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What are the three things you use the most on your cell phone? For many people, I know it is the phone, SMS and then the touchscreen. They, the people I’ve talked to spend time playing games, browsing the internet and so on, all using the touch screen of the device. I would, as a cautionary tale, remind you of the dark ages when touchscreens did not exist, and we used a stylus. Not mind you that stylus entry is bad. I miss that from time to time. I find myself using the Apple Pencil on my iPad more and more. There is just something about that. But it was interesting, I asked about ten people and got the responses pretty quickly. Now if you reverse the initial question. First, off I asked people what do you use your cell phone for most.
If we reversed the question though and added the element of time the order changes, then the touchscreen becomes the most used. Some people also said the GPS of their phone as well when considering time the boundary. There is a great Peter, Paul, and Mary song about buying a computer to save time and then the line goes “now I spend all time on the computer.” Personal productivity devices, that was the origin of the PC — not time sucks or time consumers, rather productivity devices. The promise of the computer, then the phone and finally the tablet was to help, enable, empower us to be more productive while spending more time, not being productive.
Sometimes, I wonder about that. The cell phone makes it possible to work until you are asleep. Wake up and start working again. To work on weekends, to work on holidays. Not that work is bad mind you. I love my job. I am asked to think. I love that! But that concept of time away from work was one that I know my father, and my grandfather, as well as my mother, weren’t always the best at. My grandmother was great at it, but she was due to the rampant sexism in the US in the 1920s forced to stop working because she got married (yes, it was an actual HR policy). They realized, the company she worked for, that she was the comptroller that knew how to operate the system. They asked her, after laying her off, to come back. My grandfather said she would come back as a consultant, for more money but not as an employee. My grandmother was an early technologist when it came to the computing machines used by Comptrollers in large retail companies.
Let’s end how we began what are the three things you do most with your cell phone today?
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What do you do most on your cell phone?
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I call people it is a phone after all
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I surf the internet
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I use it to keep my hands warm, it does produce a lot of heat!
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I play games on it!
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Question of
Have you ever used a Stylus with a computer, phone or tablet?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Which day of the week is the most fun?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Do you think Sunday is the most fun day?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Do you think Saturday is the most fun day?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Do you think weekdays are more fun than weekends?
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Yes
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No
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It seems like all days are fun for me, weekdays or weekend because everything can still contain work and family.
Well it seems you are more balanced than I am! I like the weekends for my personal stuff and of course, the week for my work stuff!
I work every day of the week. Actually, I rarely know what day of the week it is.
I really have been trying to keep my work and personal life in balance lately. In the past, I used to work all weekend, and then come Monday wake up exhausted. 90 hour work weeks aren’t good for anyone.
No particular favorite day for me.
Now that is a great way to view the world!