Young people especially are snapping up “brick” and flip phones in order to be engage more with real people in real life as opposed to fake social media life.
Seventeen-year-old Robin West of London told BBC News that she “doesn’t have a smartphone” and has become somewhat of an anomaly among her friends. However, that sentiment is changing as the trend of ditching digital gains traction.
“I didn’t notice until I bought a brick phone how much a smartphone was taking over my life,” West said. “I had a lot of social media apps on it, and I didn’t get as much work done as I was always on my phone.”
“I’m happy with my brick – I don’t think it limits me. I’m definitely more proactive.”
Instead of endlessly scrolling through TikTok like many of her peers,
West uses her phone to make calls and occasionally text. The rest of
the time, she is living life as a person who is not constantly glued to a
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