I’m just glad to see I’m not alone. Tim Ferriss and Paul Graham recently wrote similar pieces about why they don’t own smartphones.

Which category do I fall into? Well, the fact that I’m grateful that you included the definition of “smartphone” should give you the first clue. I’d heard the term, but wasn’t sure what it meant. I promise you I’m not from Little House on The Prairie.

I’ll take it a step further… I don’t own a cell phone. I found someone on Pete Wilson’s blog comments today that also doesn’t own a cell phone, so I have proof that there are at least two of us on this planet… Woohoo!

I’ve sat through too many interrupted conversations with my mother who can’t ignore her phone long enough to breathe, and sat in silence on the drive home while my husband took his work home via his cell phone and Blackberry, both beeping and ringing and buzzing and vibin’ nonstop while he tended to them, and put his marriage on hold.

I don’t even own any Apple products, I can’t see to wrap my brain around the fact the money people spent on them on the first sale day alone could have solved the world’s clean water problem in developing countries. Nothing against Apple, they knew that society would buy into it… My concern is what that says about our fellow earthlings if what they say is true… where our money is, our heart is… iPhones, really? Heartbreaking.

Technology has it’s place… but relationships & people, more so.