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I grew up around the start of the switch to smartphones, I miss good old reliable numpad phones, especially the sliding ones (used a Nokia E65 at the time which I still consider one of the best phones ever made), smartphones are more complicated than they should be, past the ability to call, send messages and check your email, phones don't need anything more, keep things simple and cheap:/

I miss my 6630 when I was a teenager. Now that was a badass phone. I still remember the high res nudes I used to receive on that phone. :')

There is nothing smart in walking around like a zombie staring at a screen while not paying attention to anything – including cars. Being a slave of a portable computer is not smart either.

The strange (and IHMO bad) manners that those phones brought with them are now widely accepted.

I will not even start talking about the (mostly ignored) privacy problems that come with current smartphones.

Technology is almost never good or bad itself.
* The (cheap and readily available) cellphone can be a great help and even a lifesaver.
* Having a computer, powerful as a giant supercomputer from about two decades ago, in your pocket can be a very good thing.
* The internet as such can do very much good – as for example the GBAtemp forum shows.

The sad thing is how technology is often (mis)used.

nostalgiefuchs :3

I'm just happy that I don't have to be a kid anymore, that is more important than any phone for me....

It isn't so much the technology itself that bothers me. Rather it is the behaviour that people have adopted since its arrival.
I can't even talk to my parents anymore because they are always glued to that screen. As if talking wasn't hard enough already.

And then the stupid movies they send eachother all the time, argh.

Thank god I don't have to use public transport anymore. A bus or train ride without whatsapp noises? No chance...
Once I saw a guy walk headfirst into a lamppost because he was staring at the screen. Moments like that are the spice of life.

Sad or funny? I can't decide. But yeah, a little less smartphone and constant connectivity can be refreshing and healthy. It's not that I'm not guilty myself.

I have the bad habit of browsing my favourite websites in bed, and that completely messes up my sleep. I have to tell myself not to bring the phone into the bedroom anymore.

@Flofflewoffle
Yeah, I know what you mean. I don't wish that back either. It is just that you can't see people without a phone in hand anymore that annoys me a bit.