Tickly things, I think.

One · June 20, 2019, 8:26am

Perhaps I have a very odd S.O.H. (of course), but I must say that these really tickled my fancy:

"We need to calm our technology down"

I could’ve never imagined that growing up I’d have this little screen that works like a computer and solves a bunch of life issues on the fly. It’s my bank, my TV, my newspaper, my notebook, alarm-clock, camera, and I’m just running through the basics. I can order transportation from pretty much anywhere, I can order any kind of food, check for my city’s event agenda...

These were not primary needs, but they’ve become embedded in our lives and I’m definitely not a hater of this new lifestyle. It’s comfortable.

But I have to say, I kind of understand the smartphone haters. I understand where they come from, even though I work as a product designer. Also because I do too find myself hating my own smartphone sometimes, and it’s not when it gets slow or doesn’t do what I want. I feel like phones tend to be very needy.

It’s just that my phone has increasingly become like a little mob of people constantly calling and tapping me on the shoulder for attention. They’re too many, too loud, and they all think whatever they have to say or ask is really important and urgent. But what then happens most of the times is that none of the interventions were either important or urgent enough for the stress they caused me.

There's more to that article, but that portion was enough to get me giggling when I saw the 'little mob of people' reference (and my sincerest admiration to that very wise writer) !!

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This next bit may be wishful thinking (and writing...), but I say - good for the writer anyhow:

"Facebook moving towards its own Graveyard"

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Of course all the doggone fools who buy into fecesbooks new cybercurrency will NOT see it that way, but as a total non-fecesbook user, I don't really care anyhow !!