Comments on: iPhone checking is a sickness

By: John McLachlan

John McLachlan — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:14:21 +0000

It’s always about YOU, Julien. Sheesh.

:-)

By: Izwan

Izwan — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:40:02 +0000

“…Don’t look at your WATCH or the mirror behind me and start fixing your hair too.”

By: Clinton

Clinton — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:20:21 +0000

I know plenty of people who always bring their phones into meetings and plop them on the table. Then glance at them from time to time. Why? Even if it’s work related, it can wait 30 minutes. Really. Life will go on if you don’t read your email or get that facebook update or IM or call or Tweet immediately. I promise you — IT CAN WAIT A FEW MINUTES. But, Julien, I think you missed it by simply calling out iPhones. Crackberry users, Android fans, etc. are also guilty.

By: krell

krell — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:47:51 +0000

But what if my iPhone IS more important than you?

Ever think about that?

By: Ricardo Bueno

Ricardo Bueno — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:25:08 +0000

So is checking in on your crackberry. I’ve trained myself to put my phone on silent. And if I’m every meeting someone for coffee, I certainly don’t check my phone (I’m there, in the conversation).

The other day though I knew I was waiting on an important email and phone call to come through so I very politely asked my guest if it was ok that I place my phone on the table and if I might excuse myself for a quick minute or two for a message I was awaiting. They didn’t mind at all but rather appreciated that I took the time to ask.

It’s not that difficult to do something as simple as that (in my opinion)…

By: mike

mike — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:25:27 +0000

You have got to be kidding me…

You don’t like people checking their phone while they speak to you?? maybe you should move back to 1989.

Get over it goof… its just not that big a deal.

dingbat.

(by the way, i would do it while i spoke to the president… but you are not the president you are a whiney nobody who has fallen behind the times.)

By: Jay S. Fleischman

Jay S. Fleischman — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:05:44 +0000

If a client or friend checks their iPhone (or BlackBerry, or takes a call, or whatever) when I’m with them, I simply do the same. I make sure I’m still occupied when they finish, and I make them wait.

Funny how it makes them realize just how annoying it is.

In “Stranger In A Strange Land,” one character describes another character kissing as, “with his whole being.” I’ve always extrapolated that to having a goal of doing one thing with all of your concentration if you think it’s worthwhile.

And if it’s not worthwhile, don’t do it at all.

By: Ahuna

Ahuna — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:00:12 +0000

I went on a date a few months ago with a woman who couldn't stop talking on her fucking blackberry. Now I know I twitter way too much but this was super annoying….

By: billyjacks

billyjacks — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:15:16 +0000

If I’m standing within a few feet of someone while they talk, they should hopefully understand that they took some sort of priority over many other people.

All the same… If I get an Oh My God Becky text or email in on my mobile leash, I at least have to take a moment to respond. It’s only fair since I am giving you face time instead of them.

They already know they they weren’t important enough for me to be physically there with them. I don’t want the guilt of potentially missing the crucial text about how their doctor just told them their couch is on fire.

And I apologize if this comment seems a little disheveled. I started typing it and then someone sent me link to youtube of a cat playing piano. U srsly need 2 c it!!! XD

By: Diane Brogan

Diane Brogan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:11:53 +0000

Great post and oh so true. Don’t pretend to have a conversation with me. If it is only 15 seconds, be here in the present – then go play with your phone thingy.

By: oddmartini

oddmartini — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:14:59 +0000

I’ve had a woman texting some other guy all through a date with her…
What does that say about her? About me?

By: Reg Blank

Reg Blank — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:27:02 +0000

re: Tyler – there’s no maybe in your case; you’re definitely an un-ironic bore.

double points for this point. most people wouldn’t masturbate in public, yet fiddling with one’s hand over this device for their own auto-gratification is acceptable behavior.

lift a finger and open an ear or eye when you’re out and about. that simple.

By: Mtn. Jim

Mtn. Jim — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:14:39 +0000

well said my man! stop your friggin’ multitasking and focus on us for a bit will ya? when we’re done, go fer it, except while driving,ok?!!

Mtn. Jim

By: CT Moore

CT Moore — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:46:54 +0000

What if I’m reading this post on an iPhone? Does that count?

By: Eric Jean

Eric Jean — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:31:24 +0000

To all smartphone users:

When is the last time you consciously chose not to answer that call / return that message / reply to that text right in the moment?

When’s the last time you shut your phone off?

There’s a desperate fear somewhere in there. More importantly, there’s a total loss of self-control. We’ve all been conditioned to the same pavlovian response – we can’t just NOT be available anymore.

We have made ourselves slaves to other people’s intrusive demands for our time and attention.

Who’s in control – the phone or the user?

By: Jeremy Meyers

Jeremy Meyers — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:13:33 +0000

People who check their phones while talking to people are at that moment not appreciating being in the moment, that this moment is all that there is. They’re looking for the next thing, because being present is hard for them.

Give them love, for they (as all) need it.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:51:27 +0000

I know. It’s like when people do a blog post just to bitch at someone.

By: blork

blork — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:35:15 +0000

Just as the world is divided into Mac people and PC people, so too is it divided into iPhone people and Blackberry people.

In corporate environments it’s almost 100% Blackberry. However, the same problem exists. You can’t have a conversation with someone without them looking at their Blackberry every 30 seconds. Worse still is that you can see them scrolling and reading messages in the middle of your conversation. GET OVER IT! Can’t those emails wait two minutes? DAMN!

By: Tracy Lee Carroll

Tracy Lee Carroll — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:56:21 +0000

It all comes down to respect… Something that people have been believing that they don’t need anymore in the digital age.

By: Tyler Hurst

Tyler Hurst — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:40:43 +0000

Who gives a shit? Either ask them to stop or get over it. Bitching won’t get you anywhere.

Maybe you just aren’t that interesting.