My Saturday (04/30/22)
Woke up with my Cell Phone Alarm
1. Checked in my Coin App, Atlas Earth App,
2. Check My M & T bank App, Stash App, Robinhood App, Coinbase App, Gemini App, and Acorns App.
3. My wife who is in Nigeria visiting her Aunt video calls me on Whatsapp
4. I check my News on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Yahoo.com
5. My Brigit App alerts me that even though there is money in my M & T account, I better put more in because it considers its balance too low.
6. Coinbase alerts me that they have a new coin, which I buy.
7. I drive to the bank to make a deposit, but I order breakfast for the kids on my Burger King App, and pay for it with my Fuze App.
8. I stop by Speedway and get gas where I type in my Phone number to get points on that purchase. While, Driving I check in on my Coin App at each stop racking up points, While my Miles App earns me different kinds of Points.
9. My mother (who I live with, along with my 2 college aged Daughters) tells me she needs gas for her car and we need cheese
10. I go to 7-11 to get her gas, scan the 7-11 app for their points, and then go to Lidls to buy cheese and scan the Lidl's App.
11. I take a picture of my receipt for my Swagbucks and my mother notices this and tells me to get Fetch and Ibotta. She texts me her referrals and she gets points for me signing up
12. I play games on Just Play making money (80 cents so far) and Ibotta alerts me that if I buy Ice cream at Target it will give me 75 cents back
13. I transfer my 80-cent take from my Game playing to Paypal
14. I filed a complaint with Etsy because a QR code patch I ordered to put on my Jacket to direct to one of my books on Amazon doesn't work.
15. Klarna, which used to Pay Etsy, emails me that Etsy credited me before Etsy tells me.
16. I take my Daughter to work while listening to my Tidal App, which Stash told me was paid for, along with my HBO service.
17. After I drop off my Daughter, I fulfill my Ibotta quest using the self-service checkout, typing in my phone number to get cash back from Target's Circle Club, and using Fuze again to pay to get 1% back from them. Plus the 75 cents for scanning the receipt to Ibotta.
18. I went to CVS to pick up a Prescription, that I ordered through their app, and they texted me it was ready for pickup.
19. Facebook alerts me when I get back home that a player from Lindenhurst High School (I graduated in 1990) was selected in the NFL draft to play for the Jets.
20. I play cashyy another app to make another dollar until it is time to pick up my daughter from work.
21. When I am in Bed I tell Alexa to turn off the lights in my room.
I feel I am an extreme case for interacting with my phone because I download everything. My body, thanks to Medtronic, has Wi-FI as well. 5 years ago I had a Defibrillator put in me which broadcasts my heart condition and my blood pressure to my cardiologist 24/7.
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A day in a life with a cell phone
Non-Fictionon Saturday, April 30, 2022, I used my cell phone a lot, significantly a lot. I still do but the amount of interaction I had with it that day struck me as extreme so I wrote down all the times I used the cell and the apps I used and wound up with 2...
