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iPhone Addiction

evilgreg said:
Update for everyone who seems to care about my situation:

I'm going to the bar with everyone from work tonight and she's going to be there too. I'm going to talk to her and find out if it was really what you are all saying about me. I'll ask her if she agrees with ur posts, I'll bring up the responses on my iphone and figure out if you're all as smart as you think you are.

I'll post back here over the weekend and let you all know.

Also I'm not addicted to WeRule anymore, that game got so old and FAST. But I still agree that what I said in my previous post that the technology just needs to catch up to the data and information we have right now. I guarantee that in a few years someone will invent something we can use that we wont have to take out a phone and look down, we will be able to have constant information flowing across everything we look at so we wont have to be ignoring people at dinner, we will be able to play games and chat with them at the same time.
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what are you smoking on broski?

dude, seriously, just get a robo-japanese girlfriend,

It'll do you good :)
 
evilgreg said:
It can answer yes to all, ESPECIALLY the relationship one. Here's the story:

My gf is not a big fan of cell phones at all and since the first day that I bought the iphone she didnt like it. She hated the fact that at dinner and breakfast i would just fiddle with my new toy and completely ignore her and make no effort at conversation (hey, who can blame me! the thing has so many apps for everything! the crossword app is ADDICTING). and in bed at night we used to read books together and cuddle but i would stay up all night watching podcasts and browsing the web on my side of the bed.

what really set her off was the time we went to her parents house for thanksgiving dinner and i was supposed to carve the turkey so i looked up an app for turkey recommendations and wine pairing but i got so sucked in that i forgot to actually carve the turkey! i ended up sitting on the phone in my chair for over an hour and didnt talk to anyone-i even forgot to grab a plate until someone brought one to me (i forgot who) and her one aunt apparently got mad when they said grace and i was not paying attention. but come on! we do thanksgiving every friggin year! who cares if one time i was on my phone.

after that she tried to start a rule that no iphone were allowed in the house or she would break up with me (we were engaged, together for about 5 yrs at that point). whatever, i said, if u cant take me for who i am then we shouldnt be together. she ended up not enforcing that rule and stayed together with me for a few months. we finally broke up when she approached me bc we didnt have sex in like months so she wanted to with me but during sex (no joke--this really happened lol) i got a push notification that my WeRule crop was ready to be harvested...needless to say i couldnt keep going with her and had to harvest my crop. after i did that and some other things, about an hour later she wouldnt continue and we went to sleep. turns out she was crying and the next morning she packed up! lol! whatever.
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This is beyond pathetic! I really mean it!
 
evilgreg said:
It can answer yes to all, ESPECIALLY the relationship one. Here's the story:

My gf is not a big fan of cell phones at all and since the first day that I bought the iphone she didnt like it. She hated the fact that at dinner and breakfast i would just fiddle with my new toy and completely ignore her and make no effort at conversation (hey, who can blame me! the thing has so many apps for everything! the crossword app is ADDICTING). and in bed at night we used to read books together and cuddle but i would stay up all night watching podcasts and browsing the web on my side of the bed.

what really set her off was the time we went to her parents house for thanksgiving dinner and i was supposed to carve the turkey so i looked up an app for turkey recommendations and wine pairing but i got so sucked in that i forgot to actually carve the turkey! i ended up sitting on the phone in my chair for over an hour and didnt talk to anyone-i even forgot to grab a plate until someone brought one to me (i forgot who) and her one aunt apparently got mad when they said grace and i was not paying attention. but come on! we do thanksgiving every friggin year! who cares if one time i was on my phone.

after that she tried to start a rule that no iphone were allowed in the house or she would break up with me (we were engaged, together for about 5 yrs at that point). whatever, i said, if u cant take me for who i am then we shouldnt be together. she ended up not enforcing that rule and stayed together with me for a few months. we finally broke up when she approached me bc we didnt have sex in like months so she wanted to with me but during sex (no joke--this really happened lol) i got a push notification that my WeRule crop was ready to be harvested...needless to say i couldnt keep going with her and had to harvest my crop. after i did that and some other things, about an hour later she wouldnt continue and we went to sleep. turns out she was crying and the next morning she packed up! lol! whatever.
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Why do I have an urge to track you down and whoop your ass?
 
I have to say that reading this thread is like watching a car crash...you shrink away at the screeching noise, but feel compelled to watch in spite of your good judgement and common sense...
 
