Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Re: Quitting the smartphone
From:    Nightfox(21:1/137)
Date:    Fri Aug 21, 2026 07:45

  Re: Re: Quitting the smartphone
  By: Adept to Nightfox on Fri Aug 21 2026 08:13 am

 Ni>> You must be younger than me.  :) I didn't grow up with text, and I didn't
 Ni>> get my own cell phone until I was 21..  But since then, I've always found
 Ni>> texting to be very convenient.

 Ad> Eh, maybe a bit, but I meant "text", not "texting". Since most of my
 Ad> communication is through Teams/Signal/WhatsApp/Discord, and there's
 Ad> invariably a desktop app, I wind up using a keyboard much of the time
 Ad> anyway.

 Ad> Since I grew up with BBSs, I spent _way_ more time typing and reading
 Ad> things than I did having a non-digital phone call.

Ah, I was basically the same. But I used to spend considerable amounts of time on the phone too, compared to now.  Since cell phones and texting (especially smartphones), phone calls are more rare these days.

Nightfox
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