Do you turn your cell phone off at bedtime?

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  • jmohme

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    my phone is nowhere near me at bedtime and my hearing is not great, so on, or off, it can ring all it wants. I will never wake up.

    On the remote chance that I did hear it, it would probably get tossed in the garbage. I like my sleep, and hate the damned phone anyway.
     

    Mohawk600

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    Sadly........there is a trade-off for the convenience that technology offers.......we can only mitigate it the best ways possible.

    If you don't want to be tracked.......leave the phone at home and ride a bike or walk. Then you only have to dodge the bazillion cameras that are everywhere
     

    Dermako

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    I have the alerts turned off but have to leave mine on 24/7.
    My mother and wife’s mother both have serious medical issues so we to be on call if you will.
     

    OutlawStar

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    I think I discovered last year you can turn off the basic amber and silver alerts, but Texas tied 'officer down' blue alerts with the urgent weather alerts like flooding and tornados. Very, very stupid on their behalf. It just encourages people to turn off ALL alerts including weather which can be very dangerous. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with a blue alert at 3am when it was a cop shot in Houston, about 6 hours away. It didn't wake me up however because of that do not disturb.

    Like others, I have a "do not disturb" bedtime setting from I think 11:30 to 7am or something. No close family where I would be able to immediately help, but I should look into a way to always allow the lady friend's texts and calls.
     

    Shady

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    I think I discovered last year you can turn off the basic amber and silver alerts, but Texas tied 'officer down' blue alerts with the urgent weather alerts like flooding and tornados. Very, very stupid on their behalf. It just encourages people to turn off ALL alerts including weather which can be very dangerous. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with a blue alert at 3am when it was a cop shot in Houston, about 6 hours away. It didn't wake me up however because of that do not disturb.

    Like others, I have a "do not disturb" bedtime setting from I think 11:30 to 7am or something. No close family where I would be able to immediately help, but I should look into a way to always allow the lady friend's texts and calls.


    but then you cant get the fun midnight calls about your family member being stuck in a Mexico jail and you need to send out $2,000 in giftcards or they will be sent to general population.
     
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