Contact Admin. My wife and I have two young children. And yet, one night not so long ago, a handful of my enslaved brain cells sparked unexpectedly to life. I looked up from Twitter. When they made it really fast and put it on a phone, it was pretty much game over. My usage is heavy, best described as a zigzag, across apps. Baseball stats, flight status, email check, text, random article, who knows what. All it takes is a slim distraction and my thumb turns turbo. Of course it should have been obvious long ago, but on that revelatory night, I realised I had lost control.
The reach for the phone had become involuntary. A bulbous chunk of my brain, sucked up by phonethink. Should I charge it now, or later? At work or at home, notifications buzz me like low-flying planes. I have found myself wondering if this is a matter of evolution.
Maybe future humans will have legs that ring. And maybe knees that tweet. And so I began looking for balance. In the midst of the all-consuming, politics-driven death spiral that is the US today, I shut down all notifications. Effectively, I banned news. So I tried something else. I deleted Facebook and Instagram. I kept on bouncing between my apps, checking the damned New York Post. Could I just chuck the damn thing in the ocean?
Or just leave it at home? Alas, that really is the stuff of fantasy. But what if I could have a smartphone for when it was really needed but used a low-tech phone for less-essential tasks and times?
The experiment began three weeks ago. I called my carrier and asked if there was a way I could put my number on two devices. So I checked out the Nokia , a recent refresh of the classic candy bar phone, complete with T9 texting and Snake! Login Signup. Signup Login Contact Admin. Irina 20 Nokia. Lorenza 27 Finland. Beta 29 Nokia. My name is carolina aurora, independent companion based in prague who is available for incall and outcall meetings in prague only and iam very glad that you came into my europedates profile.
