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If smart phones disapeared how would you cope?

TheCatWoman

I would cope fine as I don't have one, they're smarter than me for a start, but I know most people do have them and use them all the time.

How would you do your banking and benefits, could you cope with having to talk to an actual person?

What about if the internet got blasted back 15 years and there was no AI, an internet that was smaller but in many ways friendlier and easier to use. If there were only texts and phone calls and no real social media? No streaming either, you either watched something live or recorded it!

I think I'd be happier and find things easier as I've never really got to grips with technology, I found things hard enough 15 years ago, now many things seem impossible.

Parents

  • I'd be fine. I do have one, and we also have a 2g "dumb" mobile phone, but often go out without either. I don't do online banking on the smartphone and don't have payment cards saved on it. 

    I would be fine with mobiles just doing calls and texts, and no social media would be great. I do like being able to stream TV programmes when I want to watch them though, rather than having to set a recording device. I also like Kindle books, so I'd want to keep those.

  • in reply to Lotus

    Does 2G still work? I had to get a 4G dumb phone earlier in the year as 3G was being switched off.

    I like my kindle too, but I used to manage with the library just fine and still would if its funding hadn't been cut to the bone and all sorts of hoops put in place to stop you from using it on anything but an occaisional basis.

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    What did you do before smart phones? I'm guessing that you're old enough to remember what life was like before them? Do you back up all your lists in case in lose your phone?

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  • in reply to Lotus

    Does 2G still work? I had to get a 4G dumb phone earlier in the year as 3G was being switched off.

    I like my kindle too, but I used to manage with the library just fine and still would if its funding hadn't been cut to the bone and all sorts of hoops put in place to stop you from using it on anything but an occaisional basis.

    **************************

    What did you do before smart phones? I'm guessing that you're old enough to remember what life was like before them? Do you back up all your lists in case in lose your phone?

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