Do you realize how addicted you are to your electronics?

[fuzzybuddy]

At 8:45 PM, the cable TV went out, the phones went out -both land and cell, and the internet went out. They just came back after 13 hours. We, seniors, are great talking about the fabulous past. The hell with nostalgia, I need my electronics. I have this app where if I don't click in by 11 AM, they notify my relatives and call the cops to do a welfare check.

I used to laugh at all those people with their noses in a phone, and now, I'm one of them. Take my phone away is like taking the sun away. No phone, no TV, no internet- a fate worse than death.  Seriously, you don't realize how addicted you are to your electronics.

 

[oldaunt]

Electronics? I have a laptop, and a TV which is seldom on. Other than that, I have a landline and a sewing machine. Its the last 2 I would actually miss.

 

[Myrtle]

Oh, yes. This is so very true. I have invested in a small power bank that when kept charged can recharge my phone a couple of times. I haven’t needed it yet.

Is it the Snugg app that contacts you, fuzzybuddy? I have thought of getting it but hadn’t considered power outages.

 

[Disgustedman]

Electronics? I have a laptop, and a TV which is seldom on. Other than that, I have a landline and a sewing machine. Its the last 2 I would actually miss.

Yes, as one person said "How great it was I could access volumes of knowledge, videos of far away places, medical information for better living and still have someone half a world away hate you for what you say"......

 

[Gary O']

Seriously, you don't realize how addicted you are to your electronics.

Really?

 

[hollydolly]

Nope not me.. I'm definitely not addicted to my phone.. I have a an Iphone, the 3rd or 4th I've owned, and smart phones before that I wouldn't miss it if I didn't have it. I'm certainly not someone who walks along texting, or looking at some unimportant stuff on social network so I get myself run over crossing the road... I don't even look at my phone when I'm out with friends.. not unless I'm expecting an important call..

I have a Landline at home , I can use that if I had no smart phone..

My phone serves me well as a Camera.. but I also have a camera, so Meh...

 

[Kika]

I have become a tech addict. I have my iPhone, AirPods Pro, Apple Watch, Alexa, 2 lap tops, landline phone, 2 smart TVs.

I have morphed into my grandchildren. Well, Not quite…they text each other while sitting in the same room.

@fuzzybuddy Do you have a cell phone charger for the car?

 

[Nemo2]

Saw a brief online newspaper clip yesterday, (either NYC, or NJ, can't remember which)......guy crossing a slippery road, reaches the sidewalk, ends up on his keister, with his cell phone sliding away down the icy pavement.

"Do you HAVE to have the damn thing in your hand 24/7?"

 

[Jean-Paul]

Been in electronics since a child, an electronic engineer and inventor for 55 years.

Still "addicted to electronics" but in a different way!



Jon

 

[David777]

I do understand how lives of many in the nascent telecom era, revolve around such appliances. But it doesn't given balance need to be so. Though for some in their waning years given limitations, may be most of what is possible.

2017 image from my Silicon Valley workplace, the week I retired at age 68 where I tested and repaired telephony media gateway switches for my final 8 years, mostly looking through stereo microscopes at pcbs. So was up to my neck in electronics over 5 decades, mostly in test engineering support rolls. When the Internet rose, I worked 6 years in router engineering at its 800 pound gorilla. All that said, I've never been narrowly addicted to electronics but rather have lived a balanced life. Yes I've always used more electronic gadgets than most others because they are useful tools. I can understand what they do often at advanced levels as I can readily read and get at technical information that others don't.

In this telecom era out in public, most of the time I don't even carry my smartphone. Don't watch much tv and have not even had cable tv for over 2 decades. Am not a member of any post-smartphone social media sites. Instead, I have very much been into natural sciences often outdoors in our natural world. And that is where I enjoy my existence most, not in front of my devices. Also very much enjoy music and participatory sports, that at its essence is not electronic and direct interpersonal relationships with actual live people.

 

[HoneyNut]

At 8:45 PM, the cable TV went out, the phones went out -both land and cell, and the internet went out. They just came back after 13 hours.

Oh, that must have been just awful! Hope you had plenty of data on your phone. I am really addicted to listening to lectures as I go to sleep, and when I was staying in hotels the internet went out a number of times. The first time I tried putting a movie DVD on in my little DVD player (can use electricity or batteries), but the movie got really loud and woke me up during the chase scene at the end. So the next time internet was down I downloaded a lecture using my cell phone data, then I played that to go to sleep. Can't live without internet!

 

[1955]

Yeah I’m a retired EE too. Still design/program lots of stuff. Probably have 15+ computers between the house & workshop. This picture from today is actually pretty neat. I’ll continue on until I pass. Actually never had a smart phone until recently.

