What Happens Now That We All HATE Using Our Phone?

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[@cyberpunk.386]

Good video. I actually bookmarked it and I don't do this with many at all. The problem with going back to an old flip phone is that the networks they could connect to, don't exist anymore. At least here in Australia, we are disconnecting 3G networks by mid of the year, and certainly, 4G will be discontinued in 2025 or 2026.

[@silverbullet2008bb]

I remember when facebook first came out you needed a university email address to be able to create and account. I was at uni at the time that's how i remember

[@christopher9727]

.... Do you know Jesus Christ can set you free from sins and save you from hell today Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Romans 6.23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus

[@AMPProf]

NO NO NO AND NO AND AGAIN NO A NEVER CAUSE I DO NOT LIKE SCAMS

[@AMPProf]

Junkies Dont trust you sir

[@sensiblekoala]

I think people are unconsciously realizing that the infinite media consumption loop leaves us dissatisfied. Finding a passion, learning a skill, overcoming challenges, being appreciated for that skill etc is what makes us happy. None of which occurs when mindlessly consuming media.

[@yolo3004]

being appreciated as if seeking approval?

[@CyasoonS2]

​@@yolo3004you don't need anyone's approval to do anything. But sharing what you've made with others and having your efforts recognized by others makes us feel happy. For example, when a child shows their parents a drawing they've made! The child doesn't need their parent's validation to make another drawing but it does feel good to both have people recognize our efforts and to make things to show others. We humans love sharing our creations :)

[@Video_Fiend]

To be fair consuming content such as tutorials and educational videos does exactly that thing. However, I guess that wouldn't fall in the category of "mindlessly consuming content".

[@ragingfred]

Everyone is being prescribed meds when the real cure is to touch grass.

[@yolo3004]

@@CyasoonS2 that's the book definition of approval

[@SzaboB33]

"In the future watching TikTok might be seen as lame" Deep down I knew I was living in the future

[@SynthAir]

We're just ahead of our time--the avant-garde 😌

[@folksurvival]

It has always been lame.

[@Warp2090]

@@folksurvival Yeah

[@arone6298]

Yessir

[@Elomentoplayz]

I literally got an extension to delete KZbin shorts because I was addicted to it. Never gone back and don't regret a thing.

[@kated442]

I just want a social media feed that isn’t sensationalized, and gives me the media and humor and insight want without making me feel like the world is full of evil idiots, or that I’m not radical and angry enough to, or that my art doesn’t matter.

[@alanawolf1556]

Hi, your art DOES matter. Signed, a not-terribly-evil person on the Internet of middling intelligence ❤️

[@reduxflakes]

Fediverse is what you want

[@sportmaniac10]

See I’m the opposite, I hate the idea of social apps making my feed as fine tuned to me as possible, thereby making it as addicting as possible

[@themultiverse5447]

@@sportmaniac10 Your missing the mark. OP didn't bring any of those thing up. The point is...NVM go watch your Marvel movies on repeat, hypocrite.

[@sportmaniac10]

@@themultiverse5447 what

[@Valoric]

I’m legitimately fascinated with the idea of returning to single purpose technology. Like very compact cameras which are better than smartphones at photography. Gameboys with dedicated controls that can play games better than phone touchscreen. Music players which play music with less hardware interference than phones. All of it being more simple in design and ultimately repairable. All of which have longer lifespans than a phone.

[@ambiarock590]

I've been running iPods as my music players. I've been going between a 5.5th gen video (w/ clickwheel) and a 7th gen touch so I can easily adjust the volume of songs while cycling. I'd love to run an older phone tbh. I think using a feature phone would be great but I need to be able to side load discord cuz that's how I chat with my closest friends.

[@Halo9K]

I'm with you in that idea, at least to a point. Apple and the others have made their products so expensive by trying to make them do everything! My Ultra2 Apple Watch is more and more becoming my go to device for communication as far as when I leave the house. I take my iPhone 13Mini more often than not because of CarPlay. I too bought a camera though I do like the convenience of my iPhone. The camera is a 48 megapixel Canon with a 40x optical zoom. Being a diabetic, my Ultra2 became more useful since Dexcom updated their app allowing their G7 sensor to directly connect to the Apple Watch vice merely mirroring the iPhone. This allows me to leave my phone home more often. The Ultra2 is also my iPod when using earbuds. I would be excited if the AW could become independent of the iPhone.

[@la8524]

But the idea of a phone is that u can have all those devices all in one device and its so convenient.. i personally hate having lot of shit laying around in my pockets

[@Drstrange3000]

I get the appeal and have a lot of nostalgia for single use technology, but I prefer what we have now. What I do miss is unique experiences found in these newer technologies, which is why I took a liking to VR/AR. Most of the current tech has been a refinement from stuff a decade or more ago.

[@shraka]

The phone is kind of more efficient though, because a lot of the tech in a camera is the same as in a phone. Though you could have a bulky device that does your camera, music, podcasts, games, whatever but only has wifi, then have a dumb phone.

[@Fuerwahrhalunke]

It's not the phones that I hate, it's how people use them. They are not for emergencies anymore, they are part of everyday life. They are everywhere. Through positive affirmation they are practically forced into your hands if you don't proactively refuse them. I don't use a phone, so I notice how people act around me and especially with me even more. I know multiple people who are physically unable to lay down their phone for more than 10 minutes to talk. My newest trick: I now carry a deck of cards with me to family gatherings and to work. If they accept to play, they at least have no time to be staring at their phones while they are busy playing. (And it also opens them up to talking.)

[@winonajohnson3349]

That’s a great idea! God bless you!

[@marcsequence]

So I should download a deck of cards app?

[@doodledude2d295]

@@marcsequence No, LOL

[@thatkid2773]

Ooh, I have some decks of cards. What a cool idea! I like your perspective too, I definitely agree; I wish the way phones are used (or expected to be used) these days was a bit less pervasive. At least to the point where the average person won't give you side-eye when they find out you don't use your phone like we're expected to use it!

