Are you one of them?

[Kronos]

That has the face buried in your mobile phone whilst walking along the road, on a bus or train in fact any and everywhere?

And if so what are you doing on it? I might check my email sporadically is waiting on something but not much else unless I am in hospital or some such.

So what are you doing?

 

[dirtychinchilla]

Absolutely. Texting my girlfriend. Checking out funny pictures on Whatsapp. Reading reddit. Browsing Facebook. Looking at my own pictures. Changing the music I'm listening to.

It's great.

 

[MikeTheNative]

OP, do you know what apps are?

 

[bartledvd]

I do not own a mobile so thankfully i am not one of them lol

 

[Sliver]

I don't look at my phone usually until it tells me I need to. I might whip it out to check the time as I don't wear a watch, but that's about it.

 

[Judgeneo]

Whatsapp, maps, or puzzle games if on transport.

 

[Cleisthenes]

I do not own a mobile so thankfully i am not one of them lol

That's impressive. How do you get around not having one?!

 

[ADT]

When there is nothing interesting to look at then yeah

 

[thep02]

That has the face buried in your mobile phone whilst walking along the road, on a bus or train in fact any and everywhere?

And if so what are you doing on it? I might check my email sporadically is waiting on something but not much else unless I am in hospital or some such.

So what are you doing?

Reading websites, buying stuff, checking my communications, reading a book on kindle for android and rarely looking at photo's but mainly reading websites.

 

[Kuros]

I can't remember the last time I looked at my phone for something other than email/calls/texts. Even then I do that about twice a day.

 

[mjt]

I can't remember the last time I looked at my phone for something other than email/calls/texts. Even then I do that about twice a day.

Time to upgrade from your Motorola MicroTAC?

Oh wait, you use your phone for email..

Time to upgrade from your Nokia Communicator 9000?

 

[thep02]

I can't imagine sitting blankly looking out if the train window, even before smartphones I would buy a bevy of mags and newspapers before a long train journey.

 

[bartledvd]

That's impressive. How do you get around not having one?!

It is really easy as all friends and family know contact me with a purpose not just to see what I'm up to and if I'm in work well I'm offshore either on a boat of up a turbine so I'm not coming back in a hurry but truthfully i hate them and when I'm home daughters and misses phone goes on silent i hate the stupid chimes they make all the time It's my one major grumpy man thing

 

[rubberduck]

Will probably have a play on the phone if sat on a train etc and in the absence of a book or newspaper... Walking down the street certainly not.

 

[Kronos]

OP, do you know what apps are?

Of course I do. I have a perfect set of apps I do loads of Spiderman plank crunches morning and night.

 

[Moothead2]

Looking at your phone is no different to reading a newspaper walking through the street or while on a train. I understand the annoyance when people do it during a social events but in this case it's the same argument as saying gaming is a waste of time but reading a book in bed or watching TV isn't.

 

[Redgie]

I don't look at my phone usually until it tells me I need to. I might whip it out to check the time as I don't wear a watch, but that's about it.

 

[elmarko]

Check time, reply to urgent messages or switch songs.

The only exception is a really long road I go down on the way to work, it's always empty & very boring - there I catch up with the morning news.

 

[mrk]

China has a solution for this.

 

[mattyfez]

All this technology is making people anti social.

On a more serious note, why limit yourself to a magazine or newspaper when you have a PC and the whole Internet in your pocket?