i commented on a post about using "dumb" trackers vs smart watches... people need to learn self control.
i have never had a facebook, instagram, tiktok or whatever account. if you did and dont like it.. uninstall it
i have no desire to follow updatesand feeds.
but i love my smart phone. i do like the ability to read, watch, or play a game when i have time. i dont have constant notifications. anything that isnt calk, text, ir set reminder , i turn off. why is it such an epidemic that people have such little control?
i remember ther was this big "news" event where people talked about putting their phones away for dinner and how it changed everything. why was that evet a thing?
our kids have never had phones out during dinner. i am 50 and obviously we didnt have those devices growing up but why would the introduction of these devices change anything? dinner is family time to discuss tour day. it always has been. i vould rant more but i am just tired.
I dunno, this is arguably more self control than ignoring the phone. They're so dedicated to controlling it, they're giving up all the perks of owning a smartphone
Also, you're 50. You had no pressure to get on social media through school so never having installed them isn't surprising at all. And frankly, social media is incredible for...being social... when you're in college
You have self control not to drink at a bar. You also have self control to not go to the bar because you know you'll drink. It's controlling a different thing but it's still control
College was actually awesome with early social media. Organizing stuff was soooo easy and having what is effectively a group calendar was incredible. I've been off the site for over a decade but I made a TON of friends on there that I would have never run into on campus otherwise
early stuff was good. I remember when there was this idea that you control your data and hos tit where you want. never happened but that's how we saw the future in our pollyanna minds.
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terabyterex@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d
i commented on a post about using "dumb" trackers vs smart watches... people need to learn self control.
i have never had a facebook, instagram, tiktok or whatever account. if you did and dont like it.. uninstall it
i have no desire to follow updatesand feeds.
but i love my smart phone. i do like the ability to read, watch, or play a game when i have time. i dont have constant notifications. anything that isnt calk, text, ir set reminder , i turn off. why is it such an epidemic that people have such little control?
i remember ther was this big "news" event where people talked about putting their phones away for dinner and how it changed everything. why was that evet a thing?
our kids have never had phones out during dinner. i am 50 and obviously we didnt have those devices growing up but why would the introduction of these devices change anything? dinner is family time to discuss tour day. it always has been. i vould rant more but i am just tired.
Sxan@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 1d
"I can use cocaine responsibly, why can't everyone else? They just need to learn self control."
terabyterex@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
using a smart phone isnt equivelant to cocaine. i wasnt advocaying using social media
glimse@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d
I dunno, this is arguably more self control than ignoring the phone. They're so dedicated to controlling it, they're giving up all the perks of owning a smartphone
Also, you're 50. You had no pressure to get on social media through school so never having installed them isn't surprising at all. And frankly, social media is incredible for...being social... when you're in college
terabyterex@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
thats actually the opposite of self control. they are removing the ability so they take control away.
also that college thing sounds awful but goid to know for my kids
glimse@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
You have self control not to drink at a bar. You also have self control to not go to the bar because you know you'll drink. It's controlling a different thing but it's still control
College was actually awesome with early social media. Organizing stuff was soooo easy and having what is effectively a group calendar was incredible. I've been off the site for over a decade but I made a TON of friends on there that I would have never run into on campus otherwise
terabyterex@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
early stuff was good. I remember when there was this idea that you control your data and hos tit where you want. never happened but that's how we saw the future in our pollyanna minds.