Opinion | I Gave Up My Smartphone for a Dumbphone. You Can, Too.
Phone addiction isn’t a sign of weakness, but a dependency deliberately engineered by tech companies; the only way to dampen your phone’s hold on you is to keep the damn thing out of your pocket.
For five years, my flip phone has changed my life for the better. Yes, I get lost a lot
Normally, I would trade in my old phone whenever I upgrade, but this time I decided I was going to hold on to it and use it as my “social media” phone (called ‘the SM Phone’ from hereinafter). There’s no number connected with the SM Phone, and I only reach for it when I need to upload things, answer DMs, or when I want to doomscroll (I’m not going... See more
#4 | EXPERIMENTS IN GETTING OFF SOCIAL MEDIA
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 deliver... See more