This is a very interesting sociological question to pose these days.  Why is everyone always on their phone?

I was in my friend's basement a few weeks ago.  There were 10 of us there, and every single one of us had a blackberry.  Why?

You go out and you see four people sitting at a table at a fastfood place... ALL on their phone.  They're not even talking to each other?  What is wrong with the world?

This ad sums it up very well imo;



I'm not saying this Windows Phone will actually save the world from phones, but at least it recognizes the problems.  The irony here is that this phone will probably only add to the problems in the world regarding phones.

EVERYONE is always on their phone... yet ironically again, it is making us less able to communicate.  There is no emotion involved in texting and bbming and whateverMing.  We are becoming robots.

Not only this, the UN recently issued a call for all countries to ban texting while driving because it is more dangerous than driving drunk and these days it actually causes more accidents & deaths.

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Possibly the most frightening figure in all this discussion is this;

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It is a problem that is truly taking over the world.  4.6billion.  That means people who live off of $1000/year in Africa are on cell phones instead of talking with the same problems we have here.  We are slowly forgetting about AIDS, poverty, war, famine and all that shit, and only starting to care about "OMG LOL BARBIE SENT ME THIS SEXT LOOK AT HER BEWBS!!!111"

It really saddens me to see the world has degenerated this far.  I for one am unsubscribing to my mobile service provider and boycotting all usage of cellular phones.

I am posting this on all forums of which I am a member and I hope you guys follow me in my protest.

So you're a little corporate bitch.  Nice.

An example of Toms work. (note the emotion in the text)

You made my day, Clarky

nice troll Goose

Jerry nails the issue here:



And here (though there's some overlap with other vid)

I agree so much with Goose, I can't even describe it.. Everybody is always busy with their phone, half of the time you speak with a person you are actually talking to a phone in front of the face of the other... disgusting

Don't really agree. It's just the boring people that are always obsessed with their phones. When i go out with buddies i usually don't touch my phone a lot.

If i'm alone and bored i'll use my phone all the time. What's wrong with sitting in the train, reading the news on your phone?

I use my phone for: calling, texting, news, internet, checking my stocks, google maps, navigation, email, foursquare etc etc.

Great device  

I guess from now on I'll avoid carrying my phone with me in social situations.  That way I can have an excuse for staring off into space.

Yeah Patricio, exactly.  And even if the film wasn't that interesting, it was probably more interesting than her blank phone every 30 seconds.

Even if it wasn't blank she was probably texting some guy who is in her friendzone when he wants to sex her, or texting her friend about a similar situation.

What a waste of life.  Girls should be banned from having cell phones until they are 25 years old.

in fairness dirt floors are pretty easy because you dont need to sweep them or mop them.

Harvey Kartel wrote on 11/09/10 at 22:14:44:


You know that someday, the Sun will explode and the Earth will no longer exist?
And do you know 100 years ago they didn't have any fastfood?
And do you know 500 years ago there wasn't any United States of America?
And do you know you didn't exist around 30 years ago?
And do you know it's way faster and cheaper to have a cellphone than to use pay phones, and the cellphone is generally faster and cheaper to do many things that were done more slowly and more expensively in the past?

Does all this make any new thing shit just because... it's new?

Harvey Kartel wrote on 11/09/10 at 22:14:44:


Maybe you should move to mongolia harvey.

I heard there's no electricity over there, must be heaven.