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I think you're exactly right, and the groundwork is being laid today by the standards society is setting for everybody. People will assume a lack of phone or th

by sjw987 1y ago

I think you're exactly right, and the groundwork is being laid today by the standards society is setting for everybody. People will assume a lack of phone or the presence of a phone but lack of usage / content on it, makes you guilty of some sort of crime similar to owning a burner phone. Tell somebody you use your phone less than 10 minutes a day and look at their face change.

thewebguyd 1y ago
> Tell somebody you use your phone less than 10 minutes a day and look at their face change. While not less than 10 minutes per day for me, but I was having this argument on reddit over the iPhone Air - people couldn't fathom that there's someone out there that is not on their phone 24/7, and doesn't use their phone as their main computing device. I clock in at under an hour screen time most days. It's the least ergonomic device for me to do anything remotely serious. Can't even stand typing on a virtual keyboard. My laptop is, and will remain, my main interface to the net and communication with others. You'd think I was some kind of weird hermit luddite because of it.
- sjw987 1y ago
  I've found the divide between people who switched to using a phone full time and people who still use physical peripheral based computers (even for recreational activity) is generally linked with whether the person is a digital productive/consumerist type person. Nobody is coding or writing anything longer than an email or social media post on a virtual keyboard. The average screen time for younger people borders on 7 hours. It's almost a third of the day or 40% of the woken day for most people. I still can't wrap my head around how that can even be possible, but then I see in public most people you look at in any given moment are reading, watching or sending/sharing something. If the conspiracy theorists are right, the tech industry created a surveillance system beyond their wildest dreams.
vikarti 1y ago
Scroogled, by Cory Doctorow comes to mind.

by sjw987 1y ago

thewebguyd 1y ago

> Tell somebody you use your phone less than 10 minutes a day and look at their face change. While not less than 10 minutes per day for me, but I was having this argument on reddit over the iPhone Air - people couldn't fathom that there's someone out there that is not on their phone 24/7, and doesn't use their phone as their main computing device. I clock in at under an hour screen time most days. It's the least ergonomic device for me to do anything remotely serious. Can't even stand typing on a virtual keyboard. My laptop is, and will remain, my main interface to the net and communication with others. You'd think I was some kind of weird hermit luddite because of it.

sjw987 1y ago
I've found the divide between people who switched to using a phone full time and people who still use physical peripheral based computers (even for recreational activity) is generally linked with whether the person is a digital productive/consumerist type person. Nobody is coding or writing anything longer than an email or social media post on a virtual keyboard. The average screen time for younger people borders on 7 hours. It's almost a third of the day or 40% of the woken day for most people. I still can't wrap my head around how that can even be possible, but then I see in public most people you look at in any given moment are reading, watching or sending/sharing something. If the conspiracy theorists are right, the tech industry created a surveillance system beyond their wildest dreams.

vikarti 1y ago

Scroogled, by Cory Doctorow comes to mind.