“Of all the technologies that have gone extinct in your lifetime, which one do you miss the most?”

Hands down, the ‘dumb’ phone. Or at least the QWERTY keyboard on phones.

All I want is an email notification system. I don’t want Facebook at my finger tips. I don’t want a $400 camera in my pocket. I don’t want a “GPS Please Stalk Me” device.

I hardly even want to be able to call or text with it. Telling the time is sort of nice. I like being able to set alarms. I also like having my music and running apps.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m totally hooked into the ‘smart’ phone culture, just like everyone else. How will I live without Runkeeper? Or Omnifocus to tell me what I should be doing?

But seriously. I don’t want a Swiss Army phone.

And while I’m ranting about this. Can I please have the tactile QWERTY keyboard back instead of the BS touch screen which can never get my messages right in the first place which is really the main reason I hate smart phones?

If they’re so smart then why can’t they type right? Why is it the biggest pain in the ass to try to search for something online through my phone because I spend over half the time trying to type out what I’m searching for? Or correcting my text message? It would be faster to just call than to fight with the screen. Except oh yeah… I’m introverted and I would rather stab my eyes out than talk to people most of the time.

Maybe not that extreme… but you get the idea.

You would think with technology being the top priority of today that the phones wouldn’t suck so much. You would also think that since everything is on the Internet that access to it would be free. Like how breathing air is.

But it’s not, which is lame. And touch screens still don’t make the cut in my book, so smart phones are lame, too. All because it’s easier for me to type at a keyboard than on my phone.

Bring back the QWERTY keyboard to phones! Down with touch screen!