{"id":1848641,"date":"2023-02-15T15:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848641"},"modified":"2023-02-15T15:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:36:26","slug":"its-getting-harder-to-live-without-a-smartphone-and-thats-a-massive-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-getting-harder-to-live-without-a-smartphone-and-thats-a-massive-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Getting Harder To Live Without A Smartphone, And That\u2019s A Massive Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-getting-harder-to-live-without-a-smartphone-and-thats-a-massive-problem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848641&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Slowly, the infrastructure to live without a smartphone is disappearing in the West. Thanks to societal changes made during the pandemic-induced lockdowns of 2020, many temporary adjustments \u2014 QR code menus, digital boarding passes \u2014 have become permanent. <\/p>\n<p>Nowadays it\u2019s rare to go to a restaurant without grabbing your phone for access to a menu or for ordering takeout. Some concert venues actually offer free access to their menus and take-out options. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.seatgeek.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360007287653-Do-I-have-to-print-my-tickets-or-can-I-use-my-phone-to-get-into-the-event-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Require<\/a> Guests can show their tickets using their mobile devices. My Washington, D.C. apartment building allows tenants to open doors via Bluetooth technology using their mobile devices. To travel internationally \u2014 especially during the height of Covid-19 travel restrictions \u2014 many were required to provide health attestation forms via QR code. But QR codes require a smartphone to download.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m suddenly surrounded by QR codes. There are now Airbnb doors I can\u2019t open, cars I can\u2019t start, menus I can\u2019t read. Paper menus have vanished; ordering food has become an ordeal,\u201d Jen Wasserstein is an immigration lawyer in Spain. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/nov\/04\/my-life-without-a-smartphone-is-getting-harder-and-harder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Writes<\/a> The Guardian. She writes about the shame of being an iPhone-less person who asks for directions and board a plane. To make important calls, she uses a flip phone.<\/p>\n<p>Wasserstein, however, is choosing to live the same way that most Americans did 10 years ago. Have iPhones clouded our memories so much that we can\u2019t remember a time without them?<\/p>\n<p>Smartphone dependence encourages smartphone addiction. At a time when Americans already check their phones an average of 96 times a day \u2014 every 15 minutes \u2014 with teenagers spending an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossrivertherapy.com\/research\/cell-phone-addiction-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">On average, nine hours per day<\/a> This is a recipe of disaster for people who are constantly on the phone. <\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 is a key reason why smartphone addiction has reached an all-time high. <a href=\"https:\/\/bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12889-022-13931-1#ref-CR4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lockdowns<\/a>Potentially leading to many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7825859\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mental health disorders<\/a> Antisocial and other criminal behavior. Heavy smartphone use poses serious health risks. Why are they so essential for daily living?<\/p>\n<p>Many Americans are aware that their phones are addictive. Various first-person expos\u00e9s on wrestling with iPhone addiction appear in corporate media outlets from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/living-without-iphone-year-experiment-2022-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Time<\/a> To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/23\/business\/cell-phone-addiction.html\">Tim<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/23\/business\/cell-phone-addiction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">e<\/a>. Most of these journalists will have returned to phone-slavery after the pandemic lockdowns, which I suspect is why. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2021\/09\/01\/the-internet-and-the-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alternative technology to in-person interaction<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>All hope is not lost. Recent article from the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/2022.12.16-115830\/https:\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/15\/style\/teens-social-media.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Documents<\/a> A group of high schoolers from Gen Z in Brooklyn formed a Luddite Club. These teenagers have quit social media and traded in their smartphones for flip phones. They\u2019ve seen the harmful effects smartphone use has had on their peers and they want out. They want to live life without any restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>We could only convince more Westerners, purely for their own benefit, to form Luddite clubs. This would ensure that you have a fulfilling life. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fpsyt.2021.669042\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Increasing<\/a>. But, for now, those who fear an institutional push that makes it virtually impossible to live without a phone should come together and advocate the right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The infrastructure for living without a smartphone in the West is slowly disappearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1848644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[6730,6550,6146,5908,18769,4279],"class_list":["post-1848641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-harder","tag-its","tag-live","tag-massive","tag-smartphone","tag-thats"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}