{"id":1877,"date":"2014-09-15T15:20:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T15:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2015-01-19T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T15:08:10","slug":"12-signs-youre-dating-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/09\/15\/12-signs-youre-dating-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"12 signs you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dating your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phones have made our lives better. We can catch up with our friends whenever we want. We can fight boredom with an array of apps and games. We can even take funny little pictures of ourselves while no-one\u2019s watching.<\/p>\n

But has our relationship with our beepy little plastic friends gone too far? Are things getting a little bit…romantic?<\/p>\n

Here are 12 signs you\u2019re dating your phone.<\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You go to bed with it every night<\/h4>\n

It lives under your pillow, where you can be sure no-one will snatch it away from you and that it won\u2019t sneak off for midnight liaisons with other smartphone addicts.<\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You\u2019re inconsolable if you leave it at home<\/h4>\n

\"sad-zach\"<\/a><\/p>\n

How are you supposed to live without your phone pestering you when someone likes that picture you took of breakfast this morning?<\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You love it despite its flaws<\/h4>\n

\"Cracked<\/a><\/p>\n

You cracked your screen over a year ago but you still haven\u2019t got it fixed. Once you get past it, it\u2019s still the same phone you fell in love with…erm, signed a contract for. The last one, not the love thing.<\/p>\n

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4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You\u2019ve given it a pet name<\/h4>\n

You might think it\u2019s a bit of innocent fun to call your phone \u201d\u02dcSammy Samsung\u2019, but your PDA is creeping everyone else out. Get a room!<\/p>\n

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5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You buy it a new outfit every couple of months<\/h4>\n

\"Love<\/a><\/p>\n

Ooh, wouldn\u2019t it look cute in a nice little red number? You score extra weird points if you\u2019ve bought it a special case for a specific event.<\/p>\n

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6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You can hear its voice, even if it isn\u2019t speaking<\/h4>\n

You feel a slight tingle in your pocket, that familiar warm vibration of your phone telling you something has happened. But wait…there\u2019s no notifications on your phone. Ah, that\u2019d be the longing kicking in. It\u2019s true love!<\/p>\n

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7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You take it to dinner and to the pub…<\/h4>\n

…so you can steal a few fleeting moments with it while your horrible distracting friends go to the toilet. Phones never have to go to the toilet. They\u2019ll never let you down, or break up with you…<\/p>\n

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8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You never turn it off willingly<\/h4>\n

\"Slide<\/a><\/p>\n

Because that would be like knocking a loved one unconscious, wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

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9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You like to touch it a lot<\/h4>\n

Even if you aren\u2019t actually reading anything on your phone, you still like to idly scroll through Facebook and Twitter with a gentle loving stroke across the screen.<\/p>\n

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10.\u00a0 You\u2019ve bought one of these so you can take romantic baths and showers together<\/h4>\n

\"iphone-waterproof\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Okay, that\u2019s a bit weird…<\/p>\n

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11.\u00a0 You can think of at least 2 friends you\u2019d sacrifice before it<\/h4>\n

Well, you can\u2019t play Candy Crush<\/i> or upload Instagram photos on Dave or Maria, can you?<\/p>\n

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12.\u00a0 You complain about it to your friends, but you don\u2019t know what you\u2019d do without it<\/h4>\n

The surest sign of true love. Are those wedding bells we hear chiming?<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve come to the sudden realisation you\u2019re in a relationship with a piece of plastic (albeit a clever one), do the smart thing and sell it with musicMagpie<\/a>. It\u2019ll hurt at first, but you\u2019ll realise you made the right decision in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phones have made our lives better. We can catch up with our friends whenever we want. We can fight boredom with an array of apps and games. We can even take funny little pictures of ourselves while no-one\u2019s watching. But has our relationship with our beepy little plastic friends gone …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3395,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions\/3395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}