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Yet, you engage with society. Curious.

For someone sharing OP's opinion, simply "not using it" wouldn't solve anything. Most of the problems OP lists is stems from that people in general use them.

I'm not saying you should agree with OP, but your argument misses the point.

Smartphones are using me more than I use them. I hate them, and love them, and hate that I love them.

As someone who carries around a flip phone on purpose, it’s not impossible to live without a smartphone, but it’s getting more challenging.

Ticketmaster now requires a smartphone. You can’t print tickets. Which means I can no longer go to baseball games.

So far, that’s the only thing I’ve found that’s a hard block, but many other things are certainly not designed for the phone impaired.

I don't have one, I'm browsing from my computer. I still go through all the inconveniences listed above and some more. Checkmate, smartphone user.

Not using the device doesn't suddenly end its impacts on society.

It's a powerful tool, but the power isn't yours.

"Smartphones. This Christmas, take a short break from using a device to masturbate and use it to talk to your extended family." Yea that's not something I considered would happen with tech when I was younger.

Another word for TikTok!