For the last three years, I've been everywhere with a regular push-button phone in my pocket. All communication is via SMS or phone calls. In the evening, when I’ve done all my work, I look through social networks and KZfaq on my computer and respond to messages sent. I usually spend no more than an hour on this. When I travel by train or bus, everyone stares at their smartphones. I look out the window and enjoy the views flying by. I also have a smartphone, but I disconnected it from the Internet. I mainly use it as a video camera.

The alternative to not-using smartphones and social media have become way worse over the past few years. It’s a huge part of why people relapse back into social media. Standalone webpages and blogs are impossible to find now without social media. Message boards and forums are impossible to find. RSS feeds are a dying breed. AI is breaking search engines. Normal television is dying. Dating is all social media apps. Standalone devices that serve one purposes are built way cheaper than they use to be. Etc. Use social media and smartphones or end up with a broken and dying alternative. If you want to stay away from Smartphones and social media, you have to concede that you will end up with less conveniences and that you will end up missing out on stuff. If Social Media is like smoking, current society is like a bizarro world where smokers rule the world.

Well done Yasmine.i have an iPhone 6 s plus.i only use safari and Apple Music player where’s I still download my own MP3s to the phone. My iOS is 11!

I watched this video again today as I was thinking about your " little black box of doom" comment . It's spot on and like monsters inc. the peers in charge get all their power from harvesting the fear propagated through these boxes of doom.

I thank God for finding your channel. You missed the 80s and 90s, you would have loved that era. Anyway, thank you for your videos. Have a good one!!

Girl same I was born in 1996 so I know what your taking about I’m a old school kinda girl too

Here's a great way I discovered to get myself off my phone. Traveling a long distance to see family. This last Christmas, I flew 24 hours from California to India to see my family, and I found myself spending more time chatting and doing things with my relatives instead of on my phone.

I just got my fold 5 and I'm already considering downgrading to a base model flagship or a mini smartphone. I love having a smartphone, but I don't want it to take over my life. I intentionally force myself to only use my smartphone for productive things but it's hard when you have a ipad in your pocket. I really wish I could buy just the front half of the fold5 for cheap. I do everything I can to get back into "the old way of doing things". I completely blocked youtube shorts from my youtube via unhook.

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Oh boy, you bring up a truckload of topics in this video, parts of it does not come as a surprise to me, but then again I was born in the early 70s and have had ALL of the technological revolution on my lap so I may be able to offer some insights in that. I'm gonna divide it into sections for you to cherry pick on so you may use some of the things you can use, and leave those that are irrelevant to you. 1) Social media. Yes, you're right, the design was to get all and everyone dependent on it so the force behind it (money, basically) could be in total control of your every desire, wish, thought under the disguise of freedom. It has those two sides, on one hand it gives you that freedom to reach anyone anywhere in an instand, but so can they. The other side of it is rather dark, you can spread misinformation relatively quickly and "inform" an entire audience so they start believing in whatever is told equally quickly, and the likes dictates your agenda and steers you in the direction of the false news. How to deal with it: Personally I leave the phone by my bedside when I leave for work, or even when I go downstairs in my house to do other things, I check it only 2 times during 24 hours just to answer mails, check on notifications, and I mostly ignore unimportant notifications. As you've discovered, this works wonders, and yes - selling your iphone and adopting a dumb phone is a very effective way to deal with it. Take control over your own life! 2) Mental illness. I am a firm believer of that everyone has their own struggles, it's when you can't control those it becomes an actual mental illness. I have been burned out once in my life, and it was really hard and cost me about 4 years of my precious lifetime, I have managed to locate the cause and I've promised myself to never again let such a thing affect me, in my case I just burned out from ambitions (pretty much like your beauty aspirations), it was technological and career oriented in my case, and I was too much of a worker-bee, too loyal to others, not loyal to my own life and beliefs, which caused the burnout. How to deal with it: I took a timeout, meaning I left society as we knew it totally. I no longer had any interest in music, technology, creation, career, hobbies - basically nothing. When I slowly recovered, I looked at my life as if it was one long VHS tape. I asked myself to look at the only thing that I loved during that time, and ignore the bad things. I found it to be friends, the only time during that VHS video that was my life - I was happy - was moments with friends. So now I had the basis to how to move on and get back in true control over my own life. 3) Collection and hoarding: For the longest time, ever since birth - I was obsessed with technology, when I became older (I'm very old now, twice your age), it was all about both modern tech and collecting nostalgia from the childhood, remembering fondly all the things I grew up with. At some point I got to own my own house at 42, and then I had even more space to collect all kinds of cool gadgets, it became an obsession, in the end (albeit not like a hoarders house with paper and pizza boxes everywhere) my collection was very pretty and organized, labeled and shelved, it was an obsession. When I jabbed my toe into an 30 kilo amplifyer on the floor, I had it! This was the final drop that made it all too much, A few years ago I decided to give 70 percent to charity (thrift stores run by charities) and sell the rest, so I did. I kept maybe 10 percent or less. How did I deal with that: I made up my mind in point 2, to keep true to myself, things, social media, addiction to collection, chasing career etc. didn't hold any value for me. So I decided to get rid of all clutter because it takes focus away from the things that really matter in my life. So I adopted a new rule "Haven't used it for 2 years, it gotta go!". And boy did a lot of stuff have to go, several years later - I enjoy watching collectors on youtube, but I don't miss anything of it. I feel so much more freedom now, clutter free house, almost like a Hotel, and I love it. 4) Stalkers, yes they exist: Pretty much like you, I had a mid sized youtube channel with a few videos that went viral with severk 100Ks views, and I had a loyal following of around 3K people, but when you reach those numbers (yeah don't look at my Joongle channel, it's a cover to hide my real channel), you will get a weirdo for each 100 viewers you get, maybe each 1K viewers there will be at least ONE obsessed with you. The thing about obsessed viewers is that they tend to think they know everything about you from watching your every video, they see themselves as your lfie partner, as you were meant to be etc. They build up a fantasy world that is not equal to yours because you've never seen them, but they have seen you constantly. Creepy right? Well - every youtube that had any significant numbers have experienced this. How to deal with that: First of all, understand that it is NOT your problem. You did not do anything to cause this. I dealt with it a bit special, I avoided ignoring them, but I didn't make them angry either, but I did in my videos indicate that I'd focus on other things in life, so I went away for a really long time. This seemed to "shake" my stalkers because I did not feed them more material. However, you seem to be actively tracked with perhaps an air-tag or at least your phone functioned as one? What I would do in that case is I would do what you do - switch to a simple phone like you do, You mentioned that you have a partner, focus on your partner and your true values together, eventually the stalkers will tire - and go away. Remember, stalkers and trolls live on your attention, the less they get of it, eventually they will move on. A short summary: You're still young, whatever you chose to focus on is your decision, there's none of it that is truly wrong. If it's wrong for you now, then it is, if it was right for you then - it was. You are building up values in your life as you go. No regrets, only the future! What I mean by this is that your book that is the adventure for the rest of your life, has many unwritten pages in it, you're in control, you decide what those pages should contain. Your book hasn't been written yet, and you have plenty of time to write it. whatever you decide to do, good luck on your journey, and thanks for sharing your thoughts with the world around you.

I haven't owned an iPhone. But I did own a lot of Nokia phones

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Best decision ever, leave youtube and the rest of the internet on the pc, music, texts and calls in your hand is enough