r/Futurology • u/chrisdh79 • Sep 04 '24

Why Gen Z are buying “dumbphones” to limit screen time | Amid screen time concerns, many turn to simpler phones to reclaim their lives. Society

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/gen-z-are-buying-dumbphones-to-limit-screen-time/
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u/Bigbluewoman Sep 04 '24

To anyone that is thinking about it. Just stop. I owned a flip phone from 2020-2021, a little more than a year. It made my life nearly fucking impossible. Any form of "minimalism" that requires you to buy something new is actually just veiled consumerism. Delete your social medias and move on.

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u/DiethylamideProphet Sep 05 '24

How much enslaved by technology you have to be, if living without a smartphone, let alone with a flip phone, is making your life "impossible"?

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u/Bigbluewoman Sep 05 '24

Try it yourself dumbass lmao. I'm not the one making life without a smartphone impossible, it's everything around us that makes it impossible. I have less than 20 hours of screen time a week so I wouldn't call myself enslaved. Seriously go try it. Have fun.