I too see people of all ages with IPhone umbilical cords. When I am flying or preparing to fly, I am certainly in this category.

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more like pacifiers

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How about going back to the good old days where you had to go meet someone you wanted to do business with? A few decades ago, we didn't have to do it. We could make a phone call, send a telex, etc, etc. I'm sure some old geezer was grumbling about the losing of F2F and having something as impersonal as a phone call instead of a hand written letter or actually going to meet the person, shake his hand, give him a big sloppy kiss, etc, etc. I'll bet that at that time, someone was crying about losing the F2F communication, never dreaming what it could evolve to in this world today. Give it 3 or 4 more decades and the young ones today will be grumbling the same thing.

Doesn't mean you shouldn't either. Either way, the choice is yours to hang around with the dinosaurs whose number gets fewer and fewer or move along. Sure, you didn't have to sign on to buy a car either and could still use your horse and buggy but certain difficulties will emerge and if you are able and willing, I suppose you can make do. I mean, the horse and buggy was good enough for my great grand parents so why not me?

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Just get yourself a mobile phone blocker. The texts wont send.
You end up with a 30' no signal zone around you.

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It would raise some interesting questions of whether you advocate that for only cell phones or whether you advocate that for everything else, won't it? Would you support me blocking up the public sidewalk because I find kids irritating and don't want them on the sidewalk for instance?

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I don't see the harm others may be doing to anyone, by their use of communication devices anywhere - especially in public.

Call me skeptical, and not a criticism, but I'd be more concerned with the harm done to others in one's immediate family and hometime, (or in many cases business place) in one's spending untold hours daily, engrossed in online leisure communication, rather than spending that time with their loved ones. I would surmise there must be a lot of active estrangment going on with family, because some are tuned-in to their PCs/iPhones on the Internet, instead of interfacing with those in their family - in the same room.

In a public situation? I would have to wonder why it's any business of a total stranger's concern, in all frankness.....

Hold on, I need to post this......

Why? It's none of your business. Don't you have more pressing personal business? I know I do. Whether I value my family enough to spend more time with them or not isn't your affair. Besides, you can't shut down any and all distractions so that the only thing I have to spend time on is my wife and kids, etc, etc. That is going to have to be my personal choice. You cannot make it for me. As such, I wouldn't concern myself over that sort of thing. Maybe the distracting is making my kids screaming more bearable? Or for some, the porn is giving them something to get excited about since their wives don't excite them? Who cares either way.

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Don't bother me honey/kids - I don't have time for you - I'm doing research right now on the Net........0_o

I recently googled the top ten addictions and electronic devices are high on the list.

Puts a new slant on driving and texting.

My job provides me with any cell phone I want. I'm now on a Droid Razr Maxx.
It really does everything, and I really like it a lot.
But, they know I do not take calls while I am driving and that I will only answer if it is an acceptable time to do so.
I'll happily pull over at the next opportunity to see who called and call them right back, when the car is not moving.
If I am with anyone socially, I will only look at the phone if there is need to look something up on the internet in relation to a conversation.
I check the phone in private, if I have the need.
It does come in really handy for checking email without having to be at a computer, like when I come down to the kitchen in the AM to make coffee, and it's right there charging. One finger touch per account and email is there.

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I believe it's all stimuli or stimulation. Real life can be/become boring in any given situation, so the electronic device offers escapism. The person is basically elsewhere, other than actually 'present.' Whether this is good or bad is up to the individuals involved.


I have a good friend that has related to me that the only thing she remembers about her Father, is that he would park himself on the sofa after coming home from work, totally engrossed in the television, communicating with none of the family. This was in the late 1950s-1960s. That's a sick memory to have of your Parent, IMO. However, some may believe that being disconnected from the family or society is a good thing for the individual. YVMV.

I am guilty of using my phone a lot and I do realize that I could just a dumb phone and be ok,but I looked at some regular phones and they just suck. No way I could go back. Not when one device can replace so many. Also, I have not gotten estranged from my family. I see my family every week with the exception of my older sister as she moved to NYC.

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