DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WikiHow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WikiHow</span></a> - How to Beat an Addiction to Cell Phones: Tips to Get Off Your Phone </p><p>What to do if you think you have a phone addiction</p><p>Co-authored by Tiffany Douglass, MA and Aly Rusciano<br>Last Updated: March 19, 2025 </p><p>"How do you stop being addicted to your phone?</p><p> - Schedule when and how long you can use your phone.<br> - Turn off notifications for apps and social media.<br> - Put your phone somewhere you can’t access it.<br> - Replace phone habits with new hobbies or constructive activities.<br> - Ask your loved ones for support to keep you accountable."</p><p>Learn more:<br><a href="https://www.wikihow.com/Beat-an-Addiction-to-Cell-Phones" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wikihow.com/Beat-an-Addiction-</span><span class="invisible">to-Cell-Phones</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechAddiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmartPhoneAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmartPhoneAddiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LessScreenTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LessScreenTime</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpendTimeInNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpendTimeInNature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheLudditeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheLudditeClub</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p>Should we add "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SkinJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SkinJobs</span></a>" and "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toasters</span></a>" and "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GoRustYourself" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoRustYourself</span></a>" to this list?</p><p>How ‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Clanker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Clanker</span></a>’ Became the Internet’s New Favorite Slur</p><p>New derogatory phrases are popping up online, thanks to a cultural pushback against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p><p>by CT Jones, August 6, 2025</p><p>"Clanker. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wireback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wireback</span></a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cogsucker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cogsucker</span></a>. People are feeling the inescapable inevitability of AI developments, the encroaching of the digital into everything from entertainment to work. And their answer? Slurs. </p><p>"AI is everywhere — on Google summarizing search results and siphoning web traffic from digital publishers, on social media platforms like Instagram, X, and Facebook, adding misleading context to viral posts, or even powering <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NaziChatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaziChatbots</span></a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LargeLanguageModels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LargeLanguageModels</span></a> — AI trained on huge datasets — are being used as therapists, consulted for medical advice, fueling spiritual psychosis, directing self-driving cars, and churning out everything from college essays to cover letters to breakup messages. </p><p>"Alongside this deluge is a growing sense of discontent from people fearful of artificial intelligence stealing their jobs, and worried what effect it may have on future generations — losing important skills like media <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/literacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literacy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProblemSolving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProblemSolving</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CognitiveFunction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CognitiveFunction</span></a>. This is the world where the popularity of AI and robot slurs has skyrocketed, being thrown at everything from ChatGPT servers to delivery drones to automated customer service representatives. Rolling Stone spoke with two language experts who say the rise in robot and AI slurs does come from a kind of cultural pushback against AI development, but what’s most interesting about the trend is that it uses one of the only tools AI can’t create: slang </p><p>" '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slang</span></a> is moving so fast now that an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> trained on everything that happened before it is not going to have immediate access to how people are using a particular word now,' says Nicole Holliday, associate professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley. 'Humans [on] <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UrbanDictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UrbanDictionary</span></a> are always going to win.' "</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/clanker-cogsucker-robot-ai-slurs-viral-1235401262/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rollingstone.com/culture/cultu</span><span class="invisible">re-features/clanker-cogsucker-robot-ai-slurs-viral-1235401262/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/ku2Uw" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/ku2Uw</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BattlestarGalactica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BattlestarGalactica</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIResistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AISucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AISucks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeoLuddites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeoLuddites</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LudditeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LudditeClub</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmartPhoneAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmartPhoneAddiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AreYouAlive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AreYouAlive</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AreYouHuman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AreYouHuman</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Some great ideas here!</p><p>9 Easy Nature Based Learning Techniques That Inspire Students</p><p>"The benefits of nature based learning include improved <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SensoryAwareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SensoryAwareness</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/observation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>observation</span></a> skills, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriticalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalThinking</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StressManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StressManagement</span></a>, risk assessment, empathy & emotional intelligence, and many other valuable life success skills."