[@Fuerwahrhalunke]

​@@thatkid2773 And since I've written this comment I actually got two of my friends hooked on playing cards 😀 It's now our go to activity when we just want to relax. We also added Dominoes to that list. Something very relaxing about that. It's really interesting how people react when I offer them to play cards (Or Dominoes now). Some keep playing, even when I'm not there and for some it has gotten to the point where it's the first thing they ask me whenever they see me. I love it 🙂

[@kevikiru]

I think that stating the sales of dumb phones and making it seem like it's a new phenomenon is misleading. The reason that the sale of dumb phones, otherwise called feature phones, is at 1 billion is not because they are trendy, it's because they are cheap and it's what most people in developing countries like mine can afford. Additionally, most old people cannot use smartphones around here because they were not exposed to any kind of computing or digital interfaces like in developed countries. With 10 to 20 dollars you can get a dumb phone, but to buy an internet connected handset you need about 30 dollars. And to get a decent one, you need at least 80 dollars. The amounts and difference might not seem much but it means a lot for people around here. So you just buy a device to allow you to make phone calls and text and do SMS banking. Dumb phones are not a trend here like in the US and Europe, they are what we can afford.

[@j0rp]

What do you feel like the advantages are to owning the 80 dollar handset?

[@JonatasAdoM]

Not to mention that smartphones are not a one time payment. They require internet, they attract the eye of robbers, they need to be replaced far more often, the specs matter and you may run out of space, because people do not understand the concept of storage.

[@waltermessines5181]

@@JonatasAdoM That's pretty relative regarding running out of space and requiring Internet. It depends on how you use it. You don't need WIFI on your phone if you have a hard wired desktop or laptop. It's a choice that people make; has little to do with the tech.

[@duudsuufd]

I also think that the reason of this trend is that more and more people cannot afford to buy smartphones. We all know the rich get richer and all the rest becomes poorer.

[@johnathin0061892]

Americans are getting poorer and poorer (and a majority will be in literal poverty in 20 years), cheaper phones makes sense in America as well. If I didn't need a smartphone for work, I'd have a dumb phone no question.

[@Pooneil1984]

I love my iPhone. Metaphorically speaking that is. Tools are not meant to be cool, but to be useful. TikTok has never been cool to me. Games are not cool to me. But as life of feeling like an outsider on the mainstream, I applaud anyone that de-techs if it makes their life better.

[@jaydeepgoswami4862]

Seems like you’re still in your 20’s struggling to be ‘Cool’. With age you will realise that anything that doesn’t have a utility is completely dispensable, no value or worth for any human to spend time energy or money on anything that is Cool or Beautiful or anything other than useful.

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

​@@jaydeepgoswami4862I feel like you might have only read the first sentence where he said he loves his iPhone because the rest of it largely amplified what you said.

[@Lilliathi]

@@jaydeepgoswami4862 He has his birth year in his name. Either way, being old doesn't turn you into a utilitarian. There's a reason why men in their midlife crisis buy a lambo.

[@MyVanir]

@@jaydeepgoswami4862 Seems like you're still in your teens, struggling with the common ability known as reading comprehension. I'd work on that.

[@Pooneil1984]

@@michaelcorcoran8768 You are correct in that. Besides "cool" is still a necessary part of life. Just a lot less so.

[@_Mike.P]

Now I am confused. I always thought that I just wasn’t cool. Turns out, I was just ahead of the curve with some things.

[@seemysight]

Keep going ahead of the curve. And you will never be cool

[@shraka]

Not using a smart phone has been low key cool since... I wanna say 2018?

[@sebbesoder]

whats cool is to be yourself

[@joejones9520]

ive never had a smart phone or used social media or even texted and i like it like this

[@shraka]

@@joejones9520 Err… The comments on KZbin is social media.

[@vazzaroth]

You know one place I would love to see as a real phone free zone? The driver's seat in a car. SOOOOOOO many mofos just sitting at green lights for upwards of 60 seconds these days, ffs -_-. I just got my car back from a shop after a guy randomly stopped, then suddenly merged into me last month and I've suspected he was staring at a phone rather than checking his side mirrors. (He fled the scene as well, turned himself in later, so seems like he had something to hide)

[@creamy_jello]

It’s sad even waiting in a line that isn’t that long people can’t stand feeling “bored” (normal everyday life) they constantly need stimulation cuz everyone is wired like that. It’s genuinely sad and I see it a lot in my mom sister and brother…

[@AsdrubaleRossi]

The thumbnail is pure genius

[@b.c.w.meesters259]

But on the other side, you have his profile picture

[@JSSMVCJR2.1]

Having Fatboy Slim's "Right Here, Right Now" can't be described with any word.

[@hfc-u7l]

Mr nuerologist? how do i stop my phone addiction "FIVE. HUNDRED. CIGARETTES."

[@JSSMVCJR2.1]

@@hfc-u7l "How do I stop my nicotine addiction now?"

[@umamifan]

The thumbnail made me click, even though I already knew what the video would say and that this KZbinr is another commentary “indie documentary” type

[@Betito1171]

Our over use of smartphones is just a symptom of a bigger problem. We’re desperate to socialize but third places keep being taken away from us and replaced by parking lots.

[@NinaEye]

Third places were nice. Now such places just want you to order something, eat and leave.

[@Krijgdetyfus1]

I am gay and this is deep

[@mjc0961]

Even the few third places that are there, I can't be assed to drive to them.

[@ashykinz5162]

Wow man. I remember watching a documentary called ‘the social dilemma’. Instagram and TikTok have been off my phone since then. KZbin I can’t seem to get rid of but this video was a really nice wake up call for me

[@Sajgoniarz]

It's because KZbin can be quite informative. Facebook is full of ads this days. I have plugin that removes all the shit, and there is so much of it, that if i manage to left tab open, it will eventually crash after some scrolling. I never get into TikTok since i don't believe that short content can be meaningful and worth watching.

[@ThePC007]

​@@Sajgoniarz True, but it’s also addictive. I’ve actually managed to beat my KZbin addiction by buying some nice video games and filling the void left by leaving KZbin with them-and it worked! At first, I’d quit KZbin altogether, then I’d only watch a single Let’s Play without interacting with the addictive algorithm at all, as I’ve disabled it with an extension. But then I had a somewhat more stressful period in my life and relapsed, which is why I’m here now.

[@Kevintendo]

@@Sajgoniarzcan you share the name of the plugin please?

[@Sajgoniarz]

@@Kevintendo its ESuit Ad blocker for FB :)

[@HipsterLumberjack]

​@@Sajgoniarz I don't think it's just because youtube has "better" content. I think a lot of people use KZbin in the same way they're using social media, as a replacement for having hobbies and living life. We've tricked ourselves into believing that we're engaging with the internet the correct way by not using social media

[@XantoS771]

The ultimate challenge is having a smartphone but using it just as a dumbphone, I recommend everyone to try this

[@tid418]

Easy. Been doing that since I got it.

[@XantoS771]

@@tid418 You are a real one then. Thumbs up!

