Mandaris
- What is your relationship with your phone? Does it make you happy or sad? Do you get a new one frequently or infrequently?
When the iPhone first came out, it was the only material possession that I wanted. It had the promise of being everything that I could technically want in one device in my pocket. I wasn’t able to afford it at the time, most people weren’t as it was $600 dollars and I was expecting my first child.
I later got one, but it has never really made me happy
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I’ve been content to be able to while away hours playing games and surfing the internet.
I’m grateful when it give me correct information about traffic and weather.
I do get enjoyment from taking and looking at pictures and I think that is the closest that I come from being happy about the phone.
Because it has come with costs that I didn’t expect.
Interruptions from telemarketers.
Things claiming to be news but advertisements about things that I have no interest in.
Time that I should have been paying attention to other things but was concentrated on my screen.
It’s a complicated feeling and is part of why I don’t get a new one frequently.
