Most of us love our phones and cannot seem to do without them. We need them for communicating with others, for news updates, entertainment, directions to places, traffic updates, information of all kinds, tips, advice… you name it! And yet there are some irritating and annoying things that your phone does and does not do as well. Can you identify with some of these annoying things that could go wrong with your phone?
You were used to your old phone, you knew where things were and how they worked. The new phone is supposed to be faster and better but Oh! The Stress of trying to figure it out!
This has happened to every single one of us: the battery dies when we most need it: for a call, to get directions, to send an email… and there is no recharge point in sight!
You're in a new place; have no clue where you are and need to call up someone to get a clue! Your phone, however, decides not to oblige. In your phone, there are two SIMs, but neither can help!
You cannot call up the person so you try to get Google Maps to help you. Good luck with that! If there is no phone signal, there is no internet connection either and unless you had the foresight to download your map to use offline, you’re pretty lost!
You’ve just typed out what you think is a brilliant, sarcastic comeback to someone's Facebook post and you see the message, Facebook has stopped responding! You just cycled 20 km and when you want to check your stats on your fitness app, you find that it stopped at about 3.5 km!
Now your spellings are a little dodgy so you don’t dare to disable autocorrect. But then there are times when it simply won’t let you spell proper nouns, endearments, slang, pet names! Sometimes it is just hugely embarrassing: the message you inadvertently sent off, thanks to autocorrect!
They made phones so slim and sleek that they can disappear into books, under pillows, slip into the sofa, slide into a coat pocket…and seemingly disappear off the face of the earth. And you had it on silent so you can’t even call yourself up!
Interacting on social media, checking messages, getting carried away by YouTube… suddenly you find that you wasted an hour of study/work time! When your phone isn’t around, you miss it terribly because it is just that addictive!
Thanks to your phone, you no longer have actual conversations. You have only virtual ones. You keep wanting to ‘undo’ real life the way you can undo your virtual mistakes and now, even delete your own sent messages!
I know the phone is annoying and sometimes you may want to take this rather extreme step! Maybe that isn’t necessary. Maybe all you have to do is put away your phone for some time each day, switch off, disconnect and live in the real world, have real conversations enjoy some genuine human contact. You can always go back online, reconnect…or not!
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