> Not having a smartphone is a new status symbol flex. It’s pretty much like those vegans people tend to make fun of: it’s performative. It’s humble-brag-fuelled activism that craves audience approval.
Not achieve a societal norm but facilitate everyday tasks with the many, MANY things that are THAT much easier with a smartphone. Now I get the author’s point, but there’s preferring to be off-grid (which I also tend to…
> I don't care lol. And this is precisely how I know you care.
To each their own, but this seems more like purposefully handicapping yourself (and annoying those around you) over a very much false sense of privacy or “disconnection”. If it works for you then kudos, but I personally…
> Not having a smartphone is a new status symbol flex. It’s pretty much like those vegans people tend to make fun of: it’s performative. It’s humble-brag-fuelled activism that craves audience approval.
Not achieve a societal norm but facilitate everyday tasks with the many, MANY things that are THAT much easier with a smartphone. Now I get the author’s point, but there’s preferring to be off-grid (which I also tend to…
> I don't care lol. And this is precisely how I know you care.
To each their own, but this seems more like purposefully handicapping yourself (and annoying those around you) over a very much false sense of privacy or “disconnection”. If it works for you then kudos, but I personally…