About Being Against the Internet

I understand you!! It's really scary how it's almost impossible to live in society without using social media and the internet these days. I actually ended up trading my reasonably good cell phone for a 2011 flip phone and started using social media only at home on my laptop, and. I was teased a LOT by my friends, they really don't understand that this was my choice, etc. I also felt better when I found this group and this site as a whole. 

I'm tired of modern life.

I get you! For me now its gotten worse since graduating high school as uni requires verification software and I needed a new iphone as my old one was too old to download the app. And with work, if I want to pick up shifts I need messenger and all these apps now. So impractical and stressful to need to have a phone on you at all times. Often now when I leave to go to the shops or small trips I don't bring my phone and my friends and family are used to it now.

Tip: You can block everyone who is not a contact.

I'm not on any of the popular social media platforms (unless you count tumblr, though ive been distancing myself from that too lately) and I don't regret it for a second. But being chronically offline does make navigating the world somewhat challenging. The internet was fun when it was on a computer in the corner of my parents' living room, but now everything expects me to download the App and be on the App and keep using the App and have the App in my pocket at all times and completely rely on the App and let my life revolve around the App even when it just makes me stressed and miserable. I don't think the internet is completely irredeemably horrible (I'm here using spacehey after all) but I find it frustrating that you can't opt out without having to find workarounds for the fact that you aren't always online. It's one of the reasons why I'm not ready to switch back to flip phones, but i know people who have made the switch and they have my deep respect.

can i make a razr take 5g sim?? i want 2 buy one  but idk

I used to use a flip phone- still technically do since my current phone is a Galaxy Z Flip 4- but we know that doens't count. 

I plan on going back to a real one eventually. 

yeah, i totally get what you mean! deleted it a year ago, but it is basically impossible to be without one in this day and age.  I mean, we even need phones in school, its crazy!! It's like there's no choice anymore. Like a silent rule, or obligation that no one speaks of, but looms over our heads, controlling our every decision without us even realizing! I really want a flip phone, and then I'd decorate it with cute stickers and paint it pink.... but not a good look for you if you're in high school..

I can feel a lot of what's being said. The thing is that stuff like having a smartphone has become a necessity in civilization now as so many basic things require it. I personally think the best solution is to just have self-control, but I can understand that's easier said than done. In the end, what matters most is that you don't let it own you.

I was switching my SIM between my samsung galaxy and flip phone depending on what I needed, but last year I got the iphone 15 which is esim only... and they basically told me I wouldn't be able to use the flip phone unless I went to a store to have the SIMs switched every time. I need a smartphone for some stuff but I wanted to be able to use a flip at my leisure.. pissed af frankly.

I made the full switch to a 4G flip phone in June 2023 (shortly before finishing up my junior year of high school) and honestly, my only regret is not doing it any sooner.

I started getting fed up with smartphones and smartphone culture back during summer of 2021, got a little "backup" flip phone to take to school with me (though I quickly started treating it as if it were the only one I owned) in May 2022, and then got another one and switched over my number and everything to the current one I have in June 2023. My final straw for making the full switch was watching the That's So Raven episode where Raven gets her first cellphone (a neat little flip phone, as was standard circa 2003) and then going into a rage, asking myself "why can't my cellphone look like that?" and chucking my smartphone to the wall and onto the floor.

I mean, yeah sure, I know some people probably look at me a little weird whenever my cellphone rings and I pull that little clamshell out, though it probably helps that I'm weird like that to begin with and I have come to not care as to what anyone else thinks of me or my chosen lifestyle for myself.

I honestly don't see myself ever going back to owning a stupid smartphone, though if I ABSOLUTELY MUST and have ABSOLUTELY no other choice, I'd get the Unihertz Titan Pocket on a pay as you go plan and ONLY utilize it as a PDA (I'd probably also get a little stylus for it too, of course), still using my flip phone as the main device and for non internet related stuff like calling or texting people.