Overwhelmed by your smartphone? Try a boring phone

被你的智能手机淹没了吗? 尝试无聊的手机

Life Kit

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2024-07-30

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Your phone is designed to suck you in. You might use it to check the weather or look up directions, only to find yourself doomscrolling on social media. If you're worried about your screen time or find it difficult to unplug, switching to a simple phone could help, says Jose Briones, author of Low Tech Life. Devoid of distracting apps and features, these phones are basic and boring — which is exactly what you might want in a device you carry around all day. In a previous version of the audio of this episode, the app WhatsApp was mentioned. We did not previously disclose that WhatsApp is a sponsor of NPR. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.

  • I am in a constant battle with my phone.

  • Cause I don't want to live inside of a device, right?

  • I want to live in the world among the trees and the sky and the people.

  • Okay, only sometimes the people, but I, like so many of us, spend so many hours scrolling through stuff on my phone.

  • And often it starts like this.

  • I pick up the phone to look at something for work.

  • I see.

  • Oh, my friend texted, oh, I have an email.

  • And then I'm sucked into a black hole.

  • That's the allure of smartphones.

  • It's essentially, you went to your smartphone, you open it up to do something, and you end up doing something else.

  • And it's hard to quit because my phone plays so many roles in my life.

  • It delivers messages.

  • It's my alarm clock, my gps, my camera.