[@cassiuscartland]

if you have an iPhone, turn on assistive access. It basically turns it into a dumb phone, and you can allow a few apps that you can't go without

[@themultiverse5447]

This should be pinned on top :)

[@BringBackClassAndMaturity]

I dumbed my iPhone down. It has 13 apps on the Home Screen - useful apps only....no widgets or flippy thingies. All other apps live on the App Library. Turned off the Siri recommendations. Turned off all notifications except texts and calls. Removed all "cheap dopamine" apps. If I want to watch YouRube on it, I have to do it via browser, making it less desirable/less of a time suck. Deactivated social media. I refuse to make people in tall buildings rich off my data. I'd rather use my time making myself rich. Offline is the new luxury.

[@sushimidget840]

I brought a Nokia feature phone and have all my socials on my laptop. Let me tell you, the world feels so much more beautiful when your notifications and constant temptation isn't following you wherever you go. You have no choice but to look around, talk to people. Trying to moderate smartphone usage is so difficult, just tossing it feels amazing!

[@mjc0961]

This is the perfect example of what the video is saying: smartphones aren't the real problem. For you, notifications were the problem. You solved that by tossing your smartphone, and fair play to you if that worked. Me, I solved by being on top of the notification permissions on my smartphone. I get one notification I don't like, I'm going into settings to block the app from sending that notification ever again. Also, I refuse to use apps for things that I can do in the web browser. That also cuts down on notifications.

[@lzh4950]

Too bad 2 & 3G are being shut down in my country

[@DerekRobertsteig]

When I take a bus to work, I see people heads down on TikTok, ignoring those who may need a seat, or even missing their stop. When I go to dinner, my partner is glued to her phone, silent and unengaged with me. We've lost our attention and our basis for reality by plunging ourselves into the aether of the internet. Is it any wonder we're all experiencing a general rise in dissociation and derealization, when most of our experience of reality is pixels and pretty colors? To me it makes sense. We need to re-learn how to experience life when we're not actively being entertained or consuming media.

[@IzuAurora]

This goes perfectly hand in hand with the work exhaustion. People are sacrificing their life putting in all their hours in a day into work just to keep them afloat. Most ppl are just working, maybe even working two jobs and after that, they're way too tired to socialise or do anything skill required. There's so little time and energy free for us in a day that it's so much easier to just sit on the sofa and scroll your phone and get the instant dopamine. And this cycle only feeds itself and the rich companies running the world would do anything to make sure this cycle continues. (This also makes sure the fast food industry thrives and that in turn makes it so that the big pharma makes billions. It's all structural capitalism 💁🏽‍♀️ Whatever happens, keep ppl tired, sick and engaged in content.)

[@bruce-le-smith]

gardening is amazing. young gadget me wouldve never believed that. but its incredible how time slows down

[@annedr0id]

my sister came to visit me from across the country (us) and we decided to watch a movie with my husband. in the middle of the movie she took out her phone and just started scrolling, on my other side my husband started to do the same. i was so shocked by it, it felt terrible to be in that moment.

[@mjc0961]

@@annedr0id Did the movie suck? If a movie sucks and I get bored I will definitely find myself pulling out my phone. Although I try to be more attentive of that - if I've decided it's phone time, then it's actually turn this movie off and find something else to do time. Not mindlessly scroll while the boring movie keeps running time.

[@r34ztune11]

I don't want a dumbphone but I'm simply not on social media at all. I have nothing to "scroll" on my phone. I use it as music player(IEMs + 3.5mm audio jack), web browsing when I'm bored at work and calls/texting. Sometimes I'll watch KZbin through NewPipe or read about something interesting on Wikipedia. I also take pictures of mostly random stray cats and work-related things. I never liked social media, even when it was cool and I was the only kid in high school who didn't have a Facebook. I didn't want my privacy to be invaded and I never saw the point of posting my life online for others to see.

[@fetchstixRHD]

Pretty much me too, I don't really have any social media but mostly use my phone for music/videos (I couldn't go without music!) take pictures with it sometimes, maps if I'm out, and for a continuous glucose monitor (which is life changing in and of itself). Only relatively recently have I needed to use it to communicate with people more, funny enough!

[@TheZzuzy]

I think something people forget is that teenagers usually don't want the same things as their parents, facebook stopped being cool when every mom,dad and grandma where on it. The same will happen to the things we like right now when our kids reach teen years

[@eeeee11235]

meh, schools can teach & strictly enforce these rules, and i'm sure cellphone companies are happy either way since they make all cellphones, dumb or smart

[@inevespace]

in china every grandparent is with tiktok. Youngs don't care.

[@Monkymode756]

I think it’d be cool if we had the option to turn off algorithmic feeds for media apps, hopefully that’s a thing soon

[@megamanguy]

WE HATE USING OUR PHONE BECAUSE THE INTERNET IS FULL OF ATTENTION DRAINING VIDEOS AND GIMMICKS TRYING TO GET US TO SPEND MONEY

[@bombombalu]

The problem aren't the videos. We always had them. It's the big corporations that make you addicted with their algorithms.

[@umamifan]

@@bombombaluit’s really entertainment as a whole. Even before the algorithms, there were the people who were addicted to just sitting down and watching tv all day. That type has now not only evolved, but multiplied and spread to nearly everyone.

[@scruff7559]

you forgot to mention surveillence and the complete compromisation of privacy to serve us propaganda at our own expense

[@rhauf1]

Spot on, but most people don't care about this. If they did, you'd see a uptick of people running privacy based OS's such as Graphene on their phones, but it's still pretty low. (for context, I've been running Graphene for a couple years now and love it) Windows, MacOS, and every new car is equally invasive in spying. Add nearly all "smart devices" such as Alexa to the list.

[@greengooflight]

the most shocking fact is the wasted years on the screen, the wasted years will never return, childhood cannot be reclaimed

[@Hexagonian]

Well, if yesterday was the best time to stop, the next best time is now.

[@StrongZeroPowerHour]

have no fear, culture's had no difficulty rhapsodizing a fully digitized childhood. Look at every "nostalgia" wave of the last ten years.

[@howvery_]

i rlly dont get what ppl think the alternative is, i was a kid in the early 2000s and spent my time in front of tv shows and my playstation and pc lol, the people that didnt do that who were more outgoing than me spent their time gossiping and bullying each other at school, some been alcoholics since high school, my dad started drinking with his friends at age 13 or smth and now cant stop. people will always have something bothering them if its not screens its something else.

