Pokemon Go is evil

[B2G]

Don't believe me? Check your data usage.

There are gonna be millions of shocked parents come August.

[katsy]

1. I knew personal hotspot would come in handy!!!!

Problem is now my kids take my ipad out with them for wifi and im SOL 😖

[Glassunion]

2. Not to mention the car/bike/walking accidents

Watch where you're going people, and FFS don't do it while driving.

[tonyt53]

3. People need to put down their damned phones and get a life.

[white_wolf]

5. You're right!

How dare people do something they enjoy that encourages them to go outside and possibly meet new people! They should "get a life" whatever the fuck that means.

[LeftyMom]

8. Says the person grousing about other people's hobbies on a message board.

Maybe cranky message board users should push back from the keyboard and go take a walk? Maybe catch some pokemon?

[Quackers]

17. Lol

[pinboy3niner]

20. Bazinga!

[Cal Carpenter]

16. As someone who works at a "PokeStop",

(through no efforts of our own) I've learned that this game is forcing people out of their bubbles and into the real world, and it often leads to real face to face interaction. And definitely exercise.

Generally I agree with your sentiment (even in terms of myself who has wasted many an hour playing sudoku on my phone), but this game is a little different.

[LeftyMom]

4. There are really cheap ($30/mo) plans with unlimited data and texting but limited voice minutes.

Since young people seem to think having a voice conversation is the worst thing that ever happened to them, they're an awesome deal and I highly recommend them.

We did the math and that was cheaper for us than going with a family plan and a shared bucket of data.

[white_wolf]

7. Speaking as one of those young people I'm guilty as charged.

I enjoy talking face to face, but being on the phone just irritates me. I have to drop everything I'm doing.

[B2G]

10. Ditto.

Have never been a phone person. Bores me to tears. I basically didn't answer my phone before they invented the Bluetooth. Lol.

[DetlefK]

19. The italian word you are looking for is "dito". "Ditto" is a Pokemon.

[csziggy]

21. Uh, no. Ditto has been a word co-opted into English for a very long time

ditto
[dit-oh]

noun, plural dittos.
1. the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Symbol: ?. Abbreviation: do.
Compare ditto mark.
2. another of the same.
3. Informal. a duplicate; copy.

adverb
4. as already stated; likewise.

verb (used with object), dittoed, dittoing.
5. to make a copy of, using a Ditto machine.
6. to duplicate or repeat the action or statement of (another person).
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/ditto

[LeftyMom]

12. I'm 35 and I'm guilty too.

Unless there's a big long thing I'd rather just get a text.

[Ilsa]

11. I have AT&T. They say "unlimited data" but

when I asked about it, they were going to charge us $180.00 for 3 smartphones. No thanks.

[LeftyMom]

13. We got our plan through T-Mobile.

They don't really publicize it, I believe it's a package they offer to match some bargain basement carrier, so you have to know about it to ask.

[Ilsa]

14. TMobile doesn't seem to work as well for coverage in my area. nt

[msongs]

6. is that the one where people can get robbed at gunpoint?

[LostOne4Ever]

9. That bill is gonna make Pikachu cry!

[Oneironaut]

15. Verizon hits parents with massive data charge. It's super effective!

Parents fainted!

[demmiblue]

18. Couple playing 'Pokemon Go' in Royal Oak finds house fire, saves dog

A 10-year-old dog's life was saved Wednesday night in Royal Oak when a couple hunting Pokemon saw flames and called 911.

"They saved my house. They sure did," Randall Bishop, 40, said. "This whole 'Pokemon' thing is obviously a positive, in our aspect."

'Pokemon Go' an augmented-reality smartphone game, has drawn heat in some cities over trespassing and safety concerns. But at about 8 p.m. Wednesday, it led Patrick Awdish, 24, and his fiancee Katelyn Zack, 21, to Bishop's neighborhood at Cooper and Grandview.

"We kind of walked by a house, and we thought it was a bonfire," Awdish said. He said they looked more closely and saw fire was on the house. "You could see the flames from the street."

They called 911, and firefighters quickly arrived and extinguished the fire with garden and fire hoses. Stanley, a flat-coated retriever, was alone inside the house. Royal Oak Fire Chief Jim Cook said the couple's quick thinking saved the house and the dog.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2016/07/14/pokemon-go-fire-sighted-royal-oak/87074332/