Comments on: Do You Obsessively Check Your Smartphone?

By: chaimss

chaimss — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:36:10 +0000

#4- Ner Yisroel doesn’t allow phones in the Beis Medrash building, and I always tell my chavrusas (I’m not in NIRC) that if they can’t keep their phones on silent and away during Seder they should leave them in their rooms. I check more than I should, but I know the limits!

By: usa-tralian

usa-tralian — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:10:59 +0000

BH in Eretz Yisroel Kosher phones are so cheap now, all I pull my phone out for is…..to make or receive calls! I think the most troubling issues amongst the frum community with smartphones are when davening or learning is interrupted in order to check a phone or send a text. I’ve been at numerous Chasunas where a large percentage of the guests are sitting there with a phone in their lap.

By: tina18

tina18 — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:57:57 +0000

The only thing Im addicted to is YWN

By: basket of radishes

basket of radishes — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:26:02 +0000

Good thing I don’t have internet access on my phone!!
But I guess if I lived in NY and was waiting on the subway and other places I’d have that and maybe internet TV too! But why spend the extra money for what you can do at your home computer?

By: charliehall

charliehall — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:16:09 +0000

I habitually check my Blackberry — there is a good reason why it is called by some a “Crack” berry. If it weren’t for Shabat I’d never turn it off.

And there is a YWN ap for Blackberry.