Ten Smartphone Habits to Avoid

This list comes from columnists at CNN.  Some are realistic and some are not, says me. 

Avoid:

1.  Drunk-tweeting or texting or calling.  Well that’s a good one but we’re all sober right now and who can reason with a drunk?

2. Fool around on your phone whenever you have a spare moment. In other words, get a life. The phone has become a creativity killer.  Sometimes you just need to stare out the window so you can think.

3.  Passive-aggressively whining for all the world to see.  I’ll admit to venting frustration via my smartphone but some people take it to a whole new level. I have one Facebook friend whose reason for living appears to be complaining about how others drive.  It’s repetitive and boring.  He needs to start working from home.

4.  Being scared to actually use the phone.  I’ve never really liked phone calls. But I think this one might pertain to me a bit.  I’d rather send a carefully worded email or text than call another human, especially one I don’t know.  There – I said it. I’m number 4.

5. Missing an event because you’re too busy taking phone-quality pictures or tweeting or texting about it.  I’ve had people ask me if I’m going to tweet or photograph something when I must appear to be just simply enjoying it.  It’s a foreign concept to an entire generation.  They miss having fun at the event while they’re telling everyone how much fun the event is.  Silly.

6.  Texting salacious pictures.  This one makes me think of celebrities who “accidentally” tweet naked photos of themselves.  Do you know how many steps you have to take to tweet a photo?  It can’t be done by accident but stories about it are apparently written by gullible Luddites because it keeps “happening”.

7.  Turning your friends into enemies by posting videos of them.  That’s one for the kids.

8.  Letting your anger seethe out at the world at large.  We have ALL done that.  Guilty.

9.  Texting while walking.  Guilty again.  Dumb.

10.  Using your phone in the bathroom.  Really?  I thought Words With Friends was supposed to replace the magazine rack in the john?  Kidding! I’m kidding.

2 thoughts on “Ten Smartphone Habits to Avoid”

  1. An amendment to item 9, it should include talking while walking, the majority can’t do either well and at the same time, impossible. While out with my dog in downtown T.O. I’ve had a number of texters/talkers run into us as a result of being distracted and they usually end up as side-walk kill, I.E. flat on their ass wondering what happened. And no, its not what you think. Our combined weight and momentum knocks them off their feet, including once while crossing Bay St. at Bloor, person went one way and the phone the other, my dog and I were fine.

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