I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones.

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What if i liked my ipod?

Psst. There's music in your phone. That's a plus. Load up songs, play songs, be happy.

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These days, they are ultra expensive glass rectangles that exist to serve you endless ads and harvest every piece of info about every facet of your life.

It sounds like you need to delete some apps.

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Printing out the MapQuest directions. Keeping the Thomas Guide in your car.

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You mean portable GPS devices that have been around for a decade before smart phones?

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I was content and managed just fine with paper maps and directions before smartphones. When I got my first one it rendered those devices obsolete for me.

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I don't think it sucks for you to not be reliant on it, but it also seems like you don't know how to use it for your advantage.

Never install social media on it and go figure out what it can do for you.

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Fair enough. My life would be quite a bit worse without it personally. Nobody is forcing you to have one though, if it's genuinely not doing it for you you can always get a dumb phone.

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Hey, to each their own.

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Please, let me know what else I can do to get more value from my smart phone. I'm open to it.

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Twitter isn't toxic. Twitter doesn't exist. Twitter was very left leaning.

X is toxic.

I've not heard IG is toxic. I've only heard it's the place to see braindead bimbos in bikinis.

FB is more 1984 than toxic. It steals all your personal info. Even if you've never signed up at all.

Got a mom who uses FB? Well she put your phone number in.

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Having access to the sum of all human knowledge in your pocket hasn't helped you in any way at all?

Either you're too high to think straight, or you're lying.

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For me, it was notes, calculations, and having access to the necessary information for making the two.

I might be sitting in the train, looking out the window, zoning out, and suddenly I start thinking about the melting point of tungsten. I begin to wonder how much power an arc furnace would draw while melting tungsten, and could you keep one running with just solar power. How many panels would you need at this location? I have so many questions, and most of them involve calculations.

You can imagine how glad I am that I don’t need to carry a calculator and a bunch of books with me.

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Suddenly, printing stuff has declined in popularity when you could just have all the data with you in your phone. Don’t even have to be stored locally when you can access the cloud instead.

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I thought there was a whole movement going on among the "youngs," where they were specifically getting old flip phones that couldn't run any apps. I heard about that trend more than a year ago, so it's probably long passed.

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Do you never leave your house?

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Do portable GPS also have a list of every single business near my location?

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No. Being overly hostile against smartphones because you don't do much in your life is having a low-effort life. You're basically saying soap is useless because you don't shower.

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Was i being hostile?

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What does having it in my pocket vs at home on a desk change? Im never really in such a hurry to find something out that I can't just look it up later. I actually prefer researching at my desk.

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Gps without having to buy an expensive in-car GPS unit.
Gps that automatically updates maps.
GPS that updates routes based on traffic\

Route planning including public transit
Especially when you're not sure what your departure time will be
That accounts for temporary route changes
That automatically updates permanent route changes