Yes. Always take advice from NPR.
I have a cellular telephone. I only ever use it to make telephone calls, and it spends about 99% of the time turned off in a desk drawer. I had no idea I was so far ahead of the times.
Nonsense, I’d bet you a dollar to a hole in a doughnut she’s posted this from her cell phone.
I have never had a smart phone. It’s always what I call a dumb phone, which I can use to call and text. Period.
But I’ve also been trying to cut my screen time overall and have noticed just how much less stressed I’m feeling. Screen time seems to put your mind into high gear and condition it to rapid input and responses. Real life seemed slower and almost boring at that point.
Having gotten away from the screen time is resulting me in enjoying real life more and feeling more relaxed.
Does NPR get paid by the word?
I only got rid of my flip phone cause they cut off 3g
I liked my Msft phone, but then they stopped supporting them.
if they made a decent 4g flip with hotspot I would be using it now.
I had a smart phone which took an unplanned swim. I replaced it with a flip phone which does most things I want. I feel like an alien because so many people assume every man woman and child in America has a smart phone.
My wife and I use our phones way too much. Maps, tracking each other’s location, quick info on the fly, etc.
We do bow out of the social media aspect though. Well, I do. My wife mostly does. No politics, etc. Just keeping in touch with family all over the nation.
When we have gatherings, parties, holiday meals, etc... the guests have a bag too.
I started to read this post.....
Life was fine back in the days of the land line. Even before that.
Some people are very low-tech and cannot adapt and adjust to normal 21st Century technology and that’s okay.
We see people who swear by their 1990 model car or truck and would never want a new modern vehicle and that’s okay.
We see people who are unable to use normal modern tools and equipment so as to enjoy normal life and that’s OK too.
If you can’t handle a smartphone, then give it up and your computer, your modern appliances and cars and live the 1950 life. It can be done.
My 25 year old son just switched to a flip phone.
No, I can put my device down anytime. Lately I’m only on Free Republic not even 10 hours a day.
I went a little the other way. I refused forever to get a smart phone till COVID, after I was living in a hotel after a house fire.
No longer had a computer and GPS is a life saver for me as I get lost in my own home town.
However, I do not live on it. My work won’t let us bring them into the job. Have to leave them in a locker. I don’t mind.
I still have a landline. I only use my cellphone for emergencies and there’s no internet access, no voice mail, etc. it makes outgoing calls and receives incoming. The phone is always...ALWAYS off. It amazes me how many people can’t function without a damn phone in their face, and it annoys me to no end at a red light and the car in front of me just sits there when the light turns green because he/she has his/her face in a phone. And then there’s the idiots at the gas station or grocery store who let the whole place hear their mind numbing conversation.
I cannot even get logged into my employer’s computer to do my job every day with my personal cell phone thanks to the @#$! two step authentication crap.
No.
I have self discipline and can use a smart phone to my advantage. Parrot brained bimbos, not so much.