I love my phone! My smart phone does so much more than just allow me
to take and make phone calls. In fact, I do that rarely with my smart
phone. I use it mostly to read things on, browse the Internet, manage
my calendar and tasks, and send either short or long messages to
people. I also program but that's a whole different thing.
Because most of the people around me have mobile smart phones I see
other people using their phones a lot more than I actually use mine,
and I use mine a lot! Guys at work spend their breaks looking at
their phones instead of talking to each other. When I go shopping I
have to dodge people that are so engrossed in whatever they're looking
out on their phone that they just run right into me if I don't get out
of the way. I find that rather rude, but it happens pretty often.
What I find funny is when somebody is talking on the phone and how
they try to get away from people so that they have a semblance of
privacy. They turn away from anybody near them, they start walking
towards the corner or a door so that they can duck around the corner.
It's like whatever they're talking about is private in their mind and
they will keep it that way.
It reminds me of when I was trying to play video games and I tried a
first-person shooter game several years ago. I don't even remember
the name of but the graphics were cool and it boasted of fancy new
artificial intelligence built into the characters that were not live
players. I don't like the live online games so everybody else in the
game except me is an artificial intelligence usually.
But the computer people thrown into the game to add something random
to talk to or interact with acted a lot like people do that are
talking on their phones in public. They would go wander off into
corners. If I would run up to them in the game and try to interact
with them they would say random stupid statements or "leave me alone"
and stand in the corner.
It's just funny to think back on the way the artificial people in that
game acted and how real people that are on their phones today act
being so similar.
Very weird similarities.
