- Unless you do all of the things on this list, too?
What do you think about people and their phones? Do you have a phone packed full of photos and screenshots?
- Open their phone without knowing why.
- Close it.
- Open it again.
- Check the same app they’ve checked 30 seconds ago.
- Refresh the feed hoping something new magically appeared.
- Scroll past something and immediately scroll back.
- Screenshot something instead of saving it.
- Never look at the screenshot again.
- Have 8,000 photos.
- Have 900 screenshots. Does this sound like people and their phones to you?
- Have screenshots of screenshots.
- Screenshot directions instead of saving the address.
- Screenshot a recipe and never make it.
- Screenshot a funny conversation.
- Screenshot something they think they’ll need later.
- Forget why they took the screenshot.
- Search their camera roll for something they remember photographing.
- Scroll through 400 unrelated photos while looking for it.
- Find the picture and then continue scrolling.
- Look through old photos for nostalgia.
- Accidentally find something embarrassing from five years ago.
- Zoom into their own face.
- Find a flaw nobody else would notice.
- Stare at it.
- Take another selfie.
- Delete it.
- Take another one.
- Delete that one too.
- Use the front camera as a mirror. Does this sound like people and their phones to you?
- Accidentally open the front camera and experience immediate psychological damage.
- Check their reflection before answering the phone.
- Check their reflection before sending a selfie.
- Adjust their hair after seeing themselves on camera.
- Record a video and immediately watch it back.
- Hate the sound of their own voice.
- Record the same voice note four times.
- Delete the voice note because it sounded weird.
- Type a text.
- Delete it.
- Type it again.
- Add “haha.”
- Remove “haha.”
- Add an emoji.
- Remove the emoji.
- Send it.
- Immediately regret it.
- Put the phone face down.
- Flip it over 12 seconds later. Does this sound like people and their phones to you?
- Check whether someone has read a message.
- Check whether they’re typing.
- Watch the typing bubble disappear.
- Wonder what they were going to say.
- Read a message from the notification screen.
- Decide you’ll answer later.
- Never answer.
- Mentally answer the message.
- Assume that counts as replying.
- Forget completely.
- Search your own texts for something you remember saying.
- Search someone’s name in your messages.
- Scroll through old conversations.
- Read something from years ago.
- Wonder why you said that.
- Wonder why they said that.
- Notice how differently you texted back then.
- Open an email.
- Read it.
- Decide you’ll respond later. Does this sound like people and their phones to you?
- Leave it unread mentally even though it’s technically read.
- Star something you’ll never return to.
- Have 47 browser tabs open.
- Refuse to close them because you “need” them.
- Forget what 40 of them are.
- Open Google to search one thing.
- End up reading about something completely unrelated.
- Watch one video.
- Watch another.
- Suddenly it’s an hour later.
- Go to social media to check one notification.
- Scroll for 40 minutes.
- Exit the app.
- Immediately reopen it.
- Check notifications while already holding the phone.
- Check the weather and forget the temperature.
- Check the weather again five minutes later.
- Check package tracking repeatedly.
- Watch the delivery map like a live sporting event.
- Hear a truck outside and check the window.
- Decide the truck is definitely not yours.
- Check anyway.
- Turn the volume up to hear something.
- Turn it down because the next video is suddenly screaming.
- Put headphones in.
- Forget they’re connected.
- Start playing something out loud.
- Panic. Does this sound like people and their phones to you?
- Search for your phone while holding it.
- Use your phone flashlight to find your phone.
- Put your phone somewhere “safe.”
- Forget where that safe place was.
- Check every room.
- Find it exactly where you left it.
- Wonder how you didn’t see it.
- Immediately put it somewhere else.
- Repeat the entire process tomorrow.
What do you think about people and their phones? Tell us everything you do yourself in the comments.