Out here in the Bay Area, heart of all that is blinky lights and screens, I find that my love of the technology I have to build out and maintain has waned over the years. After staring at three screens and an iPhone all day, and often a laptop or iPad at night, the idea of strapping another screen to my wrist has lost its appeal over time. Any other guys or gals out there reducing the number of screens in their lives, and donning a quality timepiece on their wrist?

 

I'm a bit in the same boat, had several smart watches like the Apple Watch and Samsung Gear S3, which were fine but the one thing I used them for was to tell the time. So I sold them all and decided it was time to get an automatic Omega. I find myself avoiding screens as much as possible now. The only smart watch I use is when golfing - Garmin S10.

 

See! They can be taught!

get yourself a 30T2, turn off all the junk and learn to live again!

a vintage ride also helps.

 

Fully, but, problem with this approach : once you don a quality mechanical timepiece, and move maybe to vintage, then suddenly at some point you realize you start to hunt these things, at which point, all the screens in your life become active again ... see where I'm going with this?

 

I have friends who have switched back to flip phones and just disconnected. I still love and value the utility of my I Phone + and will still upgrade. I have three I Pod Classics I use for music. I want but will probably never buy an I Pad. Never will own a smart watch. I'm making a conscious decision to wean myself off of addiction to the 24hour news cycle and social media. I'm trying to coach my 24 year old son that he wastes too much time on his phone. I do think he's starting to listen.

 

I am exactly in the same boat. The is no single way I get another screen on my wrist... the iPhone has already way too much of my eyetime, mostly because of Watch hunting and OF

 

switch off, yeah, um... hold on, lemme Google that....

 

Thanks to OF, I spend a bit of my 'disconnect from tech' time on the computer...

 

As a tech veteran with decades of computer experience, I've never even considered a smartwatch. Already way too many screens in my life. I'd like to believe that smartwatches will be a passing fad, I don't see a lot of wearers who actually use and benefit from the tech features regularly.

 

Oh man, glad I'm not the only one around here! I made the conscious decision last year to try and simplify my life. I've wanted an Omega since I was 13, and so for father's day/our anniversary my wife bought me a pre-owned Speedmaster 3222.80. I had no problem putting the Apple Watch away, and I never want to take this thing off of my wrist. Granted, my love for mechanical has been rekindled, and I do find myself eyeballing all the cool vintage models out there, but it's not near as distracting as the constant dings and haptics making me feel like work is some omnipresent demon I can't escape. Disconnecting is good. Viva la revolution! Lol.

 

I'm with you there. Too many screen distractions and I force myself not to become too 'ADD' with it all.

 

I blame social media for a lot of our addiction to our tech. Phones in particular. We have raised an entire generation that knows nothing beyond what's posted on social media and visible on their iPhone screens. Like zombies, kids walk down the street with their eyes glued to their phones. Ask them for an opinion and they have to check social media before they can respond. Social media was full of promise, but like so many other things it's been perverted into a disease. A virus.

 

Didn't the Unabomber have a manifesto about technology being evil?

 

Alright, so sans smartwatch, what's on your wrist?

 

only thing dumber than wearing an iwatch or google watch or whatever is a squirrel wearing a watch

 

Hahahahaha.

 

Sure, but before that people took what was presented in the newspaper and TV news as gospel, and used that to 'form' their opinions/ positions. And these days we are all aware at how biased/ skewed those sources happen to be. (Heck, where I come from the Washington Post is the paper, so take that for what it is worth. I still subscribe to it, but only to read the local news, comics and sports. I refuse to read anything in the International;/ National news section other then the whole frickin' 2 pages of the business section.

 

My wife teaches 1st grade. Students do a lot of work on iPads and air drop them to her, they don’t even walk up to the desk. No more cursive writing instruction in the curriculum either. Pretty crazy.

 

Democrats cry about Putin having some sloppy hackers get the Podesta's of the world get suckered into email scam, yet Google or Facebook sells the info of millions and nobody says shit.

Social media stiiiiinnnnnkkkkkkksssssss. It is an illness.

 

Quite ironic, don’t you think, that this rant was done using ... ...social media?