Horrors Of The IPhone - How To Simplify Your Life

It is considered socially alright to be on a phone walking down a street by yourself. It is alright to use your phone for gps while in the car. It is alright to become a children photographer with your phone.

Why is it considered alright to talk on a phone while in the company of another? Is it alright to text other people or to check your Facebook while in the company of others? Today the media wants us to feel that we have better connections around the globe because of the technology that people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have created. The media wants us to feel that we should be on our IPhones all the time. The problem with this is, however, that I have noticed an alarming trend for people to be talking, texting, or surfing the internet on the IPhones while in the company of their friends. The phone is taking away from actual human contact. Movies like Wall-E tell a bleak future of the human race where humans travel around on hover chairs and have no human contact. They stare at monitors and computer screens being sheep for advertising or any messages the governing body wants to send them. They absorb without question, reason, or even standing. I know this is a ways off...or is it?

With over 30,000 apps in the Apple App Store, no wonder a person can spend all their time on the phone. They can buy an app that is a virtual Zippo lighter...and do what? They can buy an app that is a shotgun: you have to move the phone back and forth to cock it, then tilt it up like a recoil to shoot the gun. The gun makes a sound, and that is the end. By the way, the Zippo lighter app has over 260,000 downloads at this point. IPhones can be a nice addition to a person with maps, mobile contact, and music all built into one. The problem lies in the mass obsession to be on it all the time. How much does the IPhone make you more complete knowing how many Diggs the funny store you found online has gotten? Does it make a difference in having the information up to the minute instead of logging on a computer once at nighttime? Improve your life today. Stop using the IPhone like it is an attachment to your body.

Jeff Fauss
Los Angeles Portrait Photographer