In London’s Neal’s Yard yesterday at lunchtime it became quite busy, and the world and his wife were in thrall to their phones…. the modern urban landscape.
I took a number of images of individuals using their phones, but here we have two or more people in shot glued to a phone or two – whatever did people do before we had the darned things???
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Last month my much loved Nokia (12 years old) gave up the ghost. Yesterday I reluctantly signed up for a Smart Phone. I hope I don’t become one of these sad people!
My much loved Nokia is very simple and basic! The last one gave up the ghost, but I replaced it with another basic….Nothing fancy for me
Problem is, everything these days needs a smart phone. I bought a fitbit but it needs a smart phone, I bought a new car but it needs a smart phone, I bought a new printer and that needs a smart phone!
Well, my car doesn’t, my printer doesn’t!!
A fat scale needs a smart phone, a bank account too and travelling becomes difficult without one!
Bank account can use an iPad, travelling I agree is less easy – I need to travel with a companion who is in possession of a smartphone!
Exactly!
Nah
Someone walked full-tilt into me on Dereham High Street this afternoon. Of course, she was looking at her phone, and didn’t even have the grace to look up from it and apologise.
Definitely a modern ‘curse’!
Best wishes, Pete.
No apology??😳
Not a word. Just carried on walking, looking at her phone. Not young either, around 40. That is unusual in Dereham, where people are generally polite. (By Camden standards anyway)
Disgraceful….
This has to change – it is a pain and a distraction hanging onto them. I imagine us all walking round with Bell Star helmets with heads up displays 🙂
Yikes….
Whatever did we do before we had them? Answer- Interacted.
Well, I still do, as I don’t have a smartphone!!
I don’t have a proper smart phone but I suspect I am going to have to get one soon. I don’t have a smart TV either! And I almost never take my phone out with me unless I need it to communicate with someone about meeting them. I suppose you have to consider that people use these phones for multiple purposes such as a camera, to play music, text, look up stuff and even phone people! The only time I use one when out of the house is in a café to check my WP blogs!
Well, I’m like you, but I see what you’re saying….
Whatever is the future going to be like. Smartphones have their place, I suppose, but are no replacement for being, really being with each one. Sad.
TRULY sad, Victoria
This makes me so sad. I take my phone with me all the time just in case of photos, but I try really hard not to be on it all the time (and certainly now when I’m driving or walking.) It makes me sad to see moms walking their children in strollers and paying attention only to their phones or people sitting “together” at a coffee shop or elsewhere, all the time on their phones.
janet
“people sitting “together” at a coffee shop or elsewhere, all the time on their phones” just loses me, Janet…why? I took these images to illustrate the total prevalence of phones, to me it makes scary looking…and the other day, a mum with toddler and phone jaywalked across the road…..aargh what ARE they thinking??
Here we commonly see families eating out with each member on a separate phone. I think they miss the idea of eating together as strengthening family ties.
They clearly do!!
It a sad indeed. I recently read a report about young mothers in the maternity wards spending more time with their phones than with their newborn babies.
Nooooo! Babies need to bond with their mothers!
Someone said the mobile phone is the new Newspaper?
😳