Communication is vital to the coexistence of humans, As a result of technological advancements resulting to the creation of smartphones and other sophisticated gadgets like computers which has become one of the greatest communication tool for man kind. It is quite obvious that existence of gadgets such as smartphones has gotten rid of most communication challenges that serves as a hindrance, for example the case of boundaries have been eliminated.
How long can l last without using my phone? before I answer this, you need to understand the bond my phone and I.
I and my phone have a solidarity relationship or should I say a symbiotic relationship. If I'm being sincere before the whole graduation stuff it has always been me and my phone, I'm not really a fan of sharing my thoughts or talk about it. The only way I know how to do that is probably to write poems about it which I write down either on the note app on my phone or my poem book.
Due to the kind of activities I use my smart phone for it is very difficult for me to do without it, I remember a time my phone was snatched by pick pockets {Swindlers or thieves that make a living by stealing through deeping hands into people's bags or pocket on the street or bus stop} they are mostly common in crowded areas.
This incident happened in acme street, agidigbi, Ikeja, Lagos State. We were rushing to board a bus, my phone was in my front pocket. Immediately I noticed a hand in my pocket but before I could find time to get hold of it, my phone was already gone. That was one of the most saddest moment of my life because I had a lot of files on that phone, it took me about a week before I could get another smartphone but that one week without my phone felt like forever.
I also use my smartphone for my business endeavours, despite managing a physical business, I depend so much on online advertisement to get in touch with customers. It is kind of a norm these days, every business owner understand how value the internet is when it comes reaching out to people, especially social media.
As an individual, over the years I have grown fond of the usage of social media to perform some activities most especially reaching out to people, advertise any kind of product or services I wish to create awareness for. Though I wouldn't say I'm actually a pro in making use of social media, looking at the rate at which I use social media to perform tasks, I still consider my activities on social media to be limited.
Probably because I'm not really building any professional career on social media, maybe if that is the case i would have made use of social media more often but since that is not the case looking at my statistical record of usage of social media on my device I realise social media apps or platforms I make use of are very few, which includes WhatsApp, telegram, X, discord e.t.c.
Apart from that, one of the major things I use my smart phone is to perform activities on my hive account. Though when I first started my hive career, I occasionally make use of my laptop for writing and publishing of post but then over time I realized it consumes more data compared to using my phone. For awhile now, I use my smart phone for my hive activities.
Being specific about how long I can do without my smartphone is practically impossible because right now, I'm making use of my smartphone. Though I don't make use of my laptop very often, only when I need to edit larger documents or write a story. How dependent are you on your smartphone? well I would say highly dependent. It might sound unhealthy but it is just the way things are. I need my smartphone for a lot of things which increases the rate at which I depend on it.
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