Do you use a smartphone?

PHONE BAD

Software they running is absolute garbage, so the answer is "no".

>Not a single nigger in sight
Seems like the systems are working perfectly

Sort of. I have a hand-me-down but I don't have service on it cause I call/text no one. I just use it for emails and calorie counting.

Maybe.

about three times a day and only to make phone calls.

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>kid is sad there isn't a fat redneck to punch in order to get lots of attention
makes me think

Yes
boomer tier shit

Ayn Rand fans

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>makes me think
Glad something can. We were beginning to think that nothing would.

The irony is that this piece of shit is shared all over the place in the main social media platforms.
Nobody is going to ever stop this, and no matter how much of an intellectual the people who share this shit everywhere, they will never become an overachiever or something.

Unless, of course, you could prove yourself worthy of the secret society that controls everything :^)

Wow, this really opens my eyes to the fact that we do indeed live in a society

>oog, stop looking at those cave paintings, go catch rat
>suriya, stop poking at those clay tablets
>nosiel, stop reading scrolls all day and help count the silver
>sitcoktet, stop scribbling those pictures on the wall and help me whip nosiel
>dick, put down that book and go outside
...

Yeah, have to. Family uses messengers and I track my calorie intake with myfitnesspal. Also audiobooks.

>I track my calorie intake with myfitnesspal
Can't you just avoid sweets and junk food?

the irony is randal is like one of the biggest sheep of them all though

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>implying smartphone users are doing anything even remotely as productive as any of those things

Sadly....
Can't find a music player thats looks nice and is ez to rockbox

Technically, yes. It sits idle all day on charge since any messages get forwarded to my computer.

I don't eat those, but still find it practical to track. Guess with time I'll just be able to calculate nutrition without any devices.

Benjie T6 aka AGPTEK Rocker

I've slapped smartphones out of clueless faggots' hands so many times when riding my bike, heaps of fun!

Most people who complain about this kind of shit do this anyways. We never stop to think for a minute that it's our fault and not the little fucking device. We're like children that just try to take the candy because it's right there, waiting for us, without giving a shit about the consequences.

Like parents that keep complaining that their kid can watch porn on the internet. Motherfucker be a parent. "I can't be a parent because--" then use a fucking condom you dickheads. Being parents ain't supposed to be easy and nobody's supposed to fully support your child for you.

Oh no, there's fast food places everywhere. It's their fault, I can't help shoving food up my butthole. Oh no there's a smartphone, it's their fault, they're giving me a service that I cannot refuse that allows me to detect which music is being played in the background, I definitely need that. And I need to answer to these 20 different people because, what will they think if I don't answer in the next 5 minutes to the stupid shit they have to say. Fuck that shit. Take responsibility. You have good tools that you're abusing and blaming it on the tools.

This, the tools are actually good. It's the people who are retarded.

We don't think it, we know it, buddy

One has to wonder what would have happened if the first instance of controlled fire was done by someone who thought "oh no this might burn I better put it the fuck down and prevent everyone else from doing it"

Ya, mainly for directions, music, podcasts and looking stuff up. Only people that I ever really text are family and co-workers. Just going to keep this current phone forever, since I am never really pushing it.

phone BAD
book GOOD
i SLEEP

Very, very based.
Very.

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that pic is true tho

>if you work, then you are an empty robot.
NEETs are truly retarded.

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I've always been anti-social, so everyone using smart phones in public places makes me fit in fucking perfectly. I have no excuse to ever interact with someone while waiting in a line since I can just pretend I'm doing something on my smart phone, and nobody will bat an eye because everyone else does it too!

it's perfect!

pol gone full retard

>brings up Ayn Rand for no reason whatsoever
did you get owned by a libertarian in a forum discussion ?

first letter is a capital one faggot! how new are you?

Enough to no first letter goes before second, normster.

I lived in the end of that era. Everyone would get the paper, read it, then start talking with everyone else around them. Sometimes one or more people would read something out loud to everyone else and everyone would turn to that page and follow along.

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NPCs don't have inner monologue though.

>Everyone would get the paper, read it, then start talking with everyone else around them.
The only way I can see that happening is if it was in some small local town where everyone knew each other.

