Yeah. I'm not much of a cell phone guy. Oh, I have one but never turn it on unless I need to make a specific call or make adjustments to it. My 38 year old daughter has to call her mom and tell her to tell me to turn my phone on so she can talk to me about something. I've often wondered why the wife doesn't just give me her phone to talk to her..but, what the hay.

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:

At work, if I type up a long, technical email I get feedback that my leadership won’t read it because it’s too long. Well technical data doesn’t fit into whatever Twatter character limit is set at. It’s technical information.

I'm just trying to give helpful feedback because I've been in your position writing analysis reports that go to executive management.

You need to write an Executive Summary at the top of your report for the executives. They're not going to follow all the details anyway. Give a high level summary status, any issues/risks, and any decisions that have to be made.

Then you can provide the Detailed Report section following that. That has worked well for me.

Oh hell yes!

I can’t count how many times Im on some detail downtown and someone asks me a question they can answer themselves.

“What time is the next bus?”
“Im a cop, not a bus driver. The bus driver is the guy in the bus driver uniform standing 10 feet away.”

“Where’s this at?”
“How do I get to this place?”

Yeah, I worked downtown for a few years, and know where a lot of stuff is, and I do try to get people where they want to go, versus the old “Two blocks down and make a left” answer.

But in their pocket lies a piece of technology that literally has everything they would ever want to know at their fingertips. As the saying goes, “There’s an App for that.”


“Where should I eat?”
“Smith & Wolinski’s! Great steakhouse!”
“But I’m a vegan” and the accompanying disgusted look…
“Take out your phone and look up ‘vegan restaurant near me’!”
And somehow, I’m the asshole…

Now on the flip side of that coin:

I have zero problem in having an actual conversation with someone. As in looking at them, and talking. In my single days, I had no problem conversing with women. I did very well, actually.
I don’t know how my kids are going to do it.
Yes, I think and hope I did well in teaching my sons how to talk with someone. (Yeah, my youngest is somewhat more of a smartass, and yes, he got it from me.) They are on their phones sending messages with nothing more than emojis. Saying “lol” (ell-OH-ell) in their actual speech is a sign too.
Modern day caveman drawing electronic stick figures and hieroglyphics.
We, as a society have regressed that much?

Some of my younger cops have a large problem talking to bad guys. Simple interrogations are lost on them. They have a hard time understanding nuances of communication. That bad guy is picking up the non-verbal cues of slumped shoulders, not maintaining eye contact, looking down constantly.
People in the younger generation who have social anxiety can now easily navigate through life without really having to “socialize”. Thereby not really being able to get over their anxieties by being forced to interact with others.

Re: Smart Phones.
I've been on a month long vacation overseas. I noticed people had their attention riveted to their phones, oblivious. And it's not like they were all working, checking emails, etc.

It reminded me of an episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Game. The Enterprise crew becomes addicted to a virtual reality game played on a headset. The device turned out to be a mind-control devise used by aliens to take over the ship and the Federation.

That's what these people reminded me of - being mind-controlled.

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Originally posted by egregore:

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"Smart" Phones Are Making Us All Stupider

"Us" and "all" - meaning everybody - is a bullshit blanket statement. I consider one to be a great convenience and an important piece of emergency equipment. Yeah, yeah, people misuse them, blah blah fucking blah. Speak for yourself.

Damn, who pissed in your Cheerios?

I never understood people being glued to their smartphones. This made sense.

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Damn, who pissed in your Cheerios?

I prefer Frosted Bitch Flakes.

Creates narcissists too 9and deepens the narcissism in those who already are narcissists.

See something nice and someone needs to post it with a, "[look at me] this is where we were today" type post… and then see who looked at their post(s)

If you'd like some free side info from the writer of that book, I believe he appeared on the Star Talk podcast talking about it. Fascinating listen. Season 16 ep 60, The Anxious Generation.