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Have You Ever Considered a Dumbphone or Do You Currently Use One? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had a dumb phone until around 2011 and I really miss not staring at my phone all of the time. The only thing that gives me pause is my family sending links via text. I've tried other ways to limit screen time but if it's there I'm gonna use it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see this debate a lot and I just wonder what it is the average person is actually doing on their phone that it's impacting their life so negatively. I constantly am using mine as well... To talk to people. Like I am doing right now, with this comment. For me, all this gestures to the internet is a communications tool, first and foremost. And growing up in a more rural/country area of the country, the absolute best way to connect with new people and discover new things.

I see Twitter is bad, Facebook is bad, Reddit is bad, Instagram is bad... You're literally interacting with people. People will seek out similar minded people outside of the internet and do all the same shit they do on the internet with them. Have the same discussions. Think the same thoughts they are commenting and making memes of. If all this is bad, then that means interacting with other humans is bad.

I've seen another form of this argument before now that I think about it...

"Why don't you get off the comouter and make some friends?"

"I am with some new friends I met the other day right now! We're going on a raid in this dungeon."