{"id":12839,"date":"2024-01-06T10:38:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T09:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/06\/im-24-but-i-used-a-nokia-dumbphone-for-the-whole-2010s-i-long-to-go-back-to-it-isabel-brooks\/"},"modified":"2024-01-06T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T09:38:53","slug":"im-24-but-i-used-a-nokia-dumbphone-for-the-whole-2010s-i-long-to-go-back-to-it-isabel-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/06\/im-24-but-i-used-a-nokia-dumbphone-for-the-whole-2010s-i-long-to-go-back-to-it-isabel-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m 24, but I used a Nokia \u2018dumbphone\u2019 for the whole 2010s \u2013 I long to go back to it | Isabel Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

While my friends swapped funny videos on their smartphones, I enjoyed my freedom. Then society made that impossible<\/p>\n

My gran has a new smartphone, and I am trying to help her navigate it. But she doesn\u2019t see the point. She says her smartphone<\/a> is \u201cmalevolent, sneaky and sly\u201d because things on the screen disappear and cannot be retrieved. Her old \u201cdumbphone\u201d is more reliable. \u201cI love it,\u201d she says. \u201cIt never lets me down.\u201d I ask how she travels without maps. \u201cI work it out before I go.\u201d What about tickets for trains or events? \u201cYour mum\u2019s always sorted tickets.\u201d Even though I\u2019m a tech-savvy, gen Z 24-year-old, I understand her arguments perfectly. I also made a choice to go without a smartphone for a whole decade, from 2010 to 2020. In 2020, my final year of university, I caved and bought one, a choice encouraged by my mum, who was anxious for me to be more contactable.<\/p>\n

Back in 2010, when I was 11, the small number of kids in my year who had smartphones were treated like celebrities. We would crowd round, heads bent over a video game or YouTube, snatching the phone off each other to have a go. But then, over the next couple of years, smartphones became the norm, and suddenly everyone was posting pictures and sending messages or even nude shots from their own.<\/p>\n

Isabel Brooks is a writer living in south-east London<\/p>\n

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\nWhile my friends swapped funny videos on their smartphones, I enjoyed my freedom. Then society made that impossible
\nMy gran has a new smartphone, and I am trying to help her navigate it. But she doesn\u2019t see the point. She says her smartphone is \u201cmalevolent, sneaky and sly\u201d because things on the screen disappear and cannot be retrieved. Her old \u201cdumbphone\u201d is more reliable. \u201cI love it,\u201d she says. \u201cIt never lets me down.\u201d I ask how she travels without maps. \u201cI work it out before I go.\u201d What about tickets for trains or events? \u201cYour mum\u2019s always sorted tickets.\u201d Even though I\u2019m a tech-savvy, gen Z 24-year-old, I understand her arguments perfectly. I also made a choice to go without a smartphone for a whole decade, from 2010 to 2020. In 2020, my final year of university, I caved and bought one, a choice encouraged by my mum, who was anxious for me to be more contactable.
\nBack in 2010, when I was 11, the small number of kids in my year who had smartphones were treated like celebrities. We would crowd round, heads bent over a video game or YouTube, snatching the phone off each other to have a go. But then, over the next couple of years, smartphones became the norm, and suddenly everyone was posting pictures and sending messages or even nude shots from their own.
\nIsabel Brooks is a writer living in south-east London Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While my friends swapped funny videos on their smartphones, I enjoyed my freedom. Then society made that impossible My gran has a new smartphone, and I am trying to help her navigate it. But she doesn\u2019t see the point. She says her smartphone is \u201cmalevolent, sneaky and sly\u201d because things on the screen disappear and …<\/p>\n

I\u2019m 24, but I used a Nokia \u2018dumbphone\u2019 for the whole 2010s \u2013 I long to go back to it | Isabel Brooks<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}