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Sounds a wee bit crazy, but I am serious. Now, I am not fully justifying his reasonings, but I also will not sit here and say I was a golden child. However,,, With how often my phone was taken away as a Kid, I really think it helped me become less dependent on it. I typically leave my phone at home if I am out being social (and my boyfriend brings his, you know, for emergency). During those times, it helped me gain other hobbies of the internet, like offline games on consoles, drawing, painting, writing, hell anything creative, I was trying to figure out a way to do it. That has helped me gain more interest in continuing that instead of doom-scrolling. So, in a way, thanks dad!
4d ago
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recent mental health booster I stumbled onto when my phone ended up dead one morning, so I went to a cafe near me to journal/read for a couple hours without it. there were so many times I phantom reached for my it like the addict I am, very glad I couldn’t that day or else stupid things would have been done. I was forced to sit in the moment and process my thoughts without being able to actively do anything or contact anyone. did it the next day purposely and I had such a good day.
leave your phone at home sometimes when you’re bumming around your area doing small errands! also forces you to learn your surroundings rather than relying on google maps.
Jan 30, 2025
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I realized last month that I had basically developed the habit of ALWAYS looking at my phone. Walking around the house, brushing my teeth, eating, etc. I always had my phone out. I’ve removed a lot of social media apps from my phone, which helped, but the biggest game changer for me is just abandoning my phone upstairs or in another room.
Reading a lot more, staying more focused, playing more fetch with my dog, life is good 😎
Feb 25, 2025
I’ve converted to a flip phone and it’s honestly so fun lol. I think the way we have access to everything, and everyone, in milliseconds is rotting our brains and making us such an entitled society; entitled to other people’s time and energy on demand, their lives, business, etc. but I also think the way we get sucked in with links from app to app, ads, videos, and doomscrolling, everything is designed to be addictive and it leads (at least for me) to less productivity and more procrastination. I think having to work just a little harder, even to do something as simple as research something, can be good for us.
So what I’ve done is essentially converted my iPhone to a wifi connected iPod touch like from the old days. I’ve left on certain apps like FaceTime, banking apps, Spotify, kindle app, I kept this one to use occasionally and all my saved recipes on my phone of course, etc. but I leave it in my room and just use it in the morning or before bed for reading or checking emails, music for working out, stuff like that, and leave it at home for everything else.
Screen time of course is way down which is nice, it’s also really nice to not feel like I constantly need to be checking something, opening a message on an app, etc. I also have found so far and think it will continue to help me not spend so much money impulsively on things I don’t actually need.
Aside from all of the benefits, I think in general I just find it funny and all of my friends think it’s hilarious lol. I’ll have to figure out what I’ll do for airports, maybe bring the old iPhone with me, connect to airport wifi, scan boarding passes with it. I’ll figure that out when I get there.
Feb 26, 2025
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I see you posting, I love seeing you posting, I hope you love me seeing your little post
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It's just soo cozy, all I wanna do is make some coffee and paint but nooo work beccons me
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Omg GOD,,,, The last persons disography that ive liked this much was Billie Eilish,, I hope he gets HUGE
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