RE: The Deadpost Initiative - Week 34 - Share your most undervalued work ($24 SBD rewards last week)
When my smart phone broke, I felt completely isolated.
I was out to dinner with a boyfriend and all of his friends. I thought "no big deal, I'll have plenty of people to talk to anyway!"
And that was when I noticed that everyone... and I mean everyone was staring into their phones talking about what they were looking at. Or not talking at ALL. It was the most awkward I have ever felt. I remember trying to find something to do with my hands. So desperate that I even pulled out a pack of cigarettes and just held it like one would a phone.
It is insane when you think about how reliant everyone is on their cell phones for... well, everything.
Clicking on your post was an eye opener for me because it made me realize that I really do judge a book by it's cover all the time on steemit. I look at things that catch my eye.
And I am probably missing out on a lot of content because of that! Thanks for opening my eyes! (literally)
I feel that way most of the time too. That is why I'm either writing or reading something when I'm with my friends, 'cause I know very well that the default activity for this generation is staring into a device, which is something I can't do because I don't have one. Thanks for sharing your experience!
Did your time without the phone change anything for you?
It really made me realize what I look like and am missing when I am glued to my phone all the time. (total zombie)
It is a bad habit that I am still trying to break. Honestly, I should just get rid of the thing. It doesn't really do anything positive for me, besides ensure that people can reach me. But I so rarely use it for that.
It was my first experience in a long time where I saw how involved everyone gets in their tech that they don't even listen to one another. It is kind of surreal.