Lookin' at my phone

[davidc4430]

Pete Denahy - Looking At My Phone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGVa1mS4IbU

[esseco46]

Yes, that would apply to about 90% of people today.

[springyzone]

haha, so true.

I had a surreal experience (well, to me anyway) a few years ago. I went into the city-Melbourne- by train. Been many years since I did that and back in the old days, the peak hour people would all be reading their newspapers. I looked around me that day though and noticed that just about every single person there now had their head in either a phone or an ipad.

I felt like I was a time traveller, the only one with a book.

And when my kids & their partners visit, it is only a matter of time till some of them whip out their smart phones. I feel like asking-am I boring you?

Even friends who have such phones-though they won't go web surfing when we are together-are almost paranoid about getting to their phone if they hear the ding of a message coming through and quickly answer it. 

How did they ever survive back in the days when going out meant being out of touch for a few hours?

[zanadoo_56]

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@springyzonewrote:

haha, so true.

I had a surreal experience (well, to me anyway) a few years ago. I went into the city-Melbourne- by train. Been many years since I did that and back in the old days, the peak hour people would all be reading their newspapers. I looked around me that day though and noticed that just about every single person there now had their head in either a phone or an ipad.

I felt like I was a time traveller, the only one with a book.

And when my kids & their partners visit, it is only a matter of time till some of them whip out their smart phones. I feel like asking-am I boring you?

Even friends who have such phones-though they won't go web surfing when we are together-are almost paranoid about getting to their phone if they hear the ding of a message coming through and quickly answer it. 

How did they ever survive back in the days when going out meant being out of touch for a few hours?

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In the olden days (!!) train travellers would read their newspapers then leave them on the seat for the next commuter to read.  Very handy that was sometimes.

I am continually amazed at the desperation people have to get to their phones when they ring.  It's only in the past year that I have gone from the old Telstra wall phone to a cordless one (family bought it for me due to health concerns....it wasn't my idea).  If I'm really busy doing something and it rings I may choose to ignore it.  I haven't seen that happen with those members of the family with smart phones.  It must be the phones that are smart - it certainly isn't the owners.  I've also seen several near car accidents as a result of mobile phones in cars.

[davidc4430]

When they make a phone that will tell indian call centre fools to &#%@* off without me doing anything, then i'll call em SMART phones.

until then they are just phones with anoying features i dont need

[zanadoo_56]

I switched phone providers when the NBN came in.  Since then I've been hassled by foreign sounding Telstra call people trying to sell me 'great deals'.  Ha.  That's what I wanted when I had to go on the NBN...but their lowest package was more than I'd need and too expensive. 

I'd been a Telstra customer since I first got a phone.  After I gave them the boot they phoned and I explained why I was no longer a customer and I was told there was a better deal I could have had.  Yeah right, since it was never offered to me at the time. 

Now they can stick it....but they keep phoning drat it.

[imastawka]

Register your phone number on the Do Not Call Register

https://www.donotcall.gov.au/consumers/register-your-numbers/

[lyhargr_0]

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@imastawkawrote:

Register your phone number on the Do Not Call Register

https://www.donotcall.gov.au/consumers/register-your-numbers/

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Won't make much diffence as it doesn't/can't cover calls coming from outside Au

[imastawka]

Maybe not, but if they are representing Telstra, then Telstra cops a fine when you dob them in.

They're supposed to check the register before phoning

[lyhargr_0]

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@imastawkawrote:

Maybe not, but if they are representing Telstra, then Telstra cops a fine when you dob them in.

They're supposed to check the register before phoning

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 These calls are being made from call centres outside Au, they may claim to be from Telstra but they aren't, so in reality they have nothing to do with Telstra