I Tried To Kill My Smartphone Addiction With A Dumb Phone. Here's How It Went. | Business Insider

You tried it for, what, five hours? No way you can draw any conclusions. Do it for a week and don't have your smartphone available as a backup. Mail it to an out of town friend. Alcoholics can drink ginger ale for an afternoon too. That doesn't mean they've kicked their addiction, nor would they think abstaining for a few hours would do anything at all to "kill" their addiction. Kudos to you for using yourself as a social experiment, though.

....you tried for 3 hours 🤷

Yes, moving your personal dependencies from one device to another is not smart.

Technology is only as smart as its user. sorry much love

If it bothers you that much......delete the app!

The phone is only as smart as its user. If you use the phone 8+ hours a day, you have a problem.

Using the credit card is old fashioned?

She did not even try

Jheez…it might not be on a dumb phone but audiobooks on the train should cut some screen time

Damn four hours?

Whoa, that phone was $90? The smartphone I'm watching this video on was $35 (refurbished). That's wild. I get it, it does look cute and if you're looking for a way to wean off of smartphone addiction, it might work, but the experience seems so much worse. It would probably take some serious effort and more time to change your behavior, all while smartphones are so ubiquitous.

I still have a original UNPACKED nokia 3310. I wonder what I can get for that :P

I'm thinking about going back to something close to normal. Hopefully, it is free of EM radiation.

13 percent again 😂

There's no dumb/smartphone. It's a matter of the ones who use it.

Here is a crazy idea, rather than getting dumb phone, uninstall waster apps. You will not be scrolled through TikTok if you don't have the app. Same with social media and games. You know, treat a smart phone just a productivity/communication device, not a play thing. Also, $90 is kind of nuts and with $55 plan. You can buy a burner for way cheaper. Frankly, I am on pixel 6a that is right on swappa for $118. And there are way cheaper prepaid plans with super low data. Going dumb phone is like rather than learning self-control that will be useful your whole life, you are taking the dumb route, and making your day to day life harder. Like, to control TikTok use, I'll force myself to give up ride sharing apps. Why?

Oh no, dumbphone doesnt have smartphone features 🤯

incredibly low quality video for 9M subs

Dumb phones are bad at being smartphones, duh. The idea is to become a dumb-phone user. Carry a paper map, ask the restaurant for a paper menu, text "just the facts ma'am". Entertain your self with our deluxe reality.

The dumb phone is a tool, and if you don't use the tool as intended, or grab a different tool by choice, then you don't get the benefit of the tool.