[@Mistrz-mw4db]

@@howvery_ That's how you justify your wasted time? "others are worse, they are all bad bullies, i had no alternative" im spending my life same way as you, but the way you explain it to yourself is just pathetic

[@ScyllasSimp]

Screen time definitely isn't inherently wasted if you're genuinely doing something you enjoy. If you're addicted and would rather be doing something else that's one thing, but any time I play a video game, watch a TV show, or browse the internet in a way I enjoy rather than in a way I'm compelled to do, I don't see that as wasted time at all. That's me enjoying my time.

[@Huhhuhwhuhuhh]

I quit social media almost a year ago. I’m so thankful. I’ve grown to hate it more and more as I see the effects on everyone and how it had the same effects on me before. The amount of people that are stunned (or even bummed) when I say I don’t have an app to connect with them with is sobering. I got to the point where if someone was meant to be in my life, we would like each other enough to make it work without an app. Needless to say, my circle is much smaller now, but at least it’s real.

[@mjc0961]

You didn't quit social media, you posted this comment on social media.

[@thebestcat9601]

@@mjc0961They obviously mean facebook, insta, X and tiktok.

[@s3rit661]

As soon as the income comes from ADS, social media will never stop asking for your time.

[@JonatasAdoM]

They could stop asking for the data too at least.

[@TheArunster]

​@@JonatasAdoMbut they need the data to optimize your watch time

[@JSSMVCJR2.1]

Standard Anticap Logic.

[@s3rit661]

@@JSSMVCJR2.1 Nah it's just meta/tik tok/KZbin logic, the more reels you watch, the more ads you watch, the more money they get from you

[@Tate525]

​@@JonatasAdoM Data is the real gold, that's how they figure out what you truly like and repeatedly spam ads of things you want so you have higher chance of just giving up and buying the stuff.

[@RB-yt6rx]

Its pretty crazy how addictive social media is. And how common it is for people to say they dont even like it. It rly is so addictive seeing all the memes and posts. Information and news. No matter how much i cut it out or cut back it creeps back in. And the fact that everything online is designed to act the same addictive way now... Is rly uncomfortable. It makes it to where there really is no Safe and Healthy way to use this technology. You cant even "just browse somewhere else" because of how money hungry every part of the internet is/has to be to survive.

[@alephcake]

so basically corporations ruined humanity for money feels like ive heard that one before in some book

[@ScrimmyBingus42]

Honestly, something that made a huge change for me was just disabling certain notifications on social media apps. That way there's less reminders to suck me into doom scrolling

[@Cluwne]

Phones have gone to sh*t in general-too many marketers, too many scammers. You can't trust any random number calling you. I haven't answered the phone in years unless I already know who's calling.

[@Mistrz-mw4db]

You know, you will not get scammed or killed by just answering the phone? I mean, what could happen?

[@eardestructioninc.4928]

I've noticed this sentiment recently. It used to be that we would make fun of old people for blaming mental health issues on phones -- nowadays we're like "oh crap, the boomers were probably right"

[@The_Butcher_of_Blaviken]

Social media are dying. Smartphones are not, they've just peaked. They are mature enough so people now see them more for what they are: the most useful tool you can carry around with you.

[@JonatasAdoM]

So long as it isn't required, as some sort of driver's license. Smartphones should have been like computers - Now computers are becoming Smartphones.

[@zekiz774]

@@JonatasAdoMThey are the most useful tools because they’re required.

[@torfaro9075]

lmao, social media IS NOT dying. it is getting more and more popular each and every day. it just dying in your eyes.

[@torfaro9075]

​@JonatasAdoM wrong. smart phones are becoming computers.

[@zekiz774]

@Jayblue17723 the average person needs a computer in their pocked in this time and date. I don't know anyone except my grandparents who leave their home without their phone. Do you never meet up with people?

[@brettzolstick989]

Abandon phone, return to cigarette.

[@sarasvatijejeje]

😂 funny

[@kouchka09]

500 cigarettes.

[@jubiraoo]

Embrace traditional haha

[@thora.-111]

REAL

[@deathdogg0]

I think people started feeling anxious in 2012 because now everyone was suddenly connected and realized how small and insignificant we all are. There are billions and we are just one, and that's not even taking into consideration the rest of the universe. Suddenly realizing that you were having the same experiences as everyone else, and now you could see other people living just like you, you realized you were not special or unique. People needed to suddenly find a personal meaning to life, instead of just assuming that we were amazing just for being alive and leaving it at that

[@fre_shady]

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[@Tate525]

It's just people trying to hyper compete with each other in the most superficial aspects of life, which in the moment seem very important on these apps. Assuming if you were really that safe and secure with yourself & just amazed and appreciative of the fact you are alive and well, you wouldn't even be on these apps to being with.

[@jakeheller9978]

Everyone thought the Mayan calendar ending in 2012 meant the end of the world but their calendars also meant different ages for humanity so maybe it wasn't wrong all along

[@MangoPanic]

I honestly think another factor in this is simply that smartphones are becoming boring to us now. The latest iPhone looks the same as the one released 5 years ago. No one can even tell if you have the latest phone anymore, so there's no rush to go out and buy one. Social media hasn't changed much at all since TikTok came out, which was initially a decade ago with the release of Musically But y'know what _does_ attract attention? Switching to a dumbphone. People ask all kinds of questions about it! It's seen as a challenge, and people love the retro aesthetic, and the cute stickers you can put all over the phones.

[@RinascimentoCulturale]

Enrico Is singlehandedly keeping Italians cool in the meta discourse of technology. Thank you for your thoughts provoking videos!

[@TranscendentalAirwaves]

Man I've been saying it was all bad and addictive since 2013 when my family got the internet. We went from having coffee together in the morning to all running to our computers or TVs to watch media and browse mindlessly. The shift was honestly insane. I resisted getting a cellphone until 2022 when I needed it for my job, honestly I would love things to go back to normal and have everything go back to not needing the internet or phones to function. It's been getting harder and harder to get by without both of those things because everything from computer software to washing machines assumes you have access to the internet. It would honestly be great to be able to survive without it again.

[@Somedroxy]

i deleted all on my social media a year ago. i started going out, first to bars which wasn’t great. then i started joining book clubs, going to open mics, karaoke nights. just basically forcing myself into positions where i have to talk in front of people. for sure, the first month was rough but after watching a lot of videos on how to communicate better, i started getting comfortable talking to strangers. i think something that really helps is having a hobby to make friends around, for example, i like to write short stories and sing songs from the 40s and 50s. so i would talk about to my writing process, tropes i like to use. whenever i would go to karaoke, i would almost always get into a conversation about fallout bc that’s where my love of oldies got started. so my hobbies really helped me branch out of small talk conversation topics, i highly recommend people connect their hobbies together so you can keep a conversation going

[@RabbitWatchShop]

All trends die. The adoption of 'dumb phones' over 'smart phones' is yet another trend that will expire in due time. A lot of people that have attempted this transition enjoyed the experience yet returned to smart phone usage, because a dumb phone is simply impractical in today's tech-integrated world.

