Why You Should Lose The Smart Phone

[runnah]

My **** also does not stink.

 

[otherprof]

Eh text messages don't have enough room to get flowery with language - and ify ou're spending that long typing out huge messages get a keyboard

Point taken, though one does not need flowery language to convey intense emotion or meaning.

Ernest Hemmingway wrote, in response to a challenge to write the shortest story, "Baby shoes for sale. Never worn."
He could break my heart in six words, on a smart phone or carved in a watermelon.

 

[astroNikon]

Ernest Hemmingway wrote, in response to a challenge to write the shortest story, "Baby shoes for sale. Never worn."
He could break my heart in six words, on a smart phone or carved in a watermelon.

All depends upon your interpretation.
I read it as someone bought some shoes and they were never used. Thus are selling. Could be for a variety of reasons - provided as a gift and too small or different (for boy vs girl), etc. So many reasons.
Or it could be interpreted that the baby didn't survive which may be how you interpreted it.

 

[limr]

Ernest Hemmingway wrote, in response to a challenge to write the shortest story, "Baby shoes for sale. Never worn."
He could break my heart in six words, on a smart phone or carved in a watermelon.

All depends upon your interpretation.
I read it as someone bought some shoes and they were never used. Thus are selling. Could be for a variety of reasons - provided as a gift and too small or different (for boy vs girl), etc. So many reasons.
Or it could be interpreted that the baby didn't survive which may be how you interpreted it.

Or that the couple couldn't conceive at all or the adoption went through...

Either way, it just drives the point home that a lot of flowery language is not needed to convey emotion, and that there can even be enough meaning in those few words that different interpretations are possible.

 

[robbins.photo]

Either way, it just drives the point home that a lot of flowery language is not needed to convey emotion, and that there can even be enough meaning in those few words that different interpretations are possible.

Well I for one have noted a significant increase in the quality of my life once I started blindly following the advice of some random CEO mentioned in a click-bait article.

Ok, no, not really. I can't really back that up. Lol

 

[480sparky]

who needs a smartphone !!
I keep my laptop straped to my wrist.

So you're Techo-Bill?


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[gckless]

So does this guy never send email? Terrible example in that "article" of his reasoning. I do agree that text does not convey emotion, and I do still prefer to talk on the phone at times, especially when dealing with someone new or anything important. And yes, I agree that people don't know how to put down their phones and pay attention to what's at hand (his example). But to say that we shouldn't have smartphones because of that? No.

I also had no idea MSN had any merit at all anymore. Oh wait...

 

[astroNikon]

text does not convey emotion

 

[gckless]

text does not convey emotion

I meant text itself, not the act of texting, but ya know

 

[astroNikon]

text does not convey emotion

I meant text itself, not the act of texting, but ya know

: ) . . . I KNOW WHAT YOU MEANT !!!!

 

[robbins.photo]

I dunno, seems like a lot of folks are missing the point of the article.

Smartphones are like foosball. They are of the debil.

 

[astroNikon]

I dunno, seems like a lot of folks are missing the point of the article.

Smartphones are like foosball. They are of the debil.

he probably drives a Cadillac with all the electronic gizmos too.

ironically, he lives a few miles from me (or did) maybe I can check up on him and see what phone he actually uses when away from work. Get that 800mm lens out. Does that make me a paparrazi or stalker ?

 

[gckless]

I dunno, seems like a lot of folks are missing the point of the article.

Smartphones are like foosball. They are of the debil.

he probably drives a Cadillac with all the electronic gizmos too.

ironically, he lives a few miles from me (or did) maybe I can check up on him and see what phone he actually uses when away from work. Get that 800mm lens out. Does that make me a paparrazi or stalker ?

I think that depends on what you do with the photo afterwards. One group usually kills the people in the photos, the other group are more often killed taking the photos.

 

[tecboy]

I have about three bosses, so I heavily rely on my iPhone to communicate through text messages and email. Without iPhone, I'm stuck.

 

[table1349]

Personally I like the irony of the whole thing. The guy went undercover in his own company only to find out how out of touch with the reality of his company he really was.