Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Re: Quitting the smartphone
From:    Arelor(21:2/138)
Date:    Sun Sep 13, 2026 11:00

  Re: Re: Quitting the smartphone
  By: Mortar M. to Arelor on Wed Aug 26 2026 11:45 am

 >   Re: Re: Quitting the smartphone
 >   By: Arelor to Mortar M. on Tue Aug 25 2026 11:35:31
 >
 >  > Most people are like that whether they want to admit it or not.
 >
 > Really?  From what body of evidence supports your claim?

I phone and text so many different people during the week, you would believe I am a commercial agent.

 >
 >  > text only when my message does not require immediate action - and, very
 >  > often, it gets ignored.
 >
 > Maybe because you're the "grumpy weird guy"?  :)

No, it is because people has so much stuff going on with their phones that interaction has lost any value and people does not pay attention anymore.

If you only get 1 or 2 messages per week, you are more likely to pay attention to each. If you get 400 notifications per day, most of which are social media cruft, you are likely going to do what my boss does, which is not bothering to pick the phone to check the notifications at all. It is an interesting phenomenom to watch: he might be doing some light paperwork while the phone is ringing a notification tone once per minute and he is outright ingnoring the thing.

BTW I have a friend who used to say he packed more streetwisdom than me because he meets people instead of sheltering in a command post and locking everybody out. It turns out I deal with more unique humans on a weekly basis than this guy and (surprise) I am very well liked by most of them. I want everybody to eat shit and die but only a select circle of people knows this, everybody else thinks I am the charming guy who fixes tech.
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