I do not love my smartphone. I do not walk into walls, people, or heavy traffic because my eyes are glued to it. Too many people engage with their phones way too much instead of being engaged with others around them.
Banishing smartphones from family dinner is a must. Drivers distracted while looking at their smartphones are a serious public safety issue – every one of them should be ticketed!
No, I do not love my smartphone – but I do really like it.
I like my smartphone, first and foremost, because of podcasts. Unfamiliar with podcasts? I encourage critics of smartphones to suspend their disbelief momentarily and open themselves to the potential of podcasts.
I, too, was ignorant of podcasts until Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 (yes, I actually remember the exact date), when I attended a professional development session at my former college in Kentucky. Since that day, I have listened to an average of 200-plus hours of podcasts annually, mostly while…
