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50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #41

  1. 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.

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.

Hollie Baggins-Kenobi

I kind of wish I didn’t have one. I do, because it’s what keeps me in this ecosystem that exists with my family (we all have one). But at the same time, I resent how necessary it is in this world, and I wish I didn’t need it. I wish I had a dumb phone that just did regular telephone function, maps, and texts. I’d even carry an iPod or such around as an extra device, happily.

Mandaris Moore

@hollie I feel that way sometimes as well. I’ve heard of a couple people doing something like that.

Hollie Baggins-Kenobi

Yeah I’ve heard of people “making smart phones dumb”, just deleting all the apps and keeping only the bare essentials. This might be a perfect winter afternoon project.

Simon Woods

@hollie I have stripped down my phone for personal use. It has worked out well.

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