Somehow I don't recall peoples carrying a phone around everywhere with them in the 70s or 80s. And no one seemed the worse for it. But now… Hoe Lee Shit!!! If you ain't 24 hour "connected" you're missing out on all life's benefits.
And if they loose that phone… their world ends.
So pathetic.
Everyone gets all aroused at learning how to "use" these new technologies.
I'm busy learning how to ignore it; how to do with less of it.
FWIW...kids...if you lose your precious "phone" you can replace it - and once it's logged into the AI datacenters, all that you had on it, will be right there.
I had gotten a dummphone for a time - unfortunately, it was DELIBERATELY engineered to not work well. The network I'm on, would NOT ALLOW better dumbphones to be connected. They would work - but their pawns in the "retail" office were forbidden to plug the third-party phones (new from Bust Buy) in. I know; I tried.
So I had to deal with the one garbage dumbphone with a so-soft ringer, and a lousy key pad. For a year I tried to make it work.
Then I gave up and got the cheapest non-Sammyung, non-Fruit-Company phone I could.
No data transfer from the dummphone.
But...in two days, all my record from my obsoleted Fruit Company phone of two years earlier, MAGICALLY APPEARED. Even my (small amount of) search history.
They push that garbage because they track your every act. All your text. All your photo history - remember, when you take a photo with one...every government in the world now can see it with a few clicks. I limit my cameras to signs with phone numbers on it, serial numbers, photos of computer screens (no surf on the phone). Generic stuff. Not even any selfies, of any sort.