10 Lamest Ways People Use Their Smartphones

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Smartphones serve wonderful purposes from making a video call to assessing your Social media account. But at times people use this wonderful innovation for dumb things. Here are 10 such things from Yahoo News

#10 Take and share pictures of food

Taking and sharing food pictures is one of the silly things that people often do with their Smartphones. People post photos in Facebook and other Social media with wonderful captions like “Yummy cake made by me”, “had a great party tonight”. It’s at this instance we should think that whether the so called amazing gadget Smartphone is being used in the right way. People rather than enjoying their food simply waste time by clicking pics and sharing with the friends which can cause annoyance. Why shouldn’t they stop this? Yet another question left unanswered.

#9 Texting to settle arguments or misunderstandings

Can emotions be expressed in words? Today people usually indulge in texting to clear any dispute or misunderstandings with their loved ones. But does that actually work, with the situation seeking quick and often elaborate explanations. Why don’t they simply use some awesome possibilities the Smartphones offer to the users, like free video calls, be it on Skype or Google Hangout or other similar apps.xsz

8 Smartphones used in coldplay concerts replacing lighters

These days Smartphones are degraded to such a way that they are used in place of lighters. Smartphones apps like Zippo lighter that gives an actual lightereffect are being used by most of the people to assist them to get through dark places. This wonderful app starts its work with a simple flick of your wrist and can be turned off easily with your thumb. No risk of burns, use this app to find your dear ones in a dark theatre hall. But is this the right way to use your amazing gadget? What’s the harm in using a torch app instead? That turns camera flash into torch.

#7 Taking Selfies

People taking their self portraits have become a fad today. Sometimes you can see your friend’s self pics in crazy deck poses. Selfpic literally kills! Crazy dudes eagerly take their selfies infront of mall or shopping centeres.What kind pleasure they derive? May be all these selfies, will be a treasure for the one who have taken it ,but for others?

#6 Using Phone as a boombox:

Smartphones often irritate people with its loud speakers .Phones like HTC comes with dual speakers which make yelling sound in the mid of cafes and bars. You may be a lover of loud or rocking sounds but all are not, music for you could be noise for others

#5 Lacking interest in social get togethers and more indulged in virtual connections

The craziness to phones have gone beyond the limits that people always wants to stare on these gadgets. Be it a marriage function or get together, you can see people very much involved in their Smart phones. Rather than personal communication people seems to be interested in virtual connections. Does texting or making calls via phone actually satisfy your social needs? The so called intelligent beings are still not ready to break the walls of virtual world.

#4 Shooting videos in portrait mode

Today Smartphones come with wide display screen, but do the people make use of this feature? People shoot in their Smartphones vertically instead of using it horizontally. This will lead to ambiguous videos leaving most part of Smartphone’s video screen blank. Why can’t the people use these amazing gadgets in a proper way? Today most of the Smart phones are embedded with excellent quality camera offering wonderful video experience. Be smart enough to handle Smartphones smartly.

#3Continous usage of Phone invites dangers

Some people consider Smartphone as an icon of luxury and take the risk of attending the calls when they are in a busy road. Talking over phone can invite road accidents as well.

#2 Keeping the notification tone in full volume

There are some hipsters who always keep their notification tone to the fullest. How do you feel when somebody’s phone rings out of funny ringtone like the siren or a some crazy pop number when you are in a meeting? You could get annoyed. It would be better if the people use the cool option of putting the smartphone in silent or only vibration mode.

#1 use of Apple Maps

If you are new in using Smartphone apps to find the ways, then apple maps shouldn’t be your first choice. They create a lot of inaccuracies as compared to other versions like Google maps and Waze. Apple maps can divert you, for example example if you want to trace a restaurant at a particular place, this crazy app can mislead you by showing the restaurant with same name but located at different spot. This app also cannot trace out where you are, thus it misguides you rather than assisting.