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[–] Hypersapien 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We walk around with a little rectangle in our pocket that gives us access to the sum total of human knowledge, but we mostly use it for looking at funny captioned pictures, the same pictures over and over just with different captions.

It's called a phone but no one ever uses it as one.

[–] irinotecan 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, the "video telephone" that everyone always so desperately awaited from the future? Yeah, we have that; no, nobody uses it, because we can't be bothered to dress up for a phone call.

[–] PassingDuchy 7 points 1 year ago

I also thought no one used facetime until I worked retail recently... The amount of people I saw come in on a facetime calls where they both just had their cameras pointed at the ceiling was bizarre and boggling.

[–] gmtom 5 points 1 year ago

Tell that to the tonnes of people that facetious in public but neither them nor the person they are calling are actually in frame

[–] FReddit 2 points 1 year ago

That pretty much sums it up.

The phone never leaves my side, but I dread getting an actual phone call.