1kcb1 said:
I'm doing some research into the addictive nature of iPhones and would love to speak to anyone who feels they are addicted to their iPhones.
Has it caused problems in your relationships?
Does your life rely on iPhone apps organising it?
Do you get anxious when you notice the battery slowly dying?
I feel like I'm getting more and more addicted by the minute so would love to see if others are too!
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Yes, but can't this be said about most consumer devices?
 
evilgreg said:
It can answer yes to all, ESPECIALLY the relationship one. Here's the story:

My gf is not a big fan of cell phones at all and since the first day that I bought the iphone she didnt like it. She hated the fact that at dinner and breakfast i would just fiddle with my new toy and completely ignore her and make no effort at conversation (hey, who can blame me! the thing has so many apps for everything! the crossword app is ADDICTING). and in bed at night we used to read books together and cuddle but i would stay up all night watching podcasts and browsing the web on my side of the bed.

what really set her off was the time we went to her parents house for thanksgiving dinner and i was supposed to carve the turkey so i looked up an app for turkey recommendations and wine pairing but i got so sucked in that i forgot to actually carve the turkey! i ended up sitting on the phone in my chair for over an hour and didnt talk to anyone-i even forgot to grab a plate until someone brought one to me (i forgot who) and her one aunt apparently got mad when they said grace and i was not paying attention. but come on! we do thanksgiving every friggin year! who cares if one time i was on my phone.

after that she tried to start a rule that no iphone were allowed in the house or she would break up with me (we were engaged, together for about 5 yrs at that point). whatever, i said, if u cant take me for who i am then we shouldnt be together. she ended up not enforcing that rule and stayed together with me for a few months. we finally broke up when she approached me bc we didnt have sex in like months so she wanted to with me but during sex (no joke--this really happened lol) i got a push notification that my WeRule crop was ready to be harvested...needless to say i couldnt keep going with her and had to harvest my crop. after i did that and some other things, about an hour later she wouldnt continue and we went to sleep. turns out she was crying and the next morning she packed up! lol! whatever.
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Is this real life?
 
evilgreg said:
It can answer yes to all, ESPECIALLY the relationship one. Here's the story:

My gf is not a big fan of cell phones at all and since the first day that I bought the iphone she didnt like it. She hated the fact that at dinner and breakfast i would just fiddle with my new toy and completely ignore her and make no effort at conversation (hey, who can blame me! the thing has so many apps for everything! the crossword app is ADDICTING). and in bed at night we used to read books together and cuddle but i would stay up all night watching podcasts and browsing the web on my side of the bed.

what really set her off was the time we went to her parents house for thanksgiving dinner and i was supposed to carve the turkey so i looked up an app for turkey recommendations and wine pairing but i got so sucked in that i forgot to actually carve the turkey! i ended up sitting on the phone in my chair for over an hour and didnt talk to anyone-i even forgot to grab a plate until someone brought one to me (i forgot who) and her one aunt apparently got mad when they said grace and i was not paying attention. but come on! we do thanksgiving every friggin year! who cares if one time i was on my phone.

after that she tried to start a rule that no iphone were allowed in the house or she would break up with me (we were engaged, together for about 5 yrs at that point). whatever, i said, if u cant take me for who i am then we shouldnt be together. she ended up not enforcing that rule and stayed together with me for a few months. we finally broke up when she approached me bc we didnt have sex in like months so she wanted to with me but during sex (no joke--this really happened lol) i got a push notification that my WeRule crop was ready to be harvested...needless to say i couldnt keep going with her and had to harvest my crop. after i did that and some other things, about an hour later she wouldnt continue and we went to sleep. turns out she was crying and the next morning she packed up! lol! whatever.
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I kinda wanna punch you in the face, no offense lol.
I hope you're not actually serious, because if all this is true, you are basically the biggest ****** in the world. I hope your iPhone breaks and your computer does too so then you would lose all your backup and would be stuck with nothing. Lol you have no life whatsoever. You're so lame it's hard for me to comprehend just how stupid you are.

