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Old 12-17-2023, 02:27 PM   #11969
Dion
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Well that makes sense. But the double-edged sword is that while you only have it to text/phone, people keep it in them for basically the same reason. Next thing you know, you’re bored in a waiting room and browsing CP, or Twitter or whatever and the slippery slope begins.
That slippery slope is something I want to avoid. My computer usage at home has taught me how easily it can become an addiction where you spend too much time on it. Something I addressed months ago.

I sometimes see couples out for dinner and when you look over they're busy with their phones as opposed to talking to one another. Like why bother going out for dinner in the first place?

Here's an example that I struggle with. A good friend and myself have a long standing dispute that needed to be settled. He wanted to do it via text and I said no. I went onto say that a in person conversation needed to happen. That way you can see a persons body language and facial expressions that come with that discussion. He said no.

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I also think that people expect you to have your phone. Like 20 years ago, you could phone someone and not reach them. You were OK with that. Today, we all know the guy actually has email (even when the out of office says you don’t, but you just can’t bring yourself to say “I’m taking a break”). We all want to be able to text people and when they don’t respond we wonder why not. To me, that’s the real poison of the cell phone.
I agree that people expect you to have a phone, which I why I have one. It becomes a problem for me when friends get upset when I don't respond immediately to their text. They don't seem to understand that maybe I was busy at the time or maybe for example I was taking a nap due to a migraine I'm dealing with. I always tell them I will respond when I have the time.
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