WE LIVE IN THE ERA OF SMARTPHONES BUT STUPID PEOPLE

They say the world is advancing and with that our phones too. This makes me travel my memory lane. We used our parents' phone as children, back then, was to only play this game called "Bounce." Once fully charged, their battery could remain for a decade (hyperbole, sorry).  The only phones I ever had were the ones that played Chaiyan Chaiyan Chaiyan if you would press button 5. There was one more phone which contained water in the screen. And by in the screen, I do mean in the screen. The water used to be behind a glass screen. It had a few rings and just two buttons. Back then, having a flip-open phone of Motorola meant being official- a white collared person.

Those phones are now a work of the past and, thanks to technology, will never be in our hands ever. Sony Ericsson, Nokia, and Motorola were the major companies. They had their own idea of technology. What did they know that an apple and some sung (bad pun, excuse) is waiting for them. Of course, these beautifully designed phones have no comparison with our beautifully designed (sarcasm, intended) Nokia 3310's.

 

Texting late at night and being deprived of sleep the next day has become a modern-day routine. Remember having Nokia 3310? A phone that could break your face if it fell on you while you are texting on your bed, and in an instance, THAAK! that did hurt more than your first break-up. I believe it is truly not justified to use phones this late at night when your pupils are contracting fast enough. If I didn't have a smartphone, I'd be asleep four hours earlier every night and would not regret my dark circles.

These phones are truly making our life miserable, but moreover, they are making us stupid. The other day, a friend of mine asked Siri (Every iPhone user's manager) to convert 10 USD to Pakistani Rupees. DUDE, IS IT THAT HARD!? I'll tell you.. umm..  wait, let me check on the internet. Oh yes, 1054.25 Rupees only.

Girls pout in the mirrors of washrooms and take over 50 selfies as if their standards would go any lower if they do the same, at least outside Pizza Hut. Moreover, people put thousand of filters, yet say, #Nofilters #realme #lovelife. These are the kind of people you wouldn't even recognize if you see them in Sunday Bazaar. 

Kids use phones as if their whole world resides in there. Have you seen them playing Candy Crush, which is sabrinacally proven the most annoying game ever? But what else is more annoying? When your baby cousins come to you after every minute and ask notorious questions like, "Do you have games on your phone?" No kid, NO! What I have in there is a monster that will eat you up if you even touch it! Kids these days have a phone bigger than their heads. When I was ten, I was eating a biscuit called mobile biscuit. I still do and am not at all ashamed to say it. At least, my whole life did not rely on it.

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Thanks to smartphones, nobody now wishes to live in the moment. They would rather take their phones out to click selfies, check Facebook or Whatsapp. Whenever something drastic happens, people, instead of tucking their phones, start clicking pictures of the situation. In the recent Paris attack, people ran out of the stadium with their cellphone camera on, promoting So you think you can record? Smartphones, being smart, were to help you live.

These applications suck as many brains as Taylor Swift's songs do (except that she is not smart while phones still are). When Instagram is down, do you explain what your food looks like to your friends and of course to bae with over 50 hashtags? These applications like Wattpad and Soundcloud are the reason why we have so many authors and singers. Wattpad is basically full of sad love stories and deaths. At the same time, Soundcloud only includes unneeded song remixes and humans who find similarity of voice between them and nightingales, which is an absolute misconception.

Phones cannot be your bae people. If they could, Taylor Swift would not have had so many break-ups, and Adele's Hello would be for her flip-open phone. My say has always been, "If life throws lemons at you, defend yourself with 3310's. But in this era of advanced technology, are smartphones really making us smart or stupid by each passing minute? These phones will someday suck the brain out of you. I repeat—the brains out of you.