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JEREMY HAWKE

JEREMY HAWKE

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    My wife kicked me
    She bloody kicked me :confused::confused:
    In a restaurant !
    Not because I was on my phone !

    She was trying to make me aware of the couple on the next table that had been glued to their phones all night ignoring their poor little boy and each other !
    The lad could have done a runner and they would have known nothing about it !
    On my travels I have noticed this even more since !

    Im only using my phone in public for gassing now ! I dont want that to be me :confused::confused:
     
    JEREMY HAWKE said:
    She was trying to make me aware of the couple on the next table that had been glued to their phones all night ignoring their poor little boy and each other !
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    First time I saw this behaviour the children also had screens which kept them absorbed.
     
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    People are generally bemused when they ask for my mobile number. I tell them that my phone is for me making calls not other people phoning me.
     
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    atmosbob said:
    People are generally bemused when they ask for my mobile number. I tell them that my phone is for me making calls not other people phoning me.
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    This p$$es me off I dont like giving out my mobile !

    We have an office number or email
     
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    I suspect that they spend so much time on games and (anty)social media. As for social media, their business model is dependent on engagement. I heard two good quotes regarding Facebook but I think they can describe to some degree how the other other social media work:

    "A democracy destroying app that maximises time on site as part of its ad model through AI optimisation of the news feed to the thing that makes people spend most time on site which is usually them being limbically hijacked more than something else which ends up appealing to people’s cognitive biases and group identities and creates no sense of shared reality."     [Daniel Schmachtenberger]

    "Facebook is designed to monopolise attention. Just taking all of the basic tricks of propaganda, marrying them to the tricks of casino gambling, and basically playing on instincts, and fear and anger are the two most dependable ways of doing that. [...] And so they created a set of tools to allow advertisers to exploit that emotional audience with individual-level targeting." [Roger McNamee (Early Facebook Investor)]

    Games are great but they are also designed to keep players addicted to dopamine hits.

    I would add, to games and social media, YouTube's recommendations. Fortunately, there is a recommendation blocker that can be installed :)
     
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    I use mine for checking orders, listening to books, reading books, doing cross stitch (its an app) and very occasionally doing a phone call. Plus checking emails and responding to enquiries.
    Must do less than a couple of hours of calls. And about 10 texts. That's all per month.
    That's on my personal mobile.

    Work mobile I can be doing 4 hours of calls / meetings on the phone, perhaps 3 or 4 emails and maybe a couple of texts telling people I will call back later.
    Per day.

    Other days the phone may not ring, no meetings and I don't need to call anyone. Rare but does happen - zero work mobile use.


    I don't use social media much anymore. Think I've been on facebook for around half an hour this year. Never bother with twitter.
     
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    atmosbob said:
    People are generally bemused when they ask for my mobile number. I tell them that my phone is for me making calls not other people phoning me.
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    Fair enough.
    I prefer people phoning on my mobile. Most of the week I refuse the call and get back to them at the weekend.
     
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    atmosbob said:
    First time I saw this behaviour the children also had screens which kept them absorbed.
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    Often have seen people who have a £500 plus mobile phone they give the 2 year old kid to play with to keep them quiet.
    I had to make do with a cheap toy phone on wheels when I were 2. No one would have thought of giving the kids expensive toys to play with that are easily thrown or stood on....
     
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    I live by my mobile, but as a tool for work.
    It's my diary, my life is run by my diary sadly every day all scheduled out from appointments to my To Do list. Our business workflow and project planner app (Jira) is on my phone, and Office365/Sharepoint for other work items.
    We use Teams for business calls, which is also installed on my phone. We don't have any landlines in the office and I don't have a landline at home either, so if someone needs to call me it's either my mobile number or my Teams phone number, both ring my mobile.
    I also don't carry a wallet, no cards and no cash. I use my mobile for paying for anything and also for tickets - so travel pretty light too.

    I still use my mobile less than my kids :eek:
     
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    I once went to a birthday dinner at a restaurant, not mine. I was sat next to a guy who spent the evening following 3 football matches. That's rude.
     
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    I went to a big old conference in Brighton a few years back, big round tables nice social gathering, meet new faces you know the drill. You could have heard a pin drop in the hall everyone at the tables were on their phone doing God knows what the art of conversation seems to be dead, unless of course you’re messaging the person on the next table.
     
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    I first came across this at the Dubai Golf Club. Four local guys arrived at a table on the terrace below ours, shook hands and sat down. They all started talking on their phones while drinking coffee. After about 40 minutes they got up, shook hands and walked away. We didn't see them talk to each other at all. Weird.
     
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    It's not just out and about on mobiles, the office environment has changed too. I remember the buzz of the office, then email came along and the office got quieter and quieter as people turned to communicating by email instead of calling them up.
    I find now in my office I'll get a Teams message pinged to me from across the office, and I either call my answer across or get up and walk round to the persons desk. Not every often, but I see it as my duty to remind them of the art of conversation when there's a slip :D
     
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    I assume, in my simplistic take on the world that it is one of these reasons:

    1. An unfortunate addiction, for which help is yet to become adequately available.

    2. For most people, whatever is happening on the phone is more interesting than what is happening around them. If this is the case, I would recommend going to the more interesting thing. Especially, I recommend that if, on a date with your husband/wife, you find your phone content more interesting that you seek an immediate divorce in order to free them.
     
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    Paul Norman said:
    An unfortunate addiction, for which help is yet to become adequately available.
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    It is programmed into social media and games that they are to be addictive, so anyone with an even remotely addictive personality becomes addicted to their phone. If a phone did nothing more than make and receive calls the problem wouldn't exist but now they are mini computers connected permanently to the www for all its glory.
     
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    Ozzy said:
    It is programmed into social media and games that they are to be addictive, so anyone with an even remotely addictive personality becomes addicted to their phone. If a phone did nothing more than make and receive calls the problem wouldn't exist but now they are mini computers connected permanently to the www for all its glory.
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    Yes. They are. And aside from my tongue in cheek comments, I think it is a potential problem. People are imbibing an unbroken stream of stuff, and cumulatively that feeds disinformation, angst, over reactions and more.
     
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    It's becoming more common knowledge now that the algorithm that was written by Facebook to bring like minded individuals together with a common interest, is bringing like minded individuals together with a common interest; that reaffirms their believes they are right and is feeding extremist views on anything. Interesting documentary on Netflix on the subject, actually there's a few.
     
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    I’ve seen such females - there seems to be something about taking photos of themselves that makes them attempt to look like a duck. Never quite worked that one out…
     
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