How many of you do these?

10 Smart Phone Habbits you should AVOID :smiley:

I found this list to be so true, and I swear it is VERY annoying…it drives me nuts…so tell me which ones do you do? Dnt tell me none, you have to be doing some of it…I do one of them…but I do have a reason for it (it sounds like a good reason to me anyway).

Here is the list first and I’ll tell you which one I do..

**1. Drunk -tweeting, -texting, -Instagramming, etc.
**Long gone are the days when the only witnesses to your inebriated ramblings were other bar patrons who also saw you stumble from your bar stool to the ground. Whether you’re able to keep it together with spelling and syntax (in which case, you’ve just got the world going, “Wait, she wants to do WHAT to Paul Ryan?!”), or your typing skills erode quickly, alcohol & mobiles don’t mix.

**2.Fooling around on your phone whenever you have a spare moment.
**We need unstructured time for creativity to foster, down time in which we mess around and let our disconnected thoughts gel into cool ideas. If you turn every spare moment (a red light, a line at the salad station, a ride in the elevator) into an excuse to check your cinemagram feed, you just won’t have those artistic a ha! moments. (And no, “Draw Something” doesn’t count.)

**3. Passive-aggressively whining for the whole world to see.
**Look, we all have our personal stock of First World Problems, frustrated complaints with the minor injustices committed by a cruel, uncaring world. That’s been true since the dawn of time. Now we just have myriad means of expressing them.
Nobody cares about your thinly veiled railings against your ex or roommate or employer, OK? Unless you’ve scribbled it on a notepad, in which case you should share it with the world. So that we can laugh at you.

**4. Being really, really scared to actually use the phone.
**Phones and tablets have made it oh so easy to communicate without using our voiceboxes. This is bad for relationships for oh so many reasons. Anais Nin would just hate it. Hit “dial” and enjoy the time-honored pas de deux of two humans, you know, talking.

**5. Missing your favorite band’s concert because you’re so busy taking crappy photos, letting your phone ring and fiddling with your phone during the set.
**Your hard-of-hearing, reformed punk-rock uncle was right: Concerts really WERE better back in the day, not necessarily because music really meant something, man, but because the audience actually paid attention and sang along and danced instead of holding their phones in the air and spending 30-plus seconds trying to find the shutter button on the front of the screen.
Your punkle would be so disappointed if he still made it out to shows today.

**6. Texting salacious pictures.
**The ritual sharing of NC-17 photos used to be a complicated analog affair involving Polaroids and furtive looks. Nowadays, people just drop trou, snap and send. Analyze THAT, Anais Nin.

**7. Turning your friends into enemies with videos of them.
**Camcorders have become tiny and discreet and as user-friendly as checking your e-mail. This is potentially bad news for those people you hang out with, as you hold in your hands a recording device that can humiliate them forever.
Set ground rules and roll the camera judiciously, lest you wind up publicly shaming a friend for her foul mouth, caught-on-film fart or unpopular political opinions.

**8. Letting your seething anger leach out into the world at large.
**Humans have always done stupid things when they’re emotionally riled up. Now, those tantrums and rages and outbursts are shared and cached for the world to see. Take a deep breath and put down the smartphone.

**9. Texting while walking.
**Rarely does this go well. Whatever’s so urgent can probably wait a few minutes. Or you can, you know, actually call the person (see No. 4).

10. Using your phone in the bathroom.
Don’t. Just don’t.

Source :

10 smartphone habits you should avoid - CNN.com

Re: How many of you do these?

I do number 4… I have reason for it, coz of the line of work I am in…I talk to toooooo many ppl over the phone that in my spare time, I do not want to even put the phone next to my ear!!!

On the other hand my dear husband does : 2,9,10 :grumpy:

Number 9 is what drives me nuts about him, I have threatened him quite a few times that am gonna throw is BB out of the window…I am always walking ahead of him then I have to wait for him to catch up!!!

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:hehe: at your husbands!

hmmm I don’t exactly do any of them..if anything I’d say border line number 2. :bummer:

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Hopefully no one does numbers 1 & 6 here :p

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I do No.10 and i have an app for that - Poop Diary :biggthumb:

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i also do no.10 and not just phone but also my ipad

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:rotfl: what? DIARY? what do you do with it?

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Really? Why? :bummer: and yea what’s the poop diary all about.

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I don't understand why there's anything wrong in taking your phone to the bathroom. I think we're adults and understand how germ transfer takes place.

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Its not about germ transfer and taking phone to bathroom is fine - we take our purses and what not. But, seriously is it THAT important to be on your phone while sitting on the toilet seat?

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did you hear about the guy who kept tapping on the tp while wiping with his samsung S3?

no? me neither.

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Cdg, no, not important or urgent at all. Just arguing for the sake of argument :D.

Queer, eeeesh.

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niksik, where is my frand tlk? if anyone has the authority to talk about 10, it is him. please let him post on this one thread and then you can send him back to jharoo pocha plz plz plz?

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2368and10 :(

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^ hawwwwww..r u sure about number 6? :cb:

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Well, part of it is out of boredom....we can atke books and magazines and newspapers, why not a phone? esp since phones can now have books (the kindle app) etc.
part of it is if you're busy (like if you have a job where you're not allowed to have your phone out or it seen), those extra few minutes on the toilet can help you catch up with emails or facebook or whatever
or if you're waiting for a call/text while taking a shower.

only thing I wouldn't do is talk on the phone while in the bathroom. cz tha'ts a no -no

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well…some ppl do that as well, I was at work, and the girl in one of the stalls was talking to who ever in hindi (probably thought no one would understand), and then she actually has to say to the other person “nahiii..main soo soo kar rahi hoon” :smack:

Did she really have to tell the person what exactly she is doing???!

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I take it back. I would talk but only to a non desi/non-muslim person and only if it was really necessary (again if I’m at work and really need to make that call?). cz, well, if I call a desi and they say salaam, main kya kahoon gi :smack:

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:rotfl: Shukar she didn’t say that other thing. :hehe:

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Yea, I don't think one should be reading magazines on the toilet either. :/