Published on 12, July, 2020
So as of this last week I no longer own a smartphone. I have decided to go fully old school. I have an old LG phone that looks like a Blackberry and just texts and calls with a basic VGA camera and no internet. I have even bought myself an old cassette walkman and I am going to put some of my favourite albums onto cassette so I have something to listen to
I tried all this a few years ago and it helped my mental health so much, made my head so much clearer not having the visual stimulation and endless sensory overload of having the internet in my pocket all day and endless apps and social media sites. After a couple of years I ended up getting a smartphone again, mainly cos of work and the fact that everyone there talked on whats app. Im not at work anymore now though, at least not in an office full of people at least
Might even get a camera and develop photos!
Feels like everyone is living their whole lives through these little screens in their pockets and I just want to get away from it and feel alive again. Also, society keeps saying its impossible to live without one these days so kinda makes me want to try!
Billy87 said:So as of this last week I no longer own a smartphone. I have decided to go fully old school. I have an old LG phone that looks like a Blackberry and just texts and calls with a basic VGA camera and no internet.
Sporadic Sparkly said:I'm 'old school' and have a landline. I do have a basic mobile phone (no bells and whistles) that gets used once in a blue moon, as I don't want to be THAT person with a mobile phone welded to their hand almost 24/7
too much can lead to burnout. So I got rid of my smartphone over two years ago. I have a basic mobile phone and feel less stresses
Can so relate to all of these, I still only use internet on a desk PC on landline/ethernet, and my use of mobile comms is low so prefer to stick with a more basic model.
Billy87 said:I have even had to turn down jobs in the past cos they said I had to have their smartphone app to work for them
That is really out of order, sorry you were put in that position. That is an extreme example of how companies are disadvantaging people without smartphones, wonder if that could even be called out as a discrimination of sorts?
There were some good articles on the BBC recently, 'Ofsted boss surprised by pre-teens with smartphones' and 'Not smart but clever? The return of dumbphones'