In New York or any other busy place? Not a chance. It's just human nature to want to remain a passive bystander in a crowd.

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Newspapers usually don't send all your secrets to some company.

The only people I've legitimately seen staring at their phones and nearly dying/walking into traffic are actual, literal Boomers.

For calls, taking notes and reading books while waiting for appointments.
For anything else? Fuck no.

>not knowing what a boomer is

No no. I Know what a boomer is. And I mean it. They have almost no idea how a smartphone functions, so they'll literally cross the street staring/squinting at their device through their bifocals. Then as the bumble around and you almost hit them in the parking lot, they'll have the audacity to be angry with you.

You are mostly correct, I was in small town in diners and such. The same thing happened in DC at least.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers

Your meme died last week, fyi.

This is the limit of 20 year old boomer brains

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this
No need for some awkward smalltalk either, just keep earbuds on and stare at the screen pretending you are listening to some music.

No, it used to be a lot more normal to do small talk with strangers on public transport. I think smartphones did have an impact, but I think it’s mostly because everyone cultivates a self-image in which they’re charming hollywood stars and always have something interesting to talk about, so they think it’s cringe to talk about the weather or any baseline common topic. Also it doesn’t help that nobody gives two shits about politics anymore except for the extremist nut jobs, so you can’t talk about that.

We live in a society

Yes but it is only used to browse Jow Forums while traveling.

Yeah I call people and people call me.

Before the 90s?

Because after I gotta disagree. I've been using public transport for nearly 30 years (frequent enough that I know way too many fucking bus drivers) and things haven't changed just that much, except people usually look elsewhere and not at a screen. Most people don't do small talk because they don't find a good reason to. Some others because they're not as social and will keep themselves to their family, friends and coworkers, people they will see everyday. There's no "cringe" in talking about the weather, it's just that it's too much of a default topic that nobody really cares about unless it's really harsh.

Also it's not that nobody gives two shits about politics. It's that like you said, people can't be too open about it in front of extremists and they don't bother to avoid nonsensical confrontations. It's more about people being silent than not caring. Believe me people put too much fucking emphasis on politics these days. Too much.

no one actually thinks this though

>Believe me people put too much fucking emphasis on politics these days. Too much.
Because the internet became accessible to low IQ people

Well, that I don't disagree with. Internet brought a lot of change there, such as any tool that can give access to a person to talk to many more different people than just the 15 same old fuckers in the neighborhood.

Even though there were times before in which propaganda was rampant and politics infected everything, it's sort of like a wave. We're at the point at which it's intensified again, to where all kinds of media are highly political, to where instead of talking about the weather we have to talk about an orange man buying too much ice cream. People do care about these things. Just there's also trying to be a conformist to avoid trouble and you'll find workplaces, you'll find public transport where there's maybe one person talking to the driver about fucking commies or fucking nazis and nobody is gonna raise their voice because they don't want what happens after that.

And curiously enough, the youth that is more active is being pretty fucking silly about it, extremely hypocritical and uneducated, yell and demand things their ancestors never had, couldn't get without busting their balls or would refuse to have out of principle. So there's that too.

OMG so deep and philosophical

Based. Smartphones are an amazing tool with so many things that can enhance our lives, but most people are fucking stupid. I really don't care if people walk around stuck to their smartphones, but there's no questioning that the main things the majority of the population are using them for are pathetic wastes of bandwidth. Social media is mostly toxic, especially some of the ways it's being used. This is people's fault. The best we can do is build systems to exploit these idiots, and ignore it ourselves. I'm okay with this.

>implying without phones people would be more open to the world
Majority of population suffer from tunnel vision syndrome. When I was commuting to university, I noticed how people that literally walk same path as me fail to notice all things around them. New or closed shops, billboards, stray cats or birds - whenever I told them about something, they'd be surprised, since if it's not right under their feet, it doesn't exist.
Phone is simply a tool that fits perfectly into this tunnel of attention.

As dictator my first action will be to order every single smartphone destroyed.

Would you vote for me? Just kidding you don't get a vote, I'm going to be the dictator and I'm coming for your electronic ball and chain.