The Anti-Smartphone Revolution

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1. Minimising my internet usage felt like dropping a drug addiction.

   At first you feel empty or that your missing out, you feel twitchy without that dopamine hit.

   But after a week your mind is so much fresher, you’re mental health better and you feel just so much healthier.

   Great video.

2. Im still keeping it. There's an option where you can turn off the wifi or mobile data to disconnect from the internet.

3. fake news

4. Been there done that. I'm glad kids are experiencing a new thing

5. So funny, I was thinking about this a few days ago.

6. Minimize interaction with toxic social media platforms such as twitter, FB, insta, and tiktok, unless youre getting money from it

7. They need to bring back the StarTac

8. DUMB PHONE + IPAD + MC DONALDS… CHECK NEWS AND MAIL AT DINNER, ALL OTHER TIMES INTERNET INACCESSIBLE. DROP INTERNET PLAN.. THE KEY IS BEING INACCESSIBLE ..

9. You're right, a software can do the trick.
   And it's called ultra battery saver mode.

   It gives you simple apps, alongside apps you fund essential.

10. Ofus

11. They can switch to windows phones. It’s the most advanced dumb phone

12. It's not about "Smartphone" but social media addiction, people are now endlessly scrolling through facebook / instagram / twitter non stop and since the content is virtually "endless", most people (myself included) ended wasting 2-5 hours a day and become unproductive.

    simpler solution is delete all social media apps on your smartphone, keep some smart / useful apps like maps, e-wallet, QR reader, and text messaging like iMessage or Whatsapp.

13. Good narration – ironic I am watching this on my tablet

14. The way I see it, the only people who see “leaving the internet” as a revolution of sorts are those who are incredibly addicted to it. Those of us who spend less than two hours per day here (and mostly for work related reasons) and only use the internet when needed have had ordinary, perfectly working lives.

15. Don't like the notification bothering you? Switch off notifications.
    Don't like social media? Delete all social media apps.
    These are all easy steps on iOS and Android. No smartphone is "hijacking" you. You simply don't have self-control.
    Resorting back to a dumb phone that can do jack shit is just another pointless tread. These people are going to start another trend "back to smart phone" in the foreseeable future.

16. All I need on my phone is a good camera, gps, and music capability. If a phone came out with those 3 things I’d ditch my iPhone. I don’t understand smart watches for this same reason. Why would I want notifications on my wrist and a battery that needs to be charged daily? Dropping social media and the news feels fantastic. Haven’t actively used either since Covid started and it’s liberating. So many people are miserable with anxiety from social media and stress from the news. These things are often out of your control so why impose it on yourself?

17. Minimalism at best, my simple life became better and more productive when I reduced my smartphone usage and disconnecting from the internet.

18. I love technology way too much to ever go back to having a dumb phone. What the people in this video really needed was to delete their social media accounts. Got rid of mine a couple of years ago haven't looked back.

19. cell phone haters unite

20. Even simply deleting social media makes a huge difference. I still use the internet but I no longer have any social media apps. That alone has gone a long way in improving my mental well being.

21. Nokia: My time to rise again has come

22. Its absurd to me that people still keep their phones on anything besides silent

23. Turn off your notifications…it’s that simple

24. People have forgotten how to read road maps because of smart phones.

25. this is stupid.. it all depends on which URL a person enters.

26. I've not upgraded my phone since 2015, and it's permanently on "do not disturb"

27. The problem is not dumb phone, the problem is how people blame the smartphone. Uninstall / disable social media apps and apps that you dont need and voila you have a better "dumb phone"

28. This whole video is a long drawn out waste of tine,

29. What an odd way of stopping away from social media. Some people like to make their lives pointlessly difficult. Just remove the social media apps from your smartphone and have the same freeing experience without pretending you’re part of a new movement.

30. She could have removed the sounds from her phone, turned off notifications.. Maybe she may go back, but will know what she can do without..

31. Keep social media posting and notifications to an absolute minimum, other than that the smartphone is 100x more capable, efficient and convenient compared to the absolutely obsolete and completely useless dumb phone or brick phone which is and should be a relic.
    I can have up to 100 notifications from social media and I have no incentive to look at them outside of important updates.

32. For me… uhh… eliminating phones/video games/etc can eliminate distraction, but only from external sources. You will soon find new ones.

33. My Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has extreme power saving mode. It turns the screen black and white, and you can only call or text someone. Closest mode to dumb phone.

34. Buy a smart phone – turn off the notifications. Don't download apps.
    Use it as dumbphone unless you need a smartphone featur ..ie camera , maps for driving, qr codes etc…

35. I don’t get it and i don’t advice it, just delete toxic stuff insta tik fb apps! Gettin urself out of loop, will make u more isolated and most jobs require apps like zoom slack email… this is weird

36. I’ve periodically switched out my phone for a month over a decade.

    One of the things I noticed is if you ever need an answer to something you can’t just search it.
    Other than that the main thing I missed was my music.

    I’ve noticed a resurgence in film cameras

    I think people like having purposeful devices such as a phone thats just that.

    Ultimately for me I got a cheaper smart phone that just does what I need. iPhoneSE it’s primarily for music to me and I set up focus so when I’m at work only certain notifications come through if I’m gonna be at a meal or something where my attention is required I turn on DND.
    Basically just being more conscious of what I do and how I use my time

37. If I didn't have most of my friends on opposite corners of the world, I would ditch my smartphone on a heartbeat

38. You don't need a new phone. Just don't pay for data.

39. It seems like a bit of an extreme move, when 100% of the toxicity on the internet is the fault of social media. The sensible move would be quitting social media, not trying to quit something that's become so deeply ingrained in living in modern society. This strikes me as the modern version of those pseudo-intellectuals who bragged about not owning a TV.

40. I am addicted to YouTube. I can admit it at least.

41. True

42. Thumbs up if you got an advertisement for Samsung while watching this video! I know I did!

43. I think is just better to have an e-ink phone. Or a second cheap android phone with a minimalistic Launcher and no social media apps.

44. During the Canada-wide internet and debit-card system outage 2 weeks ago I noticed that our cell phone (the only phone of any type that we own), which I had fully charged Thursday night, remained at a full 100% charge all day Friday and into Saturday. We're with Virgin Mobile so we weren't affected by the outages but normally our phone's battery loses power by about 15%-20% each day just by being turned on even if we don't use it at all. I'm wondering if perhaps the network outages disrupted the same networks which the government uses to spy on people through their phone. Perhaps our phone used NO battery power that day because it wasn't sending any info out to the spying centers. This was the first and only time I had ever had any cell phone use NO battery power throughout a whole day. After a week our phone still had a 51% charge. This is unheard of. I'm certain that the disruption caused the breakdown of the spying network that the government uses to spy on us through our phones. Perhaps, this spying network was the real target of the take-down of the network.

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