Are you addicted to looking down?

[Daniela1982]

Looking down is a global epidemic. In the US, the average person spends more than 5 hours a day scrolling on their smartphone - sometime while walking, jogging, or even on a bicycle or scooter. Heaven forbid, but yes, even when driving. It can be a problem. On one April Fools' Day in Philadelphia, city officials used tape to make an "E-lane" on city sidewalks downtown. An "E-lane" is a fake path for pedestrians to use while they walk with their heads down staring at their electronic devices. The whole thing was supposed to make a funny thing to remind people to look up from their devices while walking city streets. Most people didn't get the joke, thinking that the E-lanes were real. In fact, when the tape was removed the city started to get complaints from people who thought the E-lane was a great idea.

Are you one of the ones who do this? Not paying attention to your surroundings? So, which of you doesn't hold your head up, especially when driving?

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Unfortunately This Is The World Nowadays.

Tech Disorder

Really?

Is this safe?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/04awN3n-qFs

Phones, phones, phones. Phones are everywhere nowadays. You go to restaurants everyone are on their phones. You go for a walk everyone are on their phones. You go to the store everyone are on their phones. You go to an event everyone are on their phones. Nowadays it’s so unbelievable & people are always looking down when they should be looking ahead or at least aware of their surroundings. As for me I’m not addicted to looking down in fact I’m not like everyone else & if truth be told I don’t have a smartphone I have a flip phone & that is by choice. As for me I don’t look down like everyone else & that is only because I have things to look up to & forward to as well.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I'm a bit of a computer addict at home but never got very addicted to smartphones.

One of the main things that turn me off is that I just don't like typing on those damned teeny touchscreens. I can type really fast on a computer (haven't recorded myself but I was officially close to 300 WPM at one point in my teens). Yet on a smartphone, I don't even think I can type at 30 WPM.

It's soooo snail pace. So on computer, when my friends message me and ask me how it's going, I'll type paragraphs. But on smartphone, I go, "ugh" and write, "GUD. U [don't want to take the time to put the question mark in there]."

So I just don't use my mobile phones all that much. I've also never taken selfies even once in my life. Never understood that trend.

[Daniela1982]

I hear you. I don't have much in the way of fingernails, so typing on a cell phone screen is a chore. Yet my sister is a whiz and can write War and Peace in about 5 minutes. 😲

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I think I might have been too old and too used to things as they are by the time touchscreens became popular, although I used to be able to type semi-fast when we had actual buttons on our flip-phones, pressing like "111" to type "C" (I forgot the exact name of this). That I ended up getting used to my early 20s when I was still able to adapt quite quickly to new tech.

One of the problems in my case is that I don't type properly. My typing teacher made an exception for me since I was able to type vastly faster than any other student she ever had despite typing improperly. Instead of designating a finger to each key in home position, I allow any finger that's conveniently in reach based on the last key I pressed to press the next key. I'm about as fast even crossing over my hands and typing that way. That's how I came close to almost breaking the Guinness world record in typing back then.

I learned it intuitively as a boy having a strong preference for computer games (including text-based ones that required typing all the time) over console games. But it's based heavily on the tactile quality of being able to feel each individual key and the spacing between, something completely absent on touchscreens. So absent the sense of touch to guide me, I slow down to a crawl.

[Nikki1989]

It is a sickness.

[Likes2drive]

I look at it when not moving, the moment I’m walking I stop if I’m going to look at it again, if driving i only look at it if I’m waiting at a light but constantly looking to see if it changed

[exitseven]

I look down a lot especially on campus because the kids are always dropping money on the ground. I pay extra attention at the college bus stop. I found dollar bills se Era times and once found a twenty. Near the door outside my office I found a 50 dollar Amazon gift card. I went on Amazon's website and i checked and it was still good.

[Lliam]

Nope. I keep my phone with me, but I don't use it much. I don't use it for social media at all. And when I'm out and about, I'm aware of my surroundings.

[Billlewis]

Yes, because I'm always looking at women's feet;)

[Daniela1982]

You misspelled "ass". 😂🤣

[Yannae]

I listen to music using my phone, but once the song is playing I put it in my pocket. I do notice that I'm looking down while doing sports like running.

[Wiredone]

I only look down at my phone when I have nothing else going on. I don't even look down when I'm walking. I'm constantly scanning my environment around me

[888theGreat]

I have found $20 bills and Gold rings looking down

[jamesgoldman]

Yeah I've found cash and gold/silver from looking down... my best hit was an 18kt cufflink I sold for £330

[Daniela1982]

And have probably run into a sign pole too.

[jamesgoldman]

Yeah as a kid I split my head open on a sign, I got a bit of compensation from that

[Massageman]

My son-in-law is: he's 6'5"!

[CubaPirate]

Thankfully not