</p><p>Learn more:<br><a href="https://nature-mentor.com/nature-based-learning/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nature-mentor.com/nature-based</span><span class="invisible">-learning/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NatureBasedLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NatureBasedLearning</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechAddiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmartphoneAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmartphoneAddiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TeachingWithNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeachingWithNature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NatureImmersion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NatureImmersion</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoreGreen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CitizenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CitizenScience</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From 2021: Guide to the Growing World of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NatureBasedLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NatureBasedLearning</span></a></p><p>“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books.”<br>John Lubbock</p><p>Excerpt: "Inspired by the Scandinavian embrace of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OutdoorLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OutdoorLearning</span></a>, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForestSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForestSchool</span></a> movement migrated to the UK in the 1990s and has grown strongly ever since. In the US, the first nature-based preschool, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewCanaanNatureCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewCanaanNatureCenter</span></a>, opened in 1967 in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Connecticut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Connecticut</span></a>. The pace of nature-based preschools was gradual until, many say, after the publication of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RichardLouv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RichardLouv</span></a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LastChildInTheWoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LastChildInTheWoods</span></a> in 2005. Soon after, the growth of these schools went wild, experiencing a 25-fold increase over the past decade.</p><p>"Around the world, the forest school movement has also been growing strong. Whether you find forest schools in the UK, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BushKindys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BushKindys</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/waldkindergarten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>waldkindergarten</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoriNoIe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoriNoIe</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a>, forest schools can be found in dozens of countries as parents and caretakers seek out the benefits of nature for their children, particularly for the early childhood years." </p><p><a href="https://www.childhoodbynature.com/guide-to-the-growing-world-of-nature-based-learning/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">childhoodbynature.com/guide-to</span><span class="invisible">-the-growing-world-of-nature-based-learning/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stewardship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stewardship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NaturalWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalWorld</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LearningThrougNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LearningThrougNature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechAddiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmartPhoneAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmartPhoneAddiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenTime</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>"It’s really important for a kid to be left alone"- When <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TaikaWaititi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TaikaWaititi</span></a> made his feelings clear about the role of tech in children's lives</p><p>By Sourav Chakraborty<br>Modified May 03, 2025 04:54 GMT</p><p>" 'Exactly, now they’ve all got iPads and it’s done for them! I think it’s really important for a kid to be left alone and left to figure it out for themselves how to pass the time. As a kid, I spent so much time bored and coming up with ideas of how to do things, so I’d write stories or I’d draw pictures or invent worlds through drawing or just in my head, just thinking about things. I think that a lot of my creativity has really come from being bored.' " [SO TRUE!!!]</p><p><a href="https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/movies/it-s-really-important-kid-left-alone-when-taika-waititi-made-feelings-clear-role-tech-children-s-life" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sportskeeda.com/us/movies/it-s</span><span class="invisible">-really-important-kid-left-alone-when-taika-waititi-made-feelings-clear-role-tech-children-s-life</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmartphoneAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmartphoneAddiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechIsDumbingUsDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechIsDumbingUsDown</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Imagination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Imagination</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LudditeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LudditeClub</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeoLuddites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeoLuddites</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Luddites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Luddites</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LessScreenTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LessScreenTime</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreBoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoreBoardGames</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreGreenTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoreGreenTime</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreOutdoorTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoreOutdoorTime</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FlipPhones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FlipPhones</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoreBooks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Smartphones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Smartphones</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechAddiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurnOffYourPhone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurnOffYourPhone</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BePresent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BePresent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThinkForYourself" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThinkForYourself</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistTheMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistTheMachine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSmartphonesForKids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoSmartphonesForKids</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Should