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What about people who use smartphones for socialising? Staying in touch with friends, finding new interesting people, browsing local events, deciding where to

• Swizec 4y ago
  With the kind of friends who won’t leave you alone for 2 hours to focus on something important, who needs enemies?
• skydhash 4y ago
  Browsing through my distractions websites- HN, Twitter, Reddit, Dilbert - only take me about 15 minutes to note everything interesting. I do that thrice a day, and it’s more than enough.
• rlayton2 4y ago
  Ultimately, if you are using the smartphone for a deliberate purpose, that's probably fine. Looking up a recipe, contacting a loved one, reading an ebook. The problem is when you are just "on the phone", not really doing anything, not anything you planned to do, and not really getting anything done. Even this can be fine, as long as you go "I'd like to see whats on twitter for half an hour", rather than just opening things up and doing them because the algorithm pulls you in.
• vorpalhex 4y ago
  Do that in the other 22 hours of the day that isn't dinner. There's nothing wrong with smartphones per se. It's that the smartphones become a crutch to avoid socializing in person. All the excuses come out to prevent that crutch from being removed.