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If you had to delete all but 3 apps from your smartphone, which ones would you keep?

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(Yay, it's Thursday, which means we made it halfway through the week!)

I'd keep:

1) the Health app that tracks my food, exercise, and sleep

2) the Internet app so I can keep up with the news, weather, and everything else

3) the YouTube app so I can watch short clips during my mental breaks throughout the day

If you had to delete all but 3 apps from your smartphone, which ones would you keep?

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kenster1 profile image
kenster1

none as I still use a Nokia button phone with no apps or internet.

Dolphin14 profile image
Dolphin14 in reply tokenster1

Really? Archaic Kenster :)

❤️🐬

kenster1 profile image
kenster1 in reply toDolphin14

yes had it nearly 10 years does the job text phone so that`s enough for me.

Dolphin14 profile image
Dolphin14 in reply tokenster1

You are good. Any apps on your computer?

kenster1 profile image
kenster1 in reply toDolphin14

betting apps and sky sports.

Sillysausage234 profile image
Sillysausage234 in reply tokenster1

Nunez to score first goal tonight

kenster1 profile image
kenster1 in reply toSillysausage234

he`s in my sky sports dream team so lets hope so.

LadyZen profile image
LadyZen in reply tokenster1

I actually have a smartphone, so I don't have to ever log onto a computer, except for work. For me, computers are synonymous to work and get-me-out-here feelings.

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kenster1 in reply toLadyZen

my Mrs did get me a good phone about 10 year ago had it a matter of days tried wishing my mates girlfriend happy birthday it was more like yltyhbj.m;'jolgd as I just couldn`t get the hang of it so it got boxed up sent back exchanged it for the beloved Nokia brick phone.

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LadyZen in reply tokenster1

Yeah, sometimes new technology isn't necessarily better.

Dolphin14 profile image
Dolphin14

News

Amazon

Insight timer

❤️🐬

LadyZen profile image
LadyZen in reply toDolphin14

Amazon, you must enjoy the shopping convenience.

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Dolphin14 in reply toLadyZen

They seem to be here everyday. It's way too convenient :)

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LadyZen in reply toDolphin14

I use Walmart over Amazon, simply because I like returning at a brick-and-mortar store. But I have an Amazon echo that is really convenient to have at home.

Sillysausage234 profile image
Sillysausage234

Like uncle Kenster ,phone just goes ring ring but I pad would keep ….you tube( funny cat stuff ) …sports ⚽️…plenty more fish 🐟

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Dolphin14 in reply toSillysausage234

SS

There was a time you mentioned on here you didn't have a phone. Then you had a mishap out in public.

My phone rings but I never answer.

Hope you have a good day SS.

❤️🐬

Sillysausage234 profile image
Sillysausage234 in reply toDolphin14

yes had a puncture and no spare no means of emergency contact…..your memory is good ….thanks likewise ….since found out some bright spark thought it a great idea to just hide a can of tyre weld in the boot instead .

Dolphin14 profile image
Dolphin14 in reply toSillysausage234

I have a decent memory not as rock solid as yours. But you were def expressing some anxiety on the forum.

I also remember this 🌂..... oops, sorry

Sillysausage234 profile image
Sillysausage234 in reply toDolphin14

Yes life lesson learned the hard way ….umbrellas snap in high winds …..I was very attached to that umbrella it was expensive had a nice grip ….loved it until it epically failed on me …thanks for the reminder

LadyZen profile image
LadyZen in reply toSillysausage234

How awful. I'm glad you got through that day. Funny thing about life lessons. It took me forever to learn the simplest things.

Sillysausage234 profile image
Sillysausage234 in reply toLadyZen

thanks for your understanding 😄

LadyZen profile image
LadyZen in reply toSillysausage234

Yikes, I got a little too existential there. 😝

Dolphin14 profile image
Dolphin14 in reply toSillysausage234

I'm so sorry about that 🌂. Maybe you can order from Amazon

LadyZen profile image
LadyZen in reply toDolphin14

The app that you would keep on your phone? 😆😂 Nice move to bring things full circle.