[@alanawolf1556]

Unless you agree with the smoking analogy. If we see strong evidence that the cheap, easy media consumption that smartphones enable directly correlates with important health metrics, I would not at all be surprised at a decline in usage.

[@daphenomenalz4100]

Yeah, a dumb phone now should probably at least have a browser and a messenger to talk to your family and friends. I feel like that's probably enough if you really want to go dumb phone. Cuz transitioning totally into nothing will just make you lose your livelihood lmao

[@RabbitWatchShop]

@@alanawolf1556 how a smart phone effects its user is, well, based on the consumer. I’m cautious in the amount of time I spend on social media. And I am even more careful about the content I consume, because some content simply isn’t healthy for mental health. You can use a smartphone wisely by avoiding most social media, and/or the amount of time you use those platforms; and instead, use the life improving applications.

[@JSSMVCJR2.1]

there's only one way to find out...

[@BadenHealth]

Or use a smartphone but not for excess media consumption…

[@etownshawn]

not to mention all social media apps are being overtaken by bots, and they do nothing about it. 2015 I used to love when I got notifications, or a celebrity's attention. Now- everything is a g-damn bot. When I phone makes noise instead of me feeling excitement it's "ugh what now?". Everything has gone stale

[@xymaryai8283]

"music player, phone, internet communicator... are getting what i'm saying? this is not one device, these are seperate devices"

[@Tropical-]

Having separate devices is a waste of time, and makes no sense and a waste of space: edit also it’s bad for the environment, just keep your phone for a while and stop using social media, just stick with IMessage or WhatsApp to message friends and family

[@xymaryai8283]

@@Tropical- i agree, but its not that easy for people. and theres a certain romance to individual devices

[@STKSOUND]

i'm just waiting to whatsapp to stop being used by everyone for text to pick up my old nokia from the drawer

[@LuckyLego]

Come to the usa, most don’t use it

[@Faizan29353]

@@LuckyLego they use Imessage, and for that u need Iphones, the opposite of having a nokia or somethin

[@Lilleh__]

I would gladly just bin off all meta apps if it didn't mean cutting off contact w/ the vast majority of my irl friends.

[@alhutchison1535]

What the ___ is whatsapp? Never used it, still using plain old messaging app (SMS/MMS)

[@Faizan29353]

@@Lilleh__ Agreed

[@bolotiart]

I think it's because how lonely we are. Tiktok, instagram have literally replaced the feeling of loneliness with the feeling of being included somewhere. When you scroll tiktok and see things by your interests, and see people that have the same interests as you - you feel a lot better. It's addictive. It's too hard to find real friends nowdays

[@Herogaze]

i always tell people when they talk about how bad their phone is for them, I point out to them that theres nothing worng with the phone itself, its always 100% of the time social media and content hubs that they're actually talking about. Nobody's bitching about google maps, or your banking app, or your notes app lol. its always tiktok, insta, youtube, twitch, reddit, etc.

[@snaggiz]

I’m so glad I started dumbing down my phone, restricted my social media use and started focusing on getting MORE out of the tech around me for productivity, fitness, health and entertainment and it’s been the most liberating experience I’ve had in a long time. Now my tech (which I do love) actually functions as tools rather than a time sink.

[@bearlogg7974]

The horrifying thought that a generation don’t know how it was before the smartphone and going back to that way of life isn’t even an option

[@dimitrijekrstic7567]

It's a stupid thought, since you can just put the phone down and enjoy real connection lol. Wake up, you've also been indoctrinated

[@ballsack7692]

Two.

[@brynnevans1025]

Here's something I find crazy. I clicked on this video, started to watch it...and it started to feel familiar. I started to recognize it. So I pulled up my browser history to find, I already watched this video...23 days ago. Not even a month. Yes, I still recognized it, but there was so much about it I had already forgotten, including the fact that I'd even watched it. This reminds me that...yeah, I'm consuming fun content, but if I forget what I watch this quickly? Maybe my time is better spent in a more directed way.

[@iriscapes]

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[@sidensvans67]

The Marlboro Men died of Lung Cancer and heart lung complications . One was a non smoker , he quit the programme after 10 years to set a better example to his kids . He lived to be 90 years old . He was Cool .

[@notaspectator]

Yeah, 3 months ago my friends Mom died at just 61 , I remember her being anxious and having PTSD and smoking all the time, yet at 50 she had cancer and beat it, it still caught up to her later. Wild how its also important to figure out WHY we scroll, why we eat bad food at 10pm, why I overdo it with weed , when once I did it all in moderate , it was more under my control of choice. Heck, smoking was a stage to learn from for us all. It's okay to be wrong, as long as we can figure the reason and take accountability , right?

[@mattiesmusic]

Personally I just want a tool to serve it's purpose, but if feels like a phone doesn't know what it wants to be and clutters everything so much that each uear it looses functionality by getting more

[@akeem2983]

Phone knows exactly what it wants to be - a general-purpose computer with web browser, text editor, calculator, games and all of the other apps that are typical for PCs

[@user-q018]

a phone is cosplaying the computer

[@ivtec4fun55]

I've had disdain for my personal social medias for over a decade since smart phones came out, it feels so fake. The real world is actually so much more rich, watching the sun come up, go down, and everything that entails everyday is really relaxing.

[@GlorbMonkey]

Im a younger person, and im already sick of my phone. It was cool when i got it for the first time a couple years ago, but now it's just boring and I've been trying to find more stimulating things to do.

[@thebaru]

this video should have waaaay more views! The thumbnail, the research, the editing: it is incredible Enrico! I am really in love with the dumb phone idea and I really hope it spreads across people!

[@V530-15ICR]

I don't hate phones, but I hate when companies require you to use an app on your phone instead of using a website on any device. For example, some router manufacturers like Google will require that, and that sucks. Good routers like ASUS will have a web interface which is much better.

[@AuronScott]

That's because Google wants to track your every move, so this is one easy way for them to do so.

[@GramGramGenX-ln5sc]

It's an addiction, not a tool, for most people. Unplug from the collective and experience real life, while you can.

[@peachypeach6653]

I can't wait until filming will be forbidden at concerts. Is so annoying if the person in front of you is filming the whole concert and you are forced to look through their screen >.

