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I don't know if it is the phone. The iPhone was released when I was in high school and before buying one it was very stressful knowing there might be emails I

I don't know if it is the phone. The iPhone was released when I was in high school and before buying one it was very stressful knowing there might be emails I really need to respond to asap, but I can't even know if they exist. With physical mail it didn't matter since there were big delays and no expectations of fast responses. I don't think the phone is the issue, but the bad habit of signing up for services that will give you notifications the importance of which is impossible to tell until you've checked (is this a like on a photo or an important message from a relative?)

workthrowaway 7y ago
> ...I was in high school and before buying one it was very stressful knowing there might be emails I really need to respond to asap that's an interesting anecdote. it was the opposite experience for me. friends and i had yahoo and hotmail emails back then but no one cared about sending emails or replying to them. yahoo messenger and msn messenger were the reason those were created. i can't recall anyone stressing about it because the person you'd be messaging was with you most of the time...
- tapland 7y ago
  It's because I wasn't using technology solely to communicate with real life friends, but moderating various forums and running my modchip business. Of course someone who doesn't use a near-instant messaging service and knows that messages can't arrive anyway wouldn't stress about having it available.