Dolphin14 profile image
Dolphin14 in reply toLadyZen

Haha

Isinatra profile image
Isinatra in reply toSillysausage234

What kind of fish. Is that a British term?

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Sillysausage234 in reply toIsinatra

It’s koi carp enthusiasts app …saw gerrerd on it too ,he’s got a caravan as his avatar ….what’s your apps besides avatars

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Isinatra in reply toSillysausage234

Lol…gotcha, SS. 👍🏼 My apps aren’t avatars, but check it out….👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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kenster1 in reply toSillysausage234

I was given a new apple I pad for free by the charity I volunteer with it`s never been used sat in my drawer for 2 years as I don`t have a clue how to work them it came with free 2 year usage and that recently ran out.

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LadyZen in reply tokenster1

I got a free mini ipad many years ago, but it was annoying to lug around. So I gave it to my daughter. I'd rather have my smartphone that's half the size. I never seem to use it like a real phone, like the ones where you put it up to the ear.

Xene profile image
Xene in reply toSillysausage234

😂😂😂

Sillysausage234 profile image
Sillysausage234 in reply toXene

What’s your 3 friend?

Xene profile image
Xene in reply toSillysausage234

Snapchat, plenty more fish, tinder. 😂😂😂

Sillysausage234 profile image
Sillysausage234 in reply toXene

I should really ditch grinder I keep having to swipe gerrerd 😂

Xene profile image
Xene in reply toSillysausage234

Omg! I watched a docu about scammers! I knew they were rife but didn’t realise there were compounds the size of prisons around the world full of them and many are held captive too!

Sillysausage234 profile image
Sillysausage234 in reply toXene

it’s a jungle out there as mr monk would say

Xene profile image
Xene in reply toSillysausage234

Luckily being a technophobe I don’t trust the net. I even had an exchange unknowingly with AI customer services and when the penny dropped I told it “We aren’t the sharpest robot in the drawer are we!” 😂

Sillysausage234 profile image
Sillysausage234 in reply toXene

I must confess to only recently finding out the chat people aren’t actually people too

Xene profile image
Xene in reply toSillysausage234

They can’t cope with sarcasm, not programmed to.🤷‍♀️😂

Sillysausage234 profile image
Sillysausage234 in reply toXene

Alexa told me to wait recently when I was asking to find a song she got quite vexed

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Xene in reply toSillysausage234

Never!😂 Can’t be doing with AI. In fact it made me wonder exactly how much of HU is or isn’t dealt with by AI?🤷‍♀️🤔

Sillysausage234 profile image
Sillysausage234 in reply toXene

no joking…seriously got annoyed and said wait I’m trying to find it 😄

Xene profile image
Xene in reply toSillysausage234

It’s hard to tell when you’re joking or not. I’d probably take a sarcastic rebuke from you as joke. 😂

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Isinatra

I don’t know….that’s a lot to think about. I can’t delete my email app, HU, photos, camera, YouTube, NOAA, local weather, six news apps from different countries, contacts, safari, pbs, fart app and a few more . But there’s a few that I could do without. Like, I don’t need a measurement app or a drawing app or shopping apps or a timer app or the app that lets me feed into a camera in a persons open storage space. That’s boring until a critter walks through . I’m not awake in the middle of the night anyway if a burglar is doing his thing. Sorry, for my meandering, sometimes I get carried away. Lol

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Sillysausage234 in reply toIsinatra

I had a compass one but since my surname’s not Columbus I deleted it

Isinatra profile image
Isinatra in reply toSillysausage234

😂😂 I wanted to say I’m lost…get it? I’m lost? I’m a goober today.

