iANXIETY…If the famous director Alfred Hitchcock was still available to bring scripts to the screen he might be able to make us both laugh and scream directing a film where an iphone is the villain. I don’t have one and probably won’t go out of my way to get one either. I have a “smart phone” or so they tell me. I wouldn’t know. It hasn’t cooked me dinner yet or even opened a bottle of beer. I’m not too sure how it got the “smart” handle but then again I don’t give a hoot. I call people with it and on rare occasions even send a text message. Other than that it’s pretty much useless. I probably am not alone in my amazement of the numbers of people I see wandering about life with their face glued to the tiny screen of their phone. What the f#$% are they doing on the stupid thing that is so important? They walk into other people and step into traffic. They sit at tables in restaurants and stare into the stupid phone instead of actually talking to the other people at the table. I could see it if they were fighting international terrorism on the thing or even trading stocks for profit but Twitter? Facebook? Instagram? Hitchcock could put a real twist on it like in “Dial M for Murder”. “Tweet the Trauma”, “Facebook for the Fatal Fall”, “Blog of Blood”. You’d think the things could do more than flash pictures and words on that glowing little screen. Maybe if it was set on vibrate…
…I don’t even have an operating cell phone *laugh*
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I was waiting to meet up with a friend so had some time for people watching. It occurred to me that technology is a great way to claim private space in a rapidly shrinking world… Especially if your world is set in a city of strangers. People use their devices as shields. It used to be magazines, newspapers and books that kept the strangers at bay. And that lazer gaze that dared anyone to smile or say hello. Same insecurities, different defenses?
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Hilarious account 🙂 I don’t even have a smart phone – so have no chance of it cooking me dinner!
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And what’s an “app”? I think it is some electronic way of doing something that probably doesn’t really need doing. I have to admit I did download the Kindle app to my macbook. Now I can buy my own books when they come out. Boost sales and go even broker (more broke, Brokest?) ha!
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hahaha 🙂
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Cooking dinner isn’t smart, it’s laborious. Whereas the phone getting you to cook dinner… Now that’s smart.
A Hitchcockian phone would of course always appear in it’s own videos.
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Ahh, Hitchcock would love the iTHINGY receiving messages of threats and/or terror and the handsome hero and the Grace Kelly look a like heroine trying desparately to comply with the bizarre messages while trying to figure out who or worse, WHAT, is sending them. BOWAHAHAHA!
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Man staring out of the rear window with binoculars. Shouting ‘Get outta the app (artment) Grace.’
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