Ummm... Contractors and carpenters do all the time. You know who else does? Anyone planning to use a hammer. So.... if you plan to use your phone.... you would carry it around. In fact, any tool you plan to use you’d need to carry unless you want to have to go get it every time. They literally invented things like tool belts and jackets with tool pockets for people who regularly use tools and carry many- not just one. A phone happens to be a tool that easily and conveniently fits in your pocket. I mean- you probably wouldn’t carry a table saw around- but a level, measuring tape- I mean- pocket screw driver, pocket knife, pocket watch, and pocket calculator all literally have the word pocket in their names man. If you google “ballpeen hammer self defense” you’ll see a bunch of people talking about carrying hammers around. Kanye.... please use a tool very dear to me- the human brain.
That has happened to me before.
edit: more than once.
edit2: Also, I don't play games on my phone anymore... which makes me even more "meh" about carrying it around.
edit3: I also tend to lose it when I carry it around. Fuck that.
I look at it like a laser pointer or pocket knife. People have gotten by without a looong time. People who actually have uses for it can be benefited by having it, and those who don’t can just not worry about one more thing to carry. You can use it for utilitarian reasons, or for amusements and frivolities. You can be responsible and sensible in use, or you can be irresponsible or even dangerous. It is a tool to some, a distraction or amusement to others, and to some a necessity to the way their life is structured. Due to versatility it simply is what you make it. Are you carrying a newsapaper? A library for your thesis? A self help or therapy tool? A game boy? A life saving device? A level, calculator, or day planner? Are you carrying a walkie talkie or pager for work? It’s just a little box full of chips. To some a box holds shoes, to others it is a fort, to others it’s just trash.
I've seen people carry permanent markers around on the off chance they'll get to call someone a whore on a bathroom stall wall somewhere. Or draw a giant penis on literally any surface ever
Gotta be prepared.
Plus, as someone else said, most phones are used for way more than communication. They're used for entertainment, information gathering/verification/falsifying, cameras, music, pedometers, medication reminders, getting into fights with strangers on the Internet. If you could do all that with a hammer, Thor cosplays would become our new currency
edit: more than once.
edit2: Also, I don't play games on my phone anymore... which makes me even more "meh" about carrying it around.
edit3: I also tend to lose it when I carry it around. Fuck that.
Gotta be prepared.
Plus, as someone else said, most phones are used for way more than communication. They're used for entertainment, information gathering/verification/falsifying, cameras, music, pedometers, medication reminders, getting into fights with strangers on the Internet. If you could do all that with a hammer, Thor cosplays would become our new currency