 

[Tish]

As long as I have good books to read and Crochet projects I am good.

 

[Gaer]

Yes, My TV and computer went out this past year for a few days and
I didn't miss them at all. I painted, sculpted, read books, studied, designed stuff.
actually WENT OUTSIDE! haha!
What did the world do before computers and TV's?

 

[JaniceM]

Yes, My TV and computer went out this past year for a few days and
I didn't miss them at all. I painted, sculpted, read books, studied, designed stuff.
actually WENT OUTSIDE! haha!
What did the world do before computers and TV's?

They listened to the radio?

 

[debodun]

I plan my whole day between TV and Internet.

 

[JaniceM]

At 8:45 PM, the cable TV went out, the phones went out -both land and cell, and the internet went out. They just came back after 13 hours. We, seniors, are great talking about the fabulous past. The hell with nostalgia, I need my electronics. I have this app where if I don't click in by 11 AM, they notify my relatives and call the cops to do a welfare check. I used to laugh at all those people with their noses in a phone, and now, I'm one of them. Take my phone away is like taking the sun away. No phone, no TV, no internet- a fate worse than death.  Seriously, you don't realize how addicted you are to your electronics.

Well, I certainly do now!!
I didn't think it was a big deal when I left my tv when I moved. Figured I'd just watch tv and movies online. Not fun, not interesting, not at all.

So I thought I'd read when I'm not working. Not doing so hot with that, either. Turns out I have no "light" reading- everything is too intense for current state of mind.

So I'm kind of going stir-crazy- and being cooped up from bad weather isn't helping, either.

 

[Disgustedman]

Well to be honest and fair, for some people it's been a blessing. Able to order without stepping out of the home, paychecks/pension/SS/SSI/SSDI directly deposited, bills paid with ease and not a stamp needed.

Plus, we can order things we didn't know existed that have helped make our lives better. So, yes for being addicted, but if we weren't such gossips, fb, Twitter and all social media wouldn't be very popular.

 

[hollydolly]

Well to be honest and fair, for some people it's been a blessing. Able to order without stepping out of the home, paychecks/pension/SS/SSI/SSDI directly deposited, bills paid with ease and not a stamp needed.

Plus, we can order things we didn't know existed that have helped make our lives better. So, yes for being addicted, but if we weren't such gossips, fb, Twitter and all social media wouldn't be very popular.

..absolutely, and for that we're all grateful in some measure. I have all the latest electronics, from Phones, to Macs desktops, laptop.. Ipads and kindles... remote contol lights and heating.. you name it I have it.. and they have been very useful , for well over 20 years.. but except for my Computer, not having any of those other things would make little difference to my life...but they may become very much more useful as I age, and are perhaps more useful to those who are housebound.. or living very remotely.. altho' tbf they're probably less use to those who need them who live remotely, than they need to be..

 

[Nemo2]

We have an electric kettle.

 

[horseless carriage]

Technology & me? TV, didn't have one for 30 years. Sat-navs turn the air blue, always end up arguing and swearing at it. Online this, that and the other, not a hope but I can dance. All the Latin & Ballroom disciplines and quite a few offbeat ones too. We even danced the Lambada at an inter-denomination afternoon fund raising tea dance.

Technology and me.........

 

[JustBonee]

At 8:45 PM, the cable TV went out, the phones went out -both land and cell, and the internet went out. They just came back after 13 hours. We, seniors, are great talking about the fabulous past. The hell with nostalgia, I need my electronics. I have this app where if I don't click in by 11 AM, they notify my relatives and call the cops to do a welfare check. I used to laugh at all those people with their noses in a phone, and now, I'm one of them. Take my phone away is like taking the sun away. No phone, no TV, no internet- a fate worse than death.  Seriously, you don't realize how addicted you are to your electronics.

It would be a JOLT without the internet and my iPhone. I need them both daily for different purposes, and can't imagine going w/o either of them for a day or more.

 

[Bretrick]

The only "electronics" I have is my small laptop.
No smart phone, no smart TV with cable.
A phone that makes and receives calls/texts.
No Satnav, I use a street directory to draw a map of my course to an unknown destination.

 

[Chet]

All I have is a flip phone for emergencies, a couple TVs, and 3 PCs almost 10 years old. They all get limited use.

 

[oldaunt]

Well, I certainly do now!!
I didn't think it was a big deal when I left my tv when I moved. Figured I'd just watch tv and movies online. Not fun, not interesting, not at all.

So I thought I'd read when I'm not working. Not doing so hot with that, either. Turns out I have no "light" reading- everything is too intense for current state of mind.

So I'm kind of going stir-crazy- and being cooped up from bad weather isn't helping, either.

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