Oh and OP, IT'S A DAMN PHONE. Who cares?! I don't see how people can be addicted to a cell phone. It's not like sex or drugs or anything of that sort. It's not addicting. It's literally a piece of plastic (in this case glass) that you play around with. If I had to choose between a life or my iPhone, I'd ditch the iPhone in a heartbeat. Especially when it comes to my relationship with my girlfriend. A Phone can't bring me the happiness and pleasure that she can.
 
it's a joke guys

iPhaithful said:
Evilgreg has to be a troll.
Either that, or one of those fat, long haired, pimple faced, glasses wearing, comic book collecting retards. Lol, funny story though!
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hehe :D, look, I've just had to register only to post this. I could be wrong but...
that's the whole point of evilgreg's post, I mean...come on guys, you really don't get it, do you?

oh, and congrats evilgreg for being funny and use imagination in an otherwise boring tech forum, you should be a writer of some sort.

I guess I'll stick around for a while.
 
Nippur said:
oh, and congrats evilgreg for being funny and use imagination in an otherwise boring tech forum, you should be a writer of some sort.
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There is one thing that rings true about evilgreg's post: he is most definitely without a girlfriend. :)
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

That story gave me quite a laugh. Clearly BS, but funny none the less.

No guy stops mid coitus for anything, except perhaps your being on fire. And even then, you'll first calculate how much time you have before you must stop. And even then, you may not stop anyhow!!
 
evilgreg said:
I think everyone in this thread is taking my comment out of perspective.

I want to start by saying that, I am a geek and I love shiny sexy gadgets. The iPhone is the first time I've ever felt like I have everything I could ever need in one little brick shaped device. The holy grail if you will.

My (ex)gf never respected my interest in gadgets, she liked things like hiking and watching movies or playing games together. That didn't ever interest me (it used to a little...but that was before my eyes were opened to constant data being available to me any time I wanted).

The fact that she couldn't understand why I wanted to play on the iPhone (between jailbreaking/hacking with it, and social networking, and crossword games) showed me that she wasn't aware of my needs. After she split up with me it took me a while to figure this out, but I stopped being sad once I realized that's the problem!

Every once in a while I'll bump into her on the street but as we're talking I pretend to get a text message and take out my phone to see if shes changed and she always gets that sad look on her face. She hasn't changed and that proves it. She told me that she hates the iphone and not me because the iphone killed the man she fell in love with, but i say, get over it! I'm an apple guy at heart!
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That's really sad... if it were true.
 
evilgreg said:
Update for everyone who seems to care about my situation:

I'm going to the bar with everyone from work tonight and she's going to be there too. I'm going to talk to her and find out if it was really what you are all saying about me. I'll ask her if she agrees with ur posts, I'll bring up the responses on my iphone and figure out if you're all as smart as you think you are.

I'll post back here over the weekend and let you all know.

Also I'm not addicted to WeRule anymore, that game got so old and FAST. But I still agree that what I said in my previous post that the technology just needs to catch up to the data and information we have right now. I guarantee that in a few years someone will invent something we can use that we wont have to take out a phone and look down, we will be able to have constant information flowing across everything we look at so we wont have to be ignoring people at dinner, we will be able to play games and chat with them at the same time.
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I have been reading the thread and man....You sir, are an "EPIC FAIL." You already proved the love and affection for your iPhone and neglected your entire sense of humanity, SO why try proving your point that your ex gf will even give you a REAL response? She obviously could care less and would tell you something YOU would want to hear anyways. You telling us that you keep running into her and talking to her ONLY tells me that you know that you "F#$%&* UP" and want to reconcile somehow and some way. "TESTING HER?" Please, you have become so ignorant that you are living in your own dream world thinking that she would turn a cheek for you. And don't come back making up stories of how she wants you back all the sudden. We all won't buy it.
Besides, let the girl enjoy her time with her co-workers, she doesn't need you to come by and ruin her whole night like you did your relationship.
I love my gadgets too, but if it came down to my family and loved ones, I would sacrifice my gadgets for them. Poor girl, if it turns out that she is hot....man, you're a total garbage man. You're hopeless to be honest in my opinion and you remind me of my uncle, who is obsessed with his games: Xbox 360, PS3, iPhone 3GS. My poor aunt is physically and mentally drained from his addiction, which I wouldn't be surprised if they end up getting divorced BECAUSE OF HIS ADDICTION. You are NOT receiving any of my sympathy and you wonder why you're getting flammed...take another look in the mirror my lonely mac enthusiast...

Just my .02

On a side note, I do agree that we all have an addiction but to SOME extent and not heavily addicted like evilGreg, which seems to have serious issues.
 
It seems like you too have issues, since you couldn't understand the original post is BS.
 
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