Like, you just look weird if you sitting by yourself (example: waiting at a bus stop) and just stairing into space, so like its basically social expectation to be on your phone when you are by yourself.
Plus, just feels like if you don’t have a phone on you, you are missing a lot of information (access to the internet, maps, etc.) that you might need in case you get lost or something.
My pockets feel unusual. Same when going out without a wallet. Constantly feel like I left them somewhere.
I think part of the problem is, because I always carry it, I keep thinking I’ve forgotten something. Or go to check the time or whatever and remember I don’t have it.
I’ve recently had to force myself to pay more attention to my phone. I keep putting it down and forgetting it for many hours at a time. I have to get better or one of these days I’m going to have left it outside my home or car, it’s only a matter of time.
Yeah but only because I have literally no personality and will stare blankly in space (and 9 times out of 10, in the direction of some random person) and I’m only worried about not blending in enough without starting stupid fights. I wasn’t listening to your stupid conversation, I was completely zoned out but okay. It was probably a really stupid conversation about stupid marijuana products and brand names and “attractive” men who look like personified dead rats or something stupid I wasn’t even interested in.
I’d end up staring at people while I drink my coffee without my phone.
Not really, but I’m old. I grew up in the '80s and '90s. I still prefer not to forget my cell, mostly because there’s no payphones anymore.
Not really. The only thing I’d be missing access to is where I am on my finances when shopping and I don’t have it.
I was on the metro recently and didnt feel like using my phone. tried to zone out into space but kept feeling like people were looking at me funny, noticing I wasn’t looking down at a phone. made me feel so u comfortable I took my phone out and forced myself to use it for the next 20 mins
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Whereas my response to that situation is to want to do anything but that. Who wants to be just another sheep squinting zombielike at a screen?? I will never get it.
I feel weird and anxious when I go outside even if I do have my phone with me.
Ooposite, i feel weird and unreal when I have a phone, like I’m not human, just bound to this box and that’s all I am, no me. also I’m embarrassed using my phone in public, because it is embarrassing and when I see people doing it my respect sinks by 70%.
its basically social expectation to be on your phone when you are by yourself.
Books and newspapers are not forbidden (yet?)
No. It’s not hard to entertain myself by simply observing the world around me and daydreaming.
No. I usually read books anyway, and i tend to forget my phone very often. So nothing unusual.
I leave my phone behind now and again so I don’t feel the obligation to always be reachable, a privilege I’m sure. I don’t often get lost but I speak the local language so I can just ask a stranger if I do. I absolutely don’t find it weird if someone’s alone and not looking at a phone and don’t think anyone around me does, though I’ve never been one to care about that sort of thing anyway. I’ve intentionally removed all the timewasting apps from my phone as well, namely social media and news and all that.
it feels liberating
