Having never had a smartphone (although, to be fully transparent, my wife does have one), I'm deriving a certain amount of amusement from the continuing rise in commentary on the health & wellbeing benefits of the 'dumb phone'.... which directly parallel my reasons for not wanting one in the first place.
@ChrisMayLA6 I can’t help feeling people would have a more balanced view of what a smart phone can be were it not for social media which (contrary to impressions given) is not the only use case. The device isn’t the evil, it’s what foolish easily obsessed people do with it.
Sure that's a fair comment.... but then again, I seem to manage pretty well without one (although as demonstrated right now, I'm clearly active on social media)
@ChrisMayLA6 If the smart phone had never been built then people would ascribe all the bad stuff stemming from internet access to the evil laptop or desktop. And before the public had access to the internet it was common to blame television or pop music. When I was a teenager discotheques and mopeds got the blame. Go back further and the root of social evil was the distribution of pamphlets. I blame coming down from the trees.
@christineburns@ChrisMayLA6 Very much so. I was young during the time when video nasties and computer games were apparently to blame. There's always something.