It's excellent, and it does kinda make the world look really rather pathetic!
I realise how out of place I am most of the time, because I made a deliberate choice not to be connected to the internet on my phone, and only to use it for calls and texts. I can only access that other world through my PC, which means I have to be at my desk. I hope that doesn't sound smug, it's not for any other reason other than that I don't want the distraction - or perhaps actually more the fact that I'm not able to cope with that amount of distraction! I just can't do it. I need to look out of the train window, I need to concentrate on one thing at a time, I need space in my head if I can get it, and I often can't! I'm just old-fashioned, to be honest. Perhaps I'll come back into fashion one day though!
Mixed feelings here. I acknowledge the negatives, but if it wasn't the phone it would be something else. My grandparents didn't talk to eachother any more than we do. They had other distractions (cricket, newspaper for him, books, dressmaking and baking for her). Plus the phone means I don't feel so alone.
It would be something else - a book maybe. But would it be so ubiquitous? And so absorbing? But yes, I agree - people tend to distraction. And there's no putting this genie back in the bottle, of course. Still, an interesting photographic project that probably wouldn't have got BBC coverage without the phone angle...
It's excellent, and it does kinda make the world look really rather pathetic!
ReplyDeleteI realise how out of place I am most of the time, because I made a deliberate choice not to be connected to the internet on my phone, and only to use it for calls and texts. I can only access that other world through my PC, which means I have to be at my desk. I hope that doesn't sound smug, it's not for any other reason other than that I don't want the distraction - or perhaps actually more the fact that I'm not able to cope with that amount of distraction! I just can't do it. I need to look out of the train window, I need to concentrate on one thing at a time, I need space in my head if I can get it, and I often can't! I'm just old-fashioned, to be honest. Perhaps I'll come back into fashion one day though!
Good for you, C.
DeleteI read your comment...on my phone.
I'm responding...on my phone.
It's got me. God help me.
Mixed feelings here. I acknowledge the negatives, but if it wasn't the phone it would be something else. My grandparents didn't talk to eachother any more than we do. They had other distractions (cricket, newspaper for him, books, dressmaking and baking for her). Plus the phone means I don't feel so alone.
ReplyDeleteIt would be something else - a book maybe. But would it be so ubiquitous? And so absorbing? But yes, I agree - people tend to distraction. And there's no putting this genie back in the bottle, of course. Still, an interesting photographic project that probably wouldn't have got BBC coverage without the phone angle...
Delete