier. At least now however I am very aware of the time I spend on it.

I've gone through the ignorantly addicted phase, then the denial phase (insisting to my mrs that I wasn't addicted but still clearly hopelessly addicted) and I'm now reached the awareness phase where I'm trying however feebly to do something about it.

Using it in a restaurant with my mrs (when she was on hers at the same time) is probably when I hit rock bottom. And like CS said earlier not being able to watch more than 10 minutes of pretty much anything on TV before I'm mindlessly looking at Instagram or WhatsApp or Email or Foxestalk or whatever else I find myself on.

One of the worst things is when you find yourself just scrolling through your apps not even choosing one just staring and hoping for some kind of inspiration. That really does depress me.

[Jon the Hat]

Captain Shrap summed it up pretty well for me earlier. At least now however I am very aware of the time I spend on it.

I've gone through the ignorantly addicted phase, then the denial phase (insisting to my mrs that I wasn't addicted but still clearly hopelessly addicted) and I'm now reached the awareness phase where I'm trying however feebly to do something about it.

Using it in a restaurant with my mrs (when she was on hers at the same time) is probably when I hit rock bottom. And like CS said earlier not being able to watch more than 10 minutes of pretty much anything on TV before I'm mindlessly looking at Instagram or WhatsApp or Email or Foxestalk or whatever else I find myself on.

One of the worst things is when you find yourself just scrolling through your apps not even choosing one just staring and hoping for some kind of inspiration. That really does depress me.

Err this.