Sillysausage234 profile image
Sillysausage234 in reply toIsinatra

timer apps are good reminders that your dinners burning in the oven…..or it’s time to wake up and have more benzos

Isinatra profile image
Isinatra in reply toSillysausage234

I don’t cook. The only timer I covet is the microwave and I’m on auto pilot for my meds.

I wrote an answer hours ago, but I forgot to click reply. Maybe I need the timer for that. Tick tick tick click

Sillysausage234 profile image
Sillysausage234 in reply toIsinatra

I burned my dinner after all that the timer went off while I was haggling over my broadband contract

Isinatra profile image
Isinatra in reply toSillysausage234

You can’t trust timers or contracts. Use your honed instincts and nose. I trust smoke alarms. They’re spot on. 😁

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Sillysausage234 in reply toIsinatra

Salmon with pine nut cinders

Isinatra profile image
Isinatra in reply toSillysausage234

Yum 🙄

LadyZen profile image
LadyZen in reply toSillysausage234

My service made me upgrade to keep from raising my rates. Such a pain in the ass. I had to get a new router, extender, longer ethernet cord, reset all my devices. Was on text with them for 2 hours until they botched the whole discussion by transferring me to someone else. I was begging them to just give me a freaking call, that I just couldn't text everything I went through for another 2 hours. They wouldn't call until I finally had it and tried to find a live person.

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Sillysausage234 in reply toLadyZen

I recently took out a new contract,17 days ago ….there’s another internet company rolled up yesterday saying they’re pulling in super duper fast broadband into my place November 5 …..so I called the company I’m with ( crappy slow connection) …they said £500 to break contact a it’s been 16 days and it’s a 14 day cool off period….timer goes off for dinner…..ok I said but do your best find me a loophole….anyway same as you he said I can upgrade your package today send out more plug in tech stuff and then you get a 14 day cool off ( wink wink 😉) ….so smelling burning cinders I said ok …..so I’m getting more equipment,for a small £12 postage fee pay an extra £10 …then cancel next week …they said I can cool off but keep it for up to 3 months …dinner is black and extra crisp by this point.

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LadyZen in reply toSillysausage234

When I finally had it with the new equipment, I asked them to just release me from the new contract, and they said I'd have to pay for the router and extender. I was like, wtf. Nothing burning on my stove, but I was hot as hell. But everything's working now. I just have a 50 foot ethernet cable running along the molding from one end of the house to the other. Hopefully, your situation is all squared away.

LadyZen profile image
LadyZen in reply toIsinatra

Your phone sounds like mine. I have tons of apps too.

Isinatra profile image
Isinatra in reply toLadyZen

They just seem to accumulate over time. Have to cull through them once in a while. I don’t like clutter.

LadyZen profile image
LadyZen in reply toIsinatra

I'm a minimalist. Clutter is chaotic and stressful.

Isinatra profile image
Isinatra in reply toLadyZen

Me, toooooo. Less stuff to dust, too.

Adlon57 profile image
Adlon57 in reply toIsinatra

There must be a "heaven" of that stuff somewhere, somebody could make serious money out of that redundant stock🤔🤑😉

Isinatra profile image
Isinatra in reply toAdlon57

Yard sale…$$$$$

Adlon57 profile image
Adlon57 in reply toIsinatra

With this weather?💦😱

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Adlon57

Get rid of Smartphones😝😝😝, just

1/call and text

2/good camera

3/good battery life

who needs the apps and internet, just get a small laptop instead, don't swish your phone in the middle of the street,[or losing or breaking them?] inane conversation, useless information stuffed down your 'earhole', if you want that sort of💩, do it at home, you can get the price of vegetables, etc, the sex life of your new neighbour and a bit more privately via your call and text phone or your wee laptop [at home] IF you REALLY NEED it🙄, plus it works out cheaper?😤🤭 [plus you don't have to keep upgrading the bl###y things {expensive🤑}]

LadyZen profile image
LadyZen in reply toAdlon57

Sounds like you're into photography.

