{"id":442,"date":"2007-09-08T17:45:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T17:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexsuze.com\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2007-09-08T17:46:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T17:46:36","slug":"mobile-dependency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Dependency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"images\/transformerphone.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" \/>I have just returned from shopping and realised just how conspicuous mobile phone usage has become.\u00a0 It seems like everyone finds it necessary to walk around with a mobile phone stuck to the side of their face.<\/p>\n<p>How have we got to the stage where we can&#8217;t live our daily lives without having to call each other or send text messages to each other. Yesterday (and not for the first time) I watched in disbelief as a your girl crossed over while texting.\u00a0 And the worst case of addiction I have seen, someone actually texting whilst driving their car.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not so long ago thatI but remember having to use public phone boxes when out and about, but not regularly it wasn&#8217;t necessary.\u00a0 You may call your parents to let them know you are going to be late or use one in an emergency but it certainly wasn&#8217;t necessary to make tens of calls per day.<\/p>\n<p>And the laziest thing I have witnessed so far was today.\u00a0 A woman came to sit next to us on a bench in the shopping mall whilst we were nibbling a sandwich.\u00a0 Her husband stood waiting for assistance at a mobile phone kiosk just four meters away.\u00a0 I&#8217;m eating my food and she takes out her mobile, dials and then her husband, who is only a couple of paces away picks his up.<\/p>\n<p>She then started to have a conversation with him which lasted about 5 minutes.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t believe my eyes.\u00a0 Have we become so dependent on mobiles that we can&#8217;t use our legs any more.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and one last thing before I finish my winge.\u00a0 Lol\u00a0 I was in the supermarket the other day buying some bleach and the a guy stood next to me started to speak to someone, I assume his wife, about which cleaner to purchase, he was actually reading out the labels on the back of toilet cleaners!<\/p>\n<p>There could be a future in rehab \u2026The Suzanne Mobile Dependency Clinic.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/cell%20phone\">cell phone<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mobile%20phone\">mobile phone<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/transformers\">transformers<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/transformer%20phone\">transformer phone<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/cell%20phone%20dependency\">cell phone dependency<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mobile%20phone%20dependency\">mobile phone dependency<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/text%20messge\">text messge<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/texting\">texting<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/SMS%20messaging\">SMS messaging<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just returned from shopping and realised just how conspicuous mobile phone usage has become.\u00a0 It seems like everyone finds it necessary to walk around with a mobile phone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=442\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}