Ed Sheeran reveals he hasn’t owned a cell phone since 2015

for nearly fourteen years afterwards, I stared at a smartphone every single day. Five thousand days, all in all. I can’t think of anything else I’ve done with the same level of commitment. There have been days where I’ve had nothing to eat or drink and there have been nights when I didn’t sleep. But until very recently, I never once went twenty-fou... See more

Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive . This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras delive

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That said, I’m still addicted to my smartphone. I got my first iPhone in 2007, The hungry birds were my best friend, it got me through my dialysis treatment for 4 hours at a time, 3 days per week. I was 26 at the time, not super young, but young enough to get addicted to this new wonderful device that connected little old shy me to the rest of the ... See more