But, but, if I didn’t have a phone I would never get to read great articles like this, that tell me how bad it is to read great articles like this on my phone.
Thank you for this post, Clare! I think we've been tiptoeing around the obvious for way too long, and I appreciate you putting this message out there. Would love you to be on my podcast so we can chat more about this. I'll send you an email! =)
People on the other side of the debate call this the STOE. Smartphone theory of everything. I am somewhere in the middle. I am elderly and live alone so the phone is a safety device. (Yes I know about key fob panic buttons. ) It also keeps me connected to ideas though I prefer my laptop. I also travel often to places without a signal so I get downtime. I do get anxious then which is a point in your favor. But it doesn't stop me from doing it. I am resistant to clickbait preferring long form content like this. In fact, I have gravitated more towards long form recently. Obviously, I am a non-native to online life having spent my childhood and young to middle adulthood before it happened. So perhaps my brain is still wired the old way. I can see a risk to children and think early use should be rationed just as I rationed TV for my children.
We have a reproduction candlestick phone with an attached bluetooth device, so you can link your cell phone to the landline phone and park it on the shelf, while still being able to receive calls at home.
But, but, if I didn’t have a phone I would never get to read great articles like this, that tell me how bad it is to read great articles like this on my phone.
Life is hard. And then you die.
Thank you for this post, Clare! I think we've been tiptoeing around the obvious for way too long, and I appreciate you putting this message out there. Would love you to be on my podcast so we can chat more about this. I'll send you an email! =)
People on the other side of the debate call this the STOE. Smartphone theory of everything. I am somewhere in the middle. I am elderly and live alone so the phone is a safety device. (Yes I know about key fob panic buttons. ) It also keeps me connected to ideas though I prefer my laptop. I also travel often to places without a signal so I get downtime. I do get anxious then which is a point in your favor. But it doesn't stop me from doing it. I am resistant to clickbait preferring long form content like this. In fact, I have gravitated more towards long form recently. Obviously, I am a non-native to online life having spent my childhood and young to middle adulthood before it happened. So perhaps my brain is still wired the old way. I can see a risk to children and think early use should be rationed just as I rationed TV for my children.
We have a reproduction candlestick phone with an attached bluetooth device, so you can link your cell phone to the landline phone and park it on the shelf, while still being able to receive calls at home.