throw away your smartphone!!!!

title is hyperbolic but my point stands.

for at least a year now i've been so so sick of modern social media, i was always sucked into The Endless Scroll and it was having really bad effects on my mental health. i was especially addicted to instagram and constantly had the compulsion to open it and scroll and scroll and scroll and

in about february i decided to try and combat this by switching my main phone to an old nokia i had from about 2017. i switched my sim card and left the house with no smartphone.

this has revolutionised my life!!!!!! you'd be surprised how much stuff some of these 'dumb' phones can do while still keeping to the basics. i find i'm slowly gaining back my attention span, i'm becoming more confident in public and i just feel overall happier. (i think i'll make other blog posts going more into detail about these)

i've been exclusively using a dumb phone when i leave the house for about 5 months now and i don't see myself going back to using a smartphone full time. i use my smartphone at home a lot mostly to talk to my friends but i want to try and still cut down on my usage at home too.

so i guess the moral of the story is maybe don't throw away your smartphone but put it in a drawer and try a dumb phone!