[@mikiabc3907]

It's like we aren't able to be bored anymore, we all just have to always do something. I find that when I actually have interesting stuff going on in my life I don't feel the need to use my phone for anything other than necessities.

[@Skapo]

Everyone doesn’t hate their phones. Just a few people who scape goat it for their problems and are vocal about it (ironically on their phones usually).

[@TomScryleus]

I agree with the idea. I don't think I'm addicted to my smartphone at all. Its the social media apps that are addictive. Thats why I don't have any.

[@ghostfarts_]

youtube 💀

[@Ricardo_io]

KZbin is a social media.

[@Voornaam-u4u]

Just check your screen time. You’ll be surprised

[@NENEBIRK]

Sitting with my thoughts while eating are now uncomfortable.. i havent had a smartphone as a kid. But as a teenager. Its scary to think, i dont know what to do when im by myself. I need to keep setting bounderies for myself.

[@Matthew.Morycinski]

Re: phone. What I really want is: - a dumbphone - with modem for CELLULAR DATA ONLY (no "minutes" please) - accessing the same VOIP (SIP) account as is used on my home/computer/laptop/whatever other device - able to display and send SMS via SIP/SIMPLE Basically an IP phone connecting to the network via cell tower not WIFI. Too much to ask? I only need ONE phone number. And I don't want to forward calls to cell/dumb phone because it reveals my second number. All of this is perfectly doable with a smartphone and a SIP app such as Acrobits, but that exactly is the problem. I want the functionality WITHOUT the addictiveness.

[@JonatasAdoM]

The issue is that the computer would replace the compulsory behavior.

[@Matthew.Morycinski]

@@JonatasAdoM That's why I have a dumb phone.

[@Roxor128]

Telcos should be required by law to only bill you based on the amount of data you use. Phone calls and text messages should count towards your bill solely from their data quantity, not what they are or where they're going. Under such a scheme, if you're paying $1 per megabyte of data, then a text message would cost about $0.00015, not the $0.25 they typically do.

[@Matthew.Morycinski]

@@Roxor128 I couldn't agree more. The reality is, most people don't realize they are overpaying. The 80 kilobits per second, or equivalently 35 megabytes per HOUR is just a rounding error in a typical multiple-gigabyte monthly plan. That's why they sell you data with unlimited minutes, at least in Canada they do. But try intercontinental long distance, and you are much better off using a SIP provider. I mentioned it to CRTC in context of a public inquiry, and heard an excuse from one of Big Three that they offer a "managed network". Thanks, but I prefer my own unmanaged amateur setup that works better.

[@acex222]

@@Roxor128 so how would a telco pay their staff?

[@ReavoEnd]

There's a pretty cool indie game that's relatively new called "Void Stranger." While it isn't marketed, one of the coolest things it does is NOT maximizing time. You traverse a tower, each floor is quietly a save point, and every 20-30 floors there's a rest point. When you rest, the game abruptly stops. It closes completely. And when you start the game back up, it doesn't just pick up where you left off... It does something unexpected. This is so interesting to me. It respects the player's time while rewarding them for returning to the game, whenever they choose to. The player's time is not stolen from them.

[@febilogi]

wow very interesting. I am gonna look it up. Thanks for sharing!

[@leinadreign3510]

Im still happy with my old and trusty Blackberry as my phone. Even if the support is long gone and I cant use it that effective as before. Even receiving emails will stop soon. But heck, almost nobody has a cool phone as I do!

[@DX48H9WM]

Can you imagine AR Glasses showing you ads all the time? Sounds like a nightmare lol

[@robin13392]

Here's an idea for all those doomscrollers... Uninstall these apps and manage your notifications. Smartphones are great tools to make your life easier and yet we choose to use it to watch people online do the most cringeworthy stuff. The phone is not the problem, the user is.

[@robertmaxey5406]

I should think it is not the phone that is the problem. Rather, it is self-control.

[@tetra_punk_choccy_milk]

I agree, we should not blame the internet and smartphone, its a great tool specially here in third world countries, we should blame greedy big techs and their social medias that exploits humans psychology to obtain our personal data

[@_Mutt_]

"Here's one for all the doom-scrollers out there:"

[@whatishappening2797]

Hey basically a good idea, but the people who resort to buying dumbphones have tried this and pretty much everything else to reduce their screen time, but keep going back to their devices because they are literally addicted, which is what the apps are designed to be. So changing to a phone that doesn't even offer you that type of possibility for addiction is a smart move, if you realize it's too hard or impossible for you to get your own attention back otherwise. The best way to change your behavior is to change your environment. When your environment supports good habits and makes bad habits harder, it's way easier to stick to the good ones.

[@akeem2983]

I tried doing exactly this several times and failed miserably

[@ilTHfeaa]

i think a huge reason why everyone is addicted to social media and their phone is due to the loss of third places. no one has places to go and hang out with their friends in person anymore. and why would they need them? they can just send memes to their friends on instagram now and call it “socializing”. when i was 14 i remember going to the library once a week for “teen zone” where we all hung out for a few hours and it was fun. we had phones, i was 14/15 in 2009/2010 and we had phones but they weren’t as addictive as they are today. we still hung out with each other to watch tv or play games or do whatever.. but now everyone can do it on their phone so they don’t rlly feel the need to leave the house and do it in person. but i miss physically hanging out with people. But the problem now is just my schedule never lines up with my friends lol

[@MysteryD]

You could just... ya know... not use facebook, or tiktok, or instagram, etc etc. My phone is a multitool, not an entertainment device.

[@whatishappening2797]

People are trying but are literally addicted, which is what these apps are designed to be. When good habits don't stick, changing your environment to make them much more likely is the easiest way to help you move in the direction you want to go.

[@Lilleh__]

I already knew there's nothing wrong w/ smartphones or even social media on their own, and that its all the attempts of the big tech companies to make their social media as addictive as it can be. Personally I have no problem w/ my phone being a smartphone, although that may be bc I don't really use social media on it much, and when I'm on social media I don't doomscroll. Most of what I do on my phone is either spending a few minutes chatting on discord or playing a couple of rhythm games.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Being glued to the phone could also be a symptom of other unsolved issues, rather than the cause. Similar to how many issues people face are often not caused by the outlet they choose; it rather being a way of trying to survive the untreated issue. Sadly we seldom act upon the root of the problem, we only address the effects it causes.

