Ive been excluded from more and more shit lately just because I don't have a smart phone. I got a dumb phone for calls and SMS but even that is becoming inadequ

Ive been excluded from more and more shit lately just because I don't have a smart phone. I got a dumb phone for calls and SMS but even that is becoming inadequate. Even with mobile emulators many apps and signups don't actually work because there is no phone number registered to it and if I input my dumb phone number they just send me shit that I can't view to my dumb phone. Living in one of the poorest areas of the nation, I gotta save every penny I can, and a data plan that I would use once in a blue moon with garbage network service just isn't worth the cost. Not to mention the more expensive phone that will inevitably get destroyed on a job site while im climbing through rafters or jumping down in holes and shit. Google even discontinued their directions via SMS which should be a dirt cheap service to provide, so now im back to physical maps. Even the spammers now send me SMS messages I can't view. Personally, I don't want to live in a world where I am forced to perpetually be networked up and tracked and spied on everywhere I go. Yeah you can circumvent a good bit of that if you really want to, but that is even more time and pain in the ass to do for every little thing, extensively researching every little app, and jail breaking all my devices so I have some sliver of control over it, while still paying out the ass to companies and practices I do not support. There are even government apps that require a smartphone app to access now with no PC equivalent.