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You can turn all that nagging off, so the only notifications you'll get, will be calls and texts. I really think some people blame the smartphone for being a distracting element, and it's not wrong that it can be distracting, but it's because the user allow it to. You can turn off all notifications, so you decide when to see if there is something of interest. For instance, my phone does not tell me when a mail arrive…
"You can turn all that nagging off, so the only notifications you'll get, will be calls and texts." Very true. I think what I've feeling, and trying to describe, is a rejection of expanding my consciousness into the Internet. A large portion of my social groups use those social networks as extensions of themselves, for communication and interaction. With immediate access to those channels it's difficult to ignore the…
Re: The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones
#401I know it all too well. At some point I felt so annoyed by the smartphones intrusion in my life, that I began to ignore the notifications. It was great for a while, but I still felt a slight nagging. So I did the logical thing, and turned it off entirely. Haven't missed anything of significance, and I'm still in touch with the people that I want to be in touch with over the social networks.