[@ks_snuggles]

As someone who just went through my own "SMART PHONE BAD" arc last week, I realized it's not the smartphone that is bad. It is what we do on it, and really we all know said thing is social media! Switched to a tiny 3" phone (Unihertz Jelly Star), no social media (besides YT for music, tutorials, and lunch breaks), weeks worth of music stored locally, etc. I think we all really just want MP3/GPS/COMMS with a dash of browser, not these multimedia time suck machines we keep on us like weaponry.

[@ks_snuggles]

Also the "dumb phones" are expensive garbage with half baked proprietary systems. Search Lightphone GPS and have a laugh 😂

[@jameshjacksonjr]

So what steve jobs announced on stage a ipod a phone and internet communicator with no app store aka the iphone 2G launched in 2007

[@bosstuna8115]

I see this taking place, although very meekly, here in Brazil. The masses are still living the tech craze, but the middle and upper classes have begun moving away from all that urban chaos. I can see a renaissance of oldschool style devices in the near future...

[@slizeres]

I get tired of my android phone and go back to my nokia 3310 too often. Its one thing to be controlled by other people that can call you, and other thing to be controlled by your phone. I also deleted all of my social media years ago, i dont use whatsapp and i dont give my phone number to anyone. Life is more colorful when im not using a smartphone.

[@Mistrz-mw4db]

i mean whats wrong with using phone for communication with family and friends?

[@kenpanderz]

because capitalism has turned our attention into a bridge for making money and does everything it can to take as much from you as possible to make as much profit as possible, as is its purpose.

[@JSSMVCJR2.1]

Who asked you?

[@micoaruno]

"Even freedom costs periods of discipline, patience, and hard work."

[@im6804]

I stopped using my phone as much and realised how much a I enjoy it, it's like once you start eating less ultra-processed foods you stop craving them. The only thing is the convenience of having the security to know my way around, call anyone anytime, find places to eat have a clock, calculator, flashlight on hand etc. I think I'll start limiting the amount of time I spend on social media because that's really the only thing that isn't as important to me as the previously mentioned apps.

[@uninstaller2860]

The hipsters with their vinyl record collections are going to feel so vindicated

[@pibblesnbits]

World has been downhill since 2012. We will NEVER move away from smartphones at this rate. Everything requires a cellphone app....EVERYTHING! Need to pay at a parking garage, get them app. Need to pay for parking at a parking meter....get the app. Need to clock in and out at work.....get the app. Need to unlock your Tesla....get the app. Need to pay your credit card....get the app. Need to navigate somewhere...get the app (paper maps are nonexistent today). Need to manage your router....get the app. Need to respond to employer emails after work hours while on vacation...get the email app. Need to have multifactor authentication to log into ANY of your online accounts for banking, work, or school....get the authenticator app. We are doomed.

[@agentoranj5858]

I've been using a dumb phone since 2019. It never lags, it never feeds me ads, it never crashes, it's second hand but it has already lasted longer in my usage than any of my brand-new smart phones did. It does exactly what it's supposed to do as far as I'm concerned, it's other people who hate the fact that I use it because I'm not on Signal and Whatsapp with them and it doesn't have maps. Нет, телефон в порядке.

[@cyberpunk.386]

I don't wanna show off, but I never thought social media was cool. Leaving a comment on YT is as "social media" as I get. Never done FB, been 3 weeks on IG and did Twitter (formerly known as X) for a year or two.

[@joejones9520]

there is no one from my past i want to communicate with ever again other than immediate family, the idea of people being able to look me up and contact me is horrifying

[@cyberpunk.386]

@@joejones9520 Totally understand. Somewhere I read "there's nothing 'social' about social media" and it rang true with me. I do keep in touch with people outside my family but it's not via social media where a 'like' is meant to be a 'thought', or worse called 'activism'.

[@thisasadworld2528]

I started hating my mobile devices because they always glitch and lose connection even when I am connected. They do this because I exist. I wish their was a answer to fix this. That’s why I am using a computer to write this comment.

[@thisasadworld2528]

This is serious!

[@kin9julian]

As I see the situation with dumbphones and all smartphones hysteria: tech companies gave us all metaphorical fancy "shovels", but instead of digging, we all eventually started smacking them against our faces and suffering. And instead of actually digging with those shovels we are asking to make the shovels softer so it doesn't hurt so much.

[@JonatasAdoM]

The shovel is not good to dig either though, even before being made softer. How do you dig with a rubber shovel?

[@B_-.-]

I personally believe it's more like this: all phone users are digging. Some holes we're digging for our sake - one hole will help us manage our bank account, another will pull some weeds out, another will allow us to make a phone call. Many other holes we're digging because companies running apps for content consumption have created algorithims that give us places it thinks we'll dig up gold. Even if we've found nothing in the last 10 holes we'll dig an 11th in hope that the promise of gold may be true. A dumbphone is a handshovel. You can use it to dig small holes to plant a few plants or remove a few weeds but even if you could dig for gold with one, it'd take so much effort that you won't bother. Digging the holes you need will take more effort but the total amount of effort you spend digging holes is reduced because you don't waste time looking for gold that doesn't exist.

[@nearo007]

A very accurate analogy, people should just delete social media and that's it. No need to buy a shitty phone to overcome the addiction.

[@CTNATION]

Smartphones, social media, all tech and platforms were more intuitive 5-8 years ago, until everything turned into a add farm, prices for subscriptions rise, commercials are added back into everything, social media went from friends and entertainment to a ad, or ticktock shop, or sponsored post after only two or three swipes. greed and capitalisms commercial first ruins everything and ruins products every time, anything useful gets put behind a paywall, and things that used to come with the product up front are split into separate subscriptions, just like bmw trying to charge subscriptions for heated seats.

[@KeritechElectronics]

11:22 "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"

[@timonroehrbacher]

X (Twitter) is allegedly already optimizing for unregretted user time rather than solely maximizing user time.

[@seontonppa]

I just find it near impossible to trust Twitter or Elon in any way.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@seontonppa Do you in any capacity trust Apple or any other company that shapes our lives?

[@JonatasAdoM]

KZbin does this sometimes, sadly not constantly (perhaps they do it by accident). KZbin has helped me a lot. It lifts you up sometimes or allows you to be productive or useful. There are videos that are similar to meditation or reading. Others that you don't even need to watch, just listen. Not to speak of all the music it has allowed those without purchasing power to have access to. In a way evening out the wealth imbalance.

[@enricotartarotti]

Where have they shared this?

[@ThePC007]

@@JonatasAdoM Frankly, KZbin would be so much better if they gave you more control over their algorithm. I really wish they’d given users the ability to develop and distribute their own algorithms so that people could choose the one that fits them the most.

