Smartphone Pervasiveness
Or should that be invasiveness? Persuasiveness? It’s no longer a distraction, it’s an addiction, it’s everywhere, and its aggressive promotion and passive acceptance is driving me crazy.
I’m walking around on campus where students don’t look up while walking but down—desperately trying to catch every single glimpse of their backlit screen. Its usage in and around classrooms is detrimental to their learning.
I’m trying to order dinner at a restaurant but can’t find the menu unless I scan a QR code while I purposely left my phone at home to enable social interaction, not massive distraction.
I receive emails written in smartphone-mode where not only questions are barely understandable thanks to hip abbreviations but punctuation and correct addressing guidelines seemed to never have existed. Sent from iPhone. Please excuse typos and brevity.
I browse through paper ads—you know, the ones dumped in your real mailbox—and again have to pull out my phone because leaflets are too lazy to put in opening hours or details and instead simply print QR codes with redirect links that have a 99% chance of fingerprinting.
