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Wait, so the purpose of a phone isn't to catch Pokemon?

Hahaha.  I swear I'm going to be sooooo disappointed if there's no Pokémon Go player on this year's Darwin Awards list.

Now this thread is why I love the HoM!! I have a fb account. Since I don't text or have a "smart" phone I use it as an ad hoc texting tool to keep up with my Fantasy Football league and my neighborhood has a group. One rule I had when getting on fb was keeping my "friends" total to 50 or less.

I have no interest or need for any of the rest.

HAHAHA!  I don't have a smart phone either.  I spend all freakin' day online on a computer every day so why on earth would I want to spend even more time online on my phone.  All I have is a Samsung flip phone that I got free with my Sprint account about 8 years ago.  Funny thing is that I saw an item on the news that flip phones are making a comeback because people don't like how big smart phones have become.

I just got a message from a guy saying he couldn't rip certain CDs because he didn't have a PC anymore, only a smartphone. I'm a laptop user myself. Sign of the times. But I'm not worried.

None whatsoever, Just a last.fm and a rateyourmusic but I forget I even have the latter.

If i wasn't running my own business, i wouldn't have a smartphone. It's a trap. I miss my old Nokia.

Yes and yes. Toho - that's how I am. For me, online time is a dedicated time at a dedicated place. I don't want/need the internet in my pocket. The douchebags at work who constantly mock me don't seem to grasp this.

Corplhicks- It is a trap. That's exactly right!

Outside of business needs - no one has yet explained to me what's so important that they are constantly talking/texting about, especially while driving. What is SO important? I think texting and driving is easily my biggest pet-peeve. Just so obviously dangerous, and so obviously unnecessary. Grr!!

I prefer texting over every other form of communication since it doesn't require proximity like conversations or being on the phone but texting and driving pisses me off too.

Texting while driving is definitely my biggest pet peeve.  I swear, if one day I'm waiting at a red light and I see some moron coming up behind me texting until he rear ends me, I'm going to jail because I will beat the snot out of that person.

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Yes and yes. Toho - that's how I am. For me, online time is a dedicated time at a dedicated place. I don't want/need the internet in my pocket. The douchebags at work who constantly mock me don't seem to grasp this.

Corplhicks- It is a trap. That's exactly right!

Outside of business needs - no one has yet explained to me what's so important that they are constantly talking/texting about, especially while driving. What is SO important? I think texting and driving is easily my biggest pet-peeve. Just so obviously dangerous, and so obviously unnecessary. Grr!!

I work production support and I work full time from home so I'm online at home at least 8 hours per day (usually closer to 9) so I'll be damned if I'm going to walk around doing more crap online on a frickin' phone.  And as you say Scott, what's is so damn important anyway????  Nothing.

Plus before I switched to business analysis instead of technical development, I used to have to take a turn being on call using (you guessed it), a smart phone.  I hated being on call and I absolutely hated the on call smart phone.  So now every time I see one all those memories of 2am alarms going off come flooding back.  No thanks.

akeldama wrote:

None whatsoever, Just a last.fm and a rateyourmusic but I forget I even have the latter.

This applies to me too. I use last.fm quite a lot though.

Gotta disagree on the smartphone thing. Maybe a few weeks ago I would have agreed but I recently got given a phone for work and they only give out very functional pre smart phones to stop us from attempting to do anything fun on them. It was a nightmare, I'd completely forgotten what a mammoth pain in the arse it was just trying to send a text on one of those things and I also fruitlessly tapped the screen before remembering that it wasn't touch screen!

I have now put the work sim in an old Iphone and that hunk of crap is in a draw!

When I am not on my PC I am using my smart phone. It's taken the place of my laptop pretty much. I also have a couple tablets but they don't keep a charge like my phone.

I have Twitter, FB, IG, and Pinterest accounts. I never use Pinterest. I don't know why I have an account, tbh. I rarely use IG. I don't like it. I'm on Twitter and FB everyday. I'm also on reddit all the time.

I have facebook and twitter...