young kids have <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/smartphones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smartphones</span></a>? These parents in Europe linked arms and said no</p><p>By JOSEPH WILSON and LAURIE KELLMAN<br>June 21, 2024</p><p>BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — "Try saying 'no' when a child asks for a smartphone. What comes after, parents everywhere can attest, begins with some variation of: 'Everyone has one. Why can’t I?'</p><p>"But what if no <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreTeen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreTeen</span></a> in sight has one — and what if having a smartphone was weird? That’s the endgame of an increasing number of parents across <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> who are concerned by evidence that smartphone use among young kids jeopardizes their safety and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a> — and share the conviction that there’s strength in numbers.</p><p>"From <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spain</span></a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a>, parents are flooding WhatsApp and Telegram groups with plans not just to keep smartphones out of schools, but to link arms and refuse to buy young kids the devices before — or even into — their teenage years.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"'When I started this, I just hoped I would find four other families who thought like me, but it took off and kept growing, growing and growing,' García Permanyer says. 'My goal was to try to join forces with other parents so we could push back the point when smartphones arrive. I said, ‘I am going to try so that my kids are not the only ones who don’t have one.'</p><p>"It isn’t just parents. Police and public health experts were sounding the alarm about a spike of violent and pornographic videos being witnessed by children via handheld devices. Spain’s government took note of the momentum and banned smartphones entirely from elementary schools in January. Now they can only be turned on in high school, which starts at age 12, if a teacher deems it necessary for an educational activity.</p><p>"'If we adults are addicted to smartphones, how can we give one to a 12-year-old who doesn’t have the ability to handle it?' García Permanyer asks. 'This has gotten away from us. If the Internet were a safe space for children, then it would be fine. But it isn’t.'</p><p>"The movement in Britain gained steam this year after the mother of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey, who was killed by two teenagers last year, began demanding that kids under 16 be blocked from accessing social media on smartphones.</p><p>"'It feels like we all know (buying smartphones) is a bad decision for our kids, but that the social norm has not yet caught up,' Daisy Greenwell, a Suffolk, England-area mother of three kids under age 10, posted to her Instagram earlier this year. 'What if we could switch the social norm so that in our school, our town, our country, it was an odd choice to make to give your child a smartphone at 11? What if we could hold off until they’re 14, or 16?'" </p><p>Full article:<br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/kids-smartphones-ban-parents-pledge-safety-europe-a96775a16ba131d2cc50b27b5096fe8b?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/kids-smartp</span><span class="invisible">hones-ban-parents-pledge-safety-europe-a96775a16ba131d2cc50b27b5096fe8b?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmartphoneAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmartphoneAddiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ScreenAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScreenAddiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MentalHealthCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealthCrisis</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The only thing that made me get rid of my dumbphone is that it wasn't going to work after 3G was shut down. I may switch back to one again...</p><p>The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dumbphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dumbphone</span></a> Boom Is Real<br> <br>A burgeoning cottage industry caters to beleaguered <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/smartphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smartphone</span></a> users desperate to escape their screens.</p><p>By Kyle Chayka<br>April 10, 2024</p><p>"Will Stults spent too much time on his iPhone, doom-scrolling the site formerly known as Twitter and tweeting angrily at Elon Musk as if the billionaire would actually notice. Stults’s partner, Daisy Krigbaum, was addicted to Pinterest and YouTube, bingeing videos on her iPhone before going to sleep. Two years ago, they both tried Apple’s Screen Time restriction tool and found it too easy to disable, so the pair decided to trade out their iPhones for more low-tech devices. They’d heard about so-called dumbphones, which lacked the kinds of bells and whistles—a high-resolution screen, an app store, a video camera—that made smartphones so addictive. But they found the process of acquiring one hard to navigate. </p><p>"'The information on it was kind of disparate and hard to get to. A lot of people who know the most about dumbphones spend the least time online,' Krigbaum said. A certain irony presented itself: figuring out a way to be less online required aggressive online digging."</p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-dumbphone-boom-is-real?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/culture/infinite</span><span class="invisible">-scroll/the-dumbphone-boom-is-real?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmartphoneAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmartphoneAddiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ScreenAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScreenAddiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DumbingUsDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DumbingUsDown</span></a></p>
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