Hi-Tech or Low Tech

[Lightspeed]

I'm somewhat with Mary on this one. We have smartphones in this household, but we use them to make our lives easier.

Specifically, what we do not use them for is to make commercial company's lives easier, and nor do we spend our every waking hour glued to them.

You're right Mary, there's a whole segment of the population ( the larger part it seems to me) whos lives are totally dependent on smartphones now. My SIL for example cannot go more than 5 minutes without checking in n some app or other to stay connected to his ever so important virtual lifestyle. When this happens throughout meals with family, I just find it damned rude. After all, as MB wrote, they do have an OFF button and an ability to pick up communications asynchronously.

Recently, I've been much amused by claiming not to have mobile telephone nor understanding what an e-mail address is whenever demanded these by impudent store staff. Met with this unworldly response,it usually takes the dullards a minute or two in a complete "does not compute" state before they grasp the shocking fact that maybe not everyone on the planet was born with a smartphone grafted to the end of their arm.