Comment on I hate my phone so I got rid of it
kitnaht@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How about uh…stop using social media? I barely ever touch my smartphone, I only use it for E2E encrypted messaging apps, email, and maybe the occasional phone call.
You don’t need to get rid of the phone to do this shit.
immutable@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Yea this is my problem with this video.
It’s a pretty good video and the creator gets so close to figuring out that he doesn’t hate his phone, he hates social media.
It’s an interesting video from the point of view that it kinda makes this argument over and over.
He ends up realizing how much happier he is without having the ability to just pull his phone out and go on twitter anytime he is bored. So just delete twitter?
All the benefits of his experiment can be had by just getting rid of social media apps and all the inconveniences can go away.
I really wanted this video to end with him putting those two bits together. But instead he just goes “well back to using a phone and it making me miserable” and as the viewer I’m just thinking “what was the point of all this then?! You learned a lesson, you gained a valuable insight about yourself as a person, and now just nothing. Just ‘cool insight, no need to act on that though’ seriously?!”
undefinedValue@programming.dev 1 week ago
As someone who’s already off social media (lemmy doesn’t count), I watched it and came to the conclusion I can still change my relationship with my phone. Uninstalled every game I had on it and any apps I haven’t used in a while. Aside from that, I also went into any apps that remained that were B tier in importance and removed their notifications permissions. No more spam tyvm.