Adlon57 profile image
Adlon57 in reply toLadyZen

Nope! just a retired prospective writer, I'll admit pictures are not too good via call and text senior mobile, I do have a Olympus VH-210 although battery run out on that😒

LadyZen profile image
LadyZen in reply toAdlon57

I'm actually a prospective writer myself, not retired though.

Adlon57 profile image
Adlon57 in reply toLadyZen

Very 'prospective' writer after 14 years🙄😒

Isinatra profile image
Isinatra in reply toAdlon57

The site will be closed down for maintenance on Halloween. There’s a banner across the top of the page (not here, just when you click on A&D. ) It starts early but don’t know when it will be done. Blimey…they could have waited til Grilled Cheese Day. 🦇🎃👻👽🤷‍♀️

Adlon57 profile image
Adlon57 in reply toIsinatra

Thanks Isinatra I could do with some full time maintenance myself at present, carryout a coming😋

Isinatra profile image
Isinatra in reply toAdlon57

Did you use an app for your order?

Adlon57 profile image
Adlon57 in reply toIsinatra

Just a phone, had to give up halfway through, could not understand each other😵😤

Adlon57 profile image
Adlon57 in reply toAdlon57

Won't be using that carryout again, actually spelling out order, they rang back, could not find misunderstood 'address! Eventually arrived🤮🤮🤮

Isinatra profile image
Isinatra in reply toAdlon57

Some food apps are not user friendly, either. You’re lucky, somebody actually answered the phone. Hope the food was good?

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Adlon57 in reply toIsinatra

🙄🤮🤮🤮

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Isinatra in reply toAdlon57

Whoops!😁

LadyZen profile image
LadyZen

That's interesting. You just made me realize my three apps are inwardly driven, stuff to fill up the empty spaces in my day. Your apps are about communication.

LadyZen profile image
LadyZen

I don't like talking on the phone either. I'm finding its a pretty common quirk. It creates a lot of anxiety for me. I think it's because a phone call always comes with the risk of it being bad news.

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LadyZen

I feel the same way, even though I can fill up silence, if needed. I just feel like I'm just talking about a lot of nonsense and expended energy that I need to put towards other things. Like resting 😁.

GlowingDarkly profile image
GlowingDarkly

Three is tough but if push came to shove:

- Audiable

- Internet Browser

- Discord (social media/communication app - how I mainly communicate with my friends)

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LadyZen in reply toGlowingDarkly

I used Discord occasionally too. The only thing I struggle with when it comes to that is I'm usually the oldest person.👵

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GlowingDarkly in reply toLadyZen

Yeah the generational gap is noticable, especially within certain servers/communities where there are a lot of GenZ’ers and younger - where you can easily feel out of sync. But, perhaps I am merely biased, millennials by and large often get excited to have anyone “older” around in that space!

But if you ever need an extra pair of eyes or ears on something that goes on in Discord, feel free to shoot me a PM and I am happy be a sounding board!

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LadyZen in reply toGlowingDarkly

I'm relieved when there are millennials. I'm Gen X, and once is a blue moon, I do run into a few. 👾

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GlowingDarkly in reply toLadyZen

My older brother and I have a 15 year gap between us, so he is also a mighty Gen X’er and through his lens, your outlook on Discord is very relatable, he goes through much of the same thing.

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LadyZen in reply toGlowingDarkly

That's funny. My brother is a millennial. He's the one that introduced me to social media when he was in high school. It was some platform called Xanga. I thought it was the weirdest thing. I actually only opened up an account to stay connected with him because he was more like a son than a brother from being so far apart in age. Even now, I only social media to check on him.

Midori profile image
Midori

That's an easy one for me. My Smartphone is not online. I only use it for calls, texts and Photographs!

Everything else goes on my desktop pc!

I just refuse to be a slave to my phone!

Cheers, Midori

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LadyZen in reply toMidori

I feel that way about my computer. I spend 10 hours a day working on my computer, I don't go near one when I'm off.

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