[@touge242]

I like having a gps map, ballistic computer, search functions. Still hate touchscreens. I quit facebook before IG was made

[@pansy4ramen]

I don’t think phone use will really die, i think phones are incredibly useful for contact (like messages app), music and camera, even search engines are useful in case you need to look something up. i think these are very good things to have in my opinion, but i think social media could definitely become uncool. So in my opinion, i would like to have a phone that has a decent gui and easy keyboard so i can text, and contact my family in case of emergency or need, that’s why i personally don’t think that a decent phone that has basic functions should become uncool, because it’s so essential. I’m talking to much, bye

[@stefmyt5062]

Great video! I really hadn't thought of this issue this way before, and I can see how this is a genuinely feasible future for tech and our media usage.

[@kaymann8007]

This is an overgeneralization. The typewriter revolution has been going for decades. Analog cameras picked up in the early-mid 2000s. Smoking is still cool. Nothing new here.

[@taisia_tichnowetzki]

Just found you and can't stop watching your videos. These topics are so relevant, inspiring + tasteful amazing editing. These videos take SO MICH TIME! Thank you ❤

[@nemiz195]

Sounds cliche to say but I don’t usually comment on videos however I just wanted to say that I’d love to see you cover how technology has shaped the music industry especially in the last 5-7 years. I’m saying 5 or so years cause I feel like even though streaming’s impact on music has been covered a bunch, the way social media and especially covid has affected music hasn’t been covered that much or that well at all

[@beautyneytiri]

right away when social media came around i didn't understand it. to post something publically and then to wait for people to start liking it... like WHAT ??? i STILL don't understand how that makes sense. chatting with people one on one, THAT makes sense. besides that, only youtube makes sense to me. but as you can see for yourself, i only have just over 100 subscribers on my channel after 5 years.

[@DenysAlmaral]

Wait!.... hasn't watching TikTok always been lame? XD

[@87Rado]

Still using a 4k flip phone, usually with the ringer turned off. That way it's easy to treat it like the old house phone we no longer have. I just check it when I walk past to see if anyone important has called, if they did, I call back. I miss the simpler life of the 60's & 70's.

[@timonroehrbacher]

i know a cool cafe/bar in vienna where you're not allowed to use your laptop and phone use is discouraged. this already exists in 2024

[@McFaul4]

oh cool, what is it called?

[@joejones9520]

ive never owned a smartphone and my laptop never leaves my home so when im out of the house im just like people were before the internet existed however no one pats me on the back or even cares or even notices...

[@AmberyTear]

I find KZbin format of social media to be most constructive because you can curate your own content to be longer format and truly helpful, truly informative. And a very powerful place for opposition movements in authoritarian countries. Everything in moderation.

[@psyberdelicxp6042]

I lived half my life without a smartphone, and the internet. I'll b fine. Will you? Social media was never cool. Never had it. Never will. I'm doing just fine.

[@wismuel]

intro: social media isn't the problem video: social media is the problem

[@bananasandbass]

I just bought an Apple Watch for this reason. You get all the benefits of communication and navigation and health tracking, but without any media consumption. Except music and podcasts, but you can use those while doing good things. And I’ve already noticed that I leave my phone in my bag or lose it somewhere in the house cuz you don’t need to pick it up for 80-90% of the smart things you wanna do.

[@КейВольт]

That's like quitting smoking cigarettes in favor of a crack joint, tbh. You never escaped the ecosystem, and if you don't feel like you need to - then you haven't even made a first step towards your freedom. You don't understand the core of your addiction.

[@salmiak333]

I quit FB 3 years after the hype, people thought it was a bit wierd then, but I noticed how it took away all my free time and I always prefered meeting people irl anyway, so the negatives highly outweighed the positives for me. Now all my friends seem to wake up to the same realization, finally, and I think this movement will grow as long as the optimization for timesucking continues since at one point or another it becomes obvious to people, and they get fed up.

[@someuser4166]

Problem with having these big corporations make the dumb phones is whilst they'd get rid of the addictions they would no doubt shoehorn in all their telemetry and get your location and all that. I'd rather use an old dumb phone but they're shutting down those cellular networks

[@tid418]

They have modern 4g and 5g flip phones.

[@pedrobaiao1442]

I was having the ideia of also getting back from my phone and social media, but this video made me realize how important it also is. We just gotta extract the good things, like connectings with our friends, finding new things, new ideias, new information, that’s what as also brought us here. More important than the time we spend on the internet, more than ever for me is the quality of this time, try to select to the maximum what we will see, bc the world is so beautiful that we need to see it, and media is a great way to do that. Like all things in life we just gotta find our balance

[@InternetUser999]

I love my iPhone 12 Mini and will never get rid of it, but I will be saying goodbye to all the bad apps- just as soon as my friends make the switch too.

[@royalbiscuits8442]

Every time i'm in a store they ask if I have that stores app. No... No I bloody don't.

[@joh2434]

I quit social media a couple of years ago (YT is a streaming service for me tbh) and it turns my iPhone into a pocket computer that I can manage WhatsApp/Outlook/browse the web etc

[@JonatasAdoM]

I managed to never get into it, going through the peer pressure gauntlet. It's just not how I roll. It's weird how it always follows the same curve. Everybody uses it so you should to - like a cult mentality. Over time people start coming off of it, until It inverts and now the previously holy social media is now the product of the devil that only the groups they do not relate to use now. Rinse and repeat. To me KZbin is a video/audio platform - entertainment. I never liked the concept of streaming and how it is abused. KZbin does not have this "exclusive club aura" to it. It is international and accessible to all. The only social media I ever used was Orkut, which no one knows about. We did not even know social media was a thing at the time.

[@Robbie-pc1dl]

The definition of "Social Media" Is media that involves an image or a video, with the inclusion that you can also chat with people. By this definition, Steam is also a "Social media" site. Also, from what I heard WhatsApp isn't as good as people make it out to be, but it fits in the definition of "social media", also as a whole, texting is also "social media".

[@joh2434]

@@Robbie-pc1dl social media is pretty hard to define but I’d say things like Insta/Fb/TikTok fit the definition. I live in one of the many countries outside the USA where WhatsApp is the default method of communication so I don’t have a lot of choice on that one.

[@Robbie-pc1dl]

@@joh2434 oh. That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying.

[@spaceowl5957]

@@Robbie-pc1dl I think whatsapp is different. It's just texting. It's not addictive. It's like having a conversation with a person you know in real life. But KZbin is still highly addictive in my opinion. I'm mostly addicted to Reddit and KZbin.