@@thedavidboland cash and land lines. I’m fine. CDs… old soul resistant to this ….. desired manipulation. Hope you’re well . A appreciate your intention.
Very cheesy video. I grew up in the 90s before all of this tech, but the first PC I got only enriched my life. Access to the internet only gave me access to endless knowledge which was previously limited by that one encyclopedia I had. And phones can connect me with true friends around the world! No more snail mail that takes two months to send... Oh and discovering forgotten 70s songs at the touch of a button on a warm balcony sipping tea is just priceless... A lot of you are using this tech wrong. You're not supposed to feel anxious and miserable using it!
You are right but something started to change and that's what is the biggest Fear. NO Revolution but Evolution and you have chosen to react Pro Active . We are all in this together.
"As we get closer to the end, the world is going to go faster and faster. You must not do likewise. In fact, if you wish to survive, the faster the world is going, the slower you must go." - Native American prophecy
@@skyblazeeternothey probably wouldn't have lost if not for the sickness the colonisers brought. Like seriously, the deaths were estimated to be around 95% over the hundred odd years of so
@@piggynatorcool668 Most analyses indicate that they would have lost, but the "victory" of the Europeans would have been so costly for the European powers that they might well have abandoned colonization efforts out of sheer necessity. Very interesting