My father is said to have forced the popularity of the stupid phone. I hear him say: “You see that I was far ahead of my time.”
You can still call?
But of course it wasn’t that way, he didn’t go with the times. Found it not necessary to find the way with the help of Google Maps, paid old school With his debit card, all communication ignored via WhatsApp groups – “you can call, right?” – and did not see the useful apps at all. That he only used his phone to call was sometimes cumbersome and awkward, but according to him there was nothing wrong.
Dumbphone
And more and more people are discovering that now. Because the dumbphone, or the simple phone with only the basic functions, is completely from now on. Young people embrace this phone because they have finished distracting social media, the notifications, games and therefore screen times that are shocked every week. The pressure of the digital world means that they are increasingly longing for digital detoxification.
Digital detox
Earlier this year, research by Snapchat showed that 70 percent of the generation Gen Z regularly ignores the smartphone. They opt for social media detoxes or for the purchase of a dumbphone, with which they can only call and send an SMS.
And that phone, and even the featurephones that now conquer the market and can do something more, look like my father’s nostalgic Nokia in everything. I am still fully addicted to my iPhone, but I am already looking for those hip bakers that I still have somewhere in a drawer.
Do you think the telephone addiction got out of hand and is high time for the dumbphone or is it too late for that and you can no longer without your smartphone? Mail your response to [email protected]