poprock wrote:I like having my phone. It’s genuinely useful and improves my life massively. I like always having maps and a satnav in my pocket. I like having instant translation anytime. I like having the web available whenever I want to find or ask something. The entertainment and time killing and email side of things are secondary really. And the actual telephone function is barely used.
afgavinstan wrote:Right SG we fucking get it man, stop making the thread your latest soapbox
SpaceGazelle wrote:afgavinstan wrote:Right SG we fucking get it man, stop making the thread your latest soapbox
It was really trying to do an experiment to see if people could still function without a phone.
Yeah. I’ll go back to using a pager and public phone boxes. Used to be so much fun driving to jobs using pages printed off from Multimaps the night before. I suppose I could do that at the local library.SpaceGazelle wrote:afgavinstan wrote:Right SG we fucking get it man, stop making the thread your latest soapbox
It was really trying to do an experiment to see if people could still function without a phone.
SpaceGazelle wrote:The question, really, is does anyone feel anxious if they leave their phone at home? If they do they have a problem.
A EyesLivDiv wrote:AI will replace our eyes and it will be soon.
Kow wrote:I made a fake Facebook account specially for that time when we trolled that stupid game about the mass shooter. What was it called? Anyway, I still get emails telling me about all the exciting things I'm missing by not ever having logged in again.
lastant wrote:Funnily enough I listened to a podcast about this last week… https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/podcast-979-how-to-create-a-distraction-free-phone/
davyK wrote:A digital detox is an extremely good idea. However I think "digital" is too wide a scope. It's social media that needs kicking into touch. A phone and its killer apps - messaging/comms, web search, camera and maps - is an amazingly useful gizmo for practical quality of life stuff. In theory, social media is a great application but I'm afraid in practice it seems to make an awful lot of people unhappy. I keep Whatsapp and FB restricted to family and close friends. FB is very much on the wane now. YT is a superb resource for information, how tos etc. But it can also be an echo chamber of hate and the algorithms can induce an ever decreasing loop of bias reinforcement. Not healthy. Limiting youtube, facebook,tiktok,X et al is where the effort really needs to go. I find YT incredibly addictive and I have to make a conscious effort not to just pick up the phone at a quite time. Look upon the phone as a tool to be used as and when. I've stopped charging my phones by the bedside. It might be worth just getting a cheap alarm clock if you don't have one and charging the phone overnight outside the bedroom. I restrict forum access to when I am at my PC. I'm lucky enough to have that luxury of course but an alternative is to have a time to do that if you only have a phone.
davyK wrote:Hard to think back to the days when if you didn't meet at the agreed place at the agreed time you were knackered.
lastant wrote:Funnily enough I listened to a podcast about this last week… https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/podcast-979-how-to-create-a-distraction-free-phone/
I lost mine for 3 weeks and felt a lot lighter for it.MyNameIsKrisG wrote:SpaceGazelle wrote:The question, really, is does anyone feel anxious if they leave their phone at home? If they do they have a problem.
It's been a long time since I did, but I used to love it when I realised my phone had been left at home. I actually had a more relaxing day without it.
Kow wrote:I made a fake Facebook account specially for that time when we trolled that stupid game about the mass shooter. What was it called?
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