I have a flip phone for travel and emergencies, but never wanted to get a "smart'"phone at all for assorted reasons. Don't need it! I email a ton though.
I have a flip phone for travel and emergencies, but never wanted to get a "smart'"phone at all for assorted reasons. Don't need it! I email a ton though.
Me too! I still have a "landline" with the same number I've had for 45 years, no TV, no laptop, no tablet, no smartphone, just a little Tracfone/flip phone for power outages and traveling. I turn on my reliable old desktop computer twice a day to check my emails and the local news and weather. There's no contract for my flip phone, which costs me $23 per quarter. At age 82, I prefer to spend my time engaging with real people, pets, great-grandchildren, local musicians; getting lost in a good book with a cup of herbal tea and some dark chocolate (organic, Fair Traded, supporting women farmers in Africa), watching sunsets over the ocean, and musing over Substack posts and comment threads. My tribe!
You and I are old enough to remember PRE home computers and these horrible cell phones. Everywhere I go, people are staring at their phones, there's no communication anymore... it's truly creepy. Thank God I was born before all this, and I remember it! And I want it BACK. xo
I remember those days! We got landline service for free, radio, TV, everything for free, Candy bars cost a nickel ice cream a quarter, and hamburger was 39 cents a pound, about the same as leaded gas for your car. Babies were bathed in Phisohex 1 x daily and we used Vasoline to polish our Mary Janes. Penny candy even cost a penny, and with only 2 choices in the potato chip aisle, we had half the day to play hide and seek with our friends outside... Those really were the days.
Now thatтАЩs how to beat the system! By real human engagement and living real life. IтАЩm a homebody, but I still miss the days before social media sucked us inЁЯШй
I have a flip phone for travel and emergencies, but never wanted to get a "smart'"phone at all for assorted reasons. Don't need it! I email a ton though.
Me too! I still have a "landline" with the same number I've had for 45 years, no TV, no laptop, no tablet, no smartphone, just a little Tracfone/flip phone for power outages and traveling. I turn on my reliable old desktop computer twice a day to check my emails and the local news and weather. There's no contract for my flip phone, which costs me $23 per quarter. At age 82, I prefer to spend my time engaging with real people, pets, great-grandchildren, local musicians; getting lost in a good book with a cup of herbal tea and some dark chocolate (organic, Fair Traded, supporting women farmers in Africa), watching sunsets over the ocean, and musing over Substack posts and comment threads. My tribe!
You and I are old enough to remember PRE home computers and these horrible cell phones. Everywhere I go, people are staring at their phones, there's no communication anymore... it's truly creepy. Thank God I was born before all this, and I remember it! And I want it BACK. xo
I remember those days! We got landline service for free, radio, TV, everything for free, Candy bars cost a nickel ice cream a quarter, and hamburger was 39 cents a pound, about the same as leaded gas for your car. Babies were bathed in Phisohex 1 x daily and we used Vasoline to polish our Mary Janes. Penny candy even cost a penny, and with only 2 choices in the potato chip aisle, we had half the day to play hide and seek with our friends outside... Those really were the days.
Now thatтАЩs how to beat the system! By real human engagement and living real life. IтАЩm a homebody, but I still miss the days before social media sucked us inЁЯШй