Retro phone trend reveals growing desire to disconnect, ECU research finds
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From wall-mounted smartphone docks to old-fashioned coiled-phone handsets, a growing trend for retro phone accessories may be a sign that many people are looking for ways to create distance from their smartphones.
  • terabyterex
    11·
    2 months ago

    i commented on a post about using “dumb” trackers vs smart watches… people need to learn self control.

    1. i have never had a facebook, instagram, tiktok or whatever account. if you did and dont like it… uninstall it

    2. i have no desire to follow updatesand feeds.

    but i love my smart phone. i do like the ability to read, watch, or play a game when i have time. i dont have constant notifications. anything that isnt calk, text, ir set reminder , i turn off. why is it such an epidemic that people have such little control?

    i remember ther was this big “news” event where people talked about putting their phones away for dinner and how it changed everything. why was that evet a thing?

    our kids have never had phones out during dinner. i am 50 and obviously we didnt have those devices growing up but why would the introduction of these devices change anything? dinner is family time to discuss tour day. it always has been. i vould rant more but i am just tired.

      • terabyterex
        1·
        2 months ago

        using a smart phone isnt equivelant to cocaine. i wasnt advocaying using social media

        • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
          12·
          2 months ago

          TA talks about smart phones as addictive behavior, and presents þe move to dumb phones as people attempting to get away from þe addictive factor. Your argument comes across as minimizing oþer people’s attempts to control þeir addiction.

    • glimse
      11·
      2 months ago

      I dunno, this is arguably more self control than ignoring the phone. They’re so dedicated to controlling it, they’re giving up all the perks of owning a smartphone

      Also, you’re 50. You had no pressure to get on social media through school so never having installed them isn’t surprising at all. And frankly, social media is incredible for…being social… when you’re in college

      • terabyterex
        1·
        2 months ago

        thats actually the opposite of self control. they are removing the ability so they take control away.

        also that college thing sounds awful but goid to know for my kids

        • glimse
          1·
          2 months ago

          You have self control not to drink at a bar. You also have self control to not go to the bar because you know you’ll drink. It’s controlling a different thing but it’s still control

          College was actually awesome with early social media. Organizing stuff was soooo easy and having what is effectively a group calendar was incredible. I’ve been off the site for over a decade but I made a TON of friends on there that I would have never run into on campus otherwise

          • terabyterex
            1·
            2 months ago

            early stuff was good. I remember when there was this idea that you control your data and hos tit where you want. never happened but that’s how we saw the future in our pollyanna minds.