I'm 21 years old, a large part of my generation does not understand what a smartphone is. Infact calling it a phone is ridiculous, you can get a phone without a provider and still make texts and calls; the phone part is a small feature. It is because we were born around this advanced technology and we are accustomed to using it in the way we found ourselves.

A smartphone is really a very good portable computer first, not a phone. It has access to the internet and the millions of possibilities I would like to list some that might of gotten out of sight with people who just carry their "phone" around day to day.

A smartphone knows more languages than any person in the world. It can translate for you (even in real time ) not only that it teach you over months with thousands of learning tools. I bet Translater use to be a much more lucrative job.

A smartphone can play any song, any instrument. Those tiny speakers might not be the best quality, but when you want to hear say Yes-Roundabout. You can Speak the name of the song to your phone and it will find it. There are apps that will find you your song just by listening to a bit of it, some people can even just sing what they remember. Jeeze, it will teach you the tabs, tune your guitar or order one to your house. Remember Record players?

When you want to go somewhere a smartphone will send a signal to space to find your location. Give you multiple routes on how to get where you're going including traffic density and construction. Shit it will get a Yellow car to appear and take you there, nowhere days random people connected through social groups will show up and take you where you need to go.

You don't even have to go to the location with smart phones, googles already driven a car there with a big camera. Just for some reference, Say its 100 years ago and by some random fact I heard of the Taj Mahal. If I wanted to learn any more about the Taj Mahal I'd have to go to the closest library to me (without an automatic route planed out, I only know where it is because of interaction with other humans) and hope that there is a decent amount of information in my location. Today you can google it on your phone and this is one of the first things to pop up. Where is the imagination when you can virtually be there?

A smartphone also has a grasp on your social life. Almost everybody in the developed world has some sort of account online. You can talk with video to your friends around the world, even at the same time. Our species started with cutting down a tree, refining a material to be light, packaging it and using a collective service of vehicles, boats and manpowers to physically bring that piece of information. Could be weeks, could be months, could not even make it there you won't know. Now we have physical Robot eyes in both locations and we get to see what's literally on the other side of the world from us. Speaking of which your phone can find that exact spot on the other side of the earth. Internet is a powerful thing.

Every one of those girls was glued to their phone because it is a large portion of their lives, all their friends can be contacted. A huge database of information the common man could never comprehend is in their hands. Tools from calculators or a level to a audio and face scanner. Of course they're on it all the time, what in the world could compare, The idea of the smartphone is the same as syphy stuff with the "gagdet guy" Cliche where they have a magical do all.

I Onced asked my phone how to cook chicken and it told me the temperature to heat my oven at for if I wanted it dry or juicy. It gave me links to hundreds and thousands of recipes, many with a video of someone cooking it step by step. I have access to a collection of movies that i would die before I could get even close to finishing, shit youtube gets that much in like a day.

Honestly if you put the whole time of the world in perspective its a miracle that someone can get into an emergency and they can use a tiny box that they have on them, and a fully trained team of people will show up to, Fight fighers, help medically, or straight up bring guns and a vehicle with a place to put captured people. 3 numbers for that, we teach it to kids.

We are literally living in a syfy future right now, you can charge you phone battery with a plant, over the last few years they have started to be able to see what a brain is seeing through scanning it. Cars drive themselves(which is required to happen first before flying cars) surgeon can practice operations virtually or do them hundreds of miles away. We can attach circuit boards to other living things like cockroaches and control them. We have printers that can make any shape any form, you can have a gun printed to your location with nothing more than some material powder and a couple megabytes of files.

Honestly I barely even scratched what a smarthpone can do, and the thing is we are still deep in the start. 4 billion people still don't have internet, so many still lack food and water it's an abomination. The middle class gets these computers and they literally make us super powered compared to a human without one. All a time traveler would need to become incredibly huge super power is a smart phone that works. I haven't even really touched what a smart phone can let you do with other technology.

TL DR: The whole cliches with kids and being deep in there phones, Smartphones are computers and computers are said to surpass man. But no one's looking that far ahead. The whole only living about 100 years max thing.

If "selfi-shaming" wasn't a thing before, it will be now. Right along side "sweat-shaming".

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You should probably get help.

But do they even?

If he'd said "They're all just completely transfixed with the technology", that would be true. Consider the phrase "They were all completely transfixed by the hypnogoat".

Malignant narcissism has become the norm.

Why the complexity of a virtual machine and not just a machine? What is the hypervisor in this analogy?

I'm usually on my phone at a baseball game. It's because I don't give a shit about baseball.

that is obviously fake...

no one sat in the two rows behind the girls? occasional awkward quick cut to baseball game, then back to the exact same batch of women. all conveniently making duck face... one gobbling ice cream like in every rom com ever... not to mention how pretty they all are. there would never be a conveniently placed group like this in any game.

you'd be an idiot to think this is legit.

i only hope it is a clip from a tv show or something to have this many upvotes.

I'm so glad that my daughter was raised before smart phones. And that I have nothing but grandsons. The kids got me texting now, but that was only by threats and mocking "the old guy" for being 'old fashioned.'

Bonus points if you watched this video at a baseball game!

Aroooooooo!!!

https://media1.giphy.com/media/3oEdv8nfnNJcyMt0f6/giphy.gif

There are zero men around them though.

Fine by me I'd be a dirty mudshark anyway

Having a dick is irrelevant. I have a dick and I want them and anyone willing to copulate with them euthanized.

I like the video title..."destroyed". Fuck off. Who gives a shit if these girls act silly for a few minutes. The stadium still got their money, right?

Ask them to name 5 players in said game and most can't do it.

I probably couldn't either. I pay attention to all the plays when I watch a game but I don't pay attention to the players names.

The real question is will they be 30 somethings still doing this base and anti-social behavior?

Oh Lawd!!!

Ooooo....... I've met some sex and slutty Jessica's in my time.

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Holy shit lol

That's all fine and good, (great assessment, really), but why are they doing this at a baseball game that (they|someone) paid for them to attend? Fans at baseball games ostensibly attend to watch the game. They didn't notice that something significant happened in the game. At all. So it raises the question, what are they doing there?

Classic. Poor Peralta.

it's sickening how vapid and narcissistic people can be

In my other hand, I have a dick.*

If they got dragged to the event, the least they can do is sit by them. I think it was a sorority event and they just see it as a social thing.

I remember seeing my friend post this. I just cringed and thought to myself...I hope my son doesn't do this. I mean come on! Why take a selfie I'd your friend is right there!?

It drives me crazy because I have paid good money for good seats at ballgames only to have the bitches spend most of the time at the concession stands. I mean, if you didn't want to go, I wouldn't have wasted my money for a ticket on you or at least I would use it with a guy friend.

"White girls" said as if only white girls are narcissistic.

They couldn't give a fuck about the technological aspect

You are partially correct. As long as the tech is the right kind of tech, then it's ok. I'm talking specifically about Apple vs. Android. According to my niece, who is about the age of these girls, either you have an iPhone or you are desperately wanting an iPhone. Only losers & poor people have Android.

I wish I was a white girl. I'd have so many dudes pounding my vajayjay. So many fucking dudes your head would spin

To be fair that is one extremely boring "game".

My main question is why are they there? I know baseball is slow, but when I here the bat hit a ball or hear the crowd, I at least look to see what happened.

This is like fucking Jane Goodall but for college chicks.

They are being "silly" but it really isn't the commentators place to make comments about it

"He hit a single...and nobody noticed."

They're all so pretty.