Originally Posted By: dailydriver
Originally Posted By: andrewg
Is this an anti-flip phone rant or what? I'm lost....must be because I'm over 50.
I have a flip phone. Many people want to know why I have an old style flip phone from Tracfone when I could get a smart phone. They often laugh at me when they see me making a call. I just smile and rhetorically ask them if they like my expensive, "high tech" device. I have one because it is cheap, doesn't have 673 different functions I have no use for, and I can carry it without looking like I have a clipboard in my pocket.
Truth is...I DESPISE smart phones. They are a huge annoyance and burden in my opinion. Big, clumsy, and you look like a goofball with your cranium bent forward, fingers flailing as you text/scroll through meaningless messages. Life is OUT THERE....not in that silly little device people carry around like pacifiers.
I carry a cheap flip phone only for emergencies or if I am expecting a call I do not want to miss. I don't need to see Facebook every five minutes....no tweeting....no useless text messages or beeping, jingling, bells or whistles to annoy me. I really don't know why people like that stuff. It's as though they haven't a brain anymore and need a smart phone to guide them through the next fifteen minutes of life. Weird. So dependent.
We agree on SO little, but the above is one of those glaring exceptions, and I could NOT have stated it any better myself!
Except to add that sadly, they are considered so requisite to life nowadays that you see ads/advice which states "you can scan it on your smart/iPhone".
Thus making the ASSUMPTION that IF you are currently living in this country, you MUST MUST have one of these devices in order to even survive, let alone be "hip" or "cool".
No...we don't agree on much....but we did finally find something.
I know what you say about the assumption that we all have smart phones. It's annoying when I'm speaking to a person face to face and they want me to use a smart phone for some idiotic "app" they have. I just look at them and tell them I prefer not to use gizmos. The other day I was asked for some phone number/address info from a bank employee. I was looking for it and the employee say's..."Why don't you just store it on your phone?" I pulled out a piece of paper from my wallet with the info I needed and said..."Well, a paper and pen still works...and it's doesn't cost me hundreds of dollars while annoying me with bells and buzzers all day". I get a look like I stepped out of 1925 or something.
Been there done that several times!
