Remember The Good Old Days Of The Humble Cell Phone?

The good old days where you had spare time!

Let's be honest. When most of us got our first cell phone, we did 3 things:

1. We used it for making and receiving ( emergency ) calls.
2. Texting friends at the oddest hours and the elite few did it in predictive mode. Gosh, until I learned to text in predictive, I was so jealous of those who could!
3. We showed off like crazy to all and sundry that we had a cell phone. Of course back then it didn't fit into the tiny jeans pockets. It wasn't called a brick for nothing. It was so bulky and heavy that it would have pulled our pants down...

Hard to think that this was only about the mid 90's. Even then, when the odd few were predicting a form of smartphone, it was thought to be a pie in the sky. A mini computer as your phone, we mostly didn't see the need. Yet, somehow the smart people at those smartphone companies made sure that we felt the need for it!

When I first heard talk of watching TV through a smartphone, I thought; ' That is crazy, what on earth can you see on such a small screen? '. What do I know? It seems that just about everyone is doing it now.

A friend of mine stated an interesting deed on Facebook. She ( bravely ) deleted most of her Apps from her smartphone. She realized how these Apps were making her loose out on precious real-life moments.

When you go anywhere, even here in our little village, the smartphone is omnipresent. At times it's in its docking station ( pants / shirt pocket ) but more often than not, it is being used. Be honest, when you see a car drive past with a family in it, are all heads up? No, there are always one or two looking down at the smartphone.

It doesn't matter where they are, even in the midst of anything beautiful and worthwhile, they heed the call of " nature " and look at their inbox. Oh yes, time you can't get back.

Before the advent of Apps, however did we navigate our way through life successfully? In fact, the lure of Apps makes us forget how to manage our own life and precious moments of our time are used to look at the smartphone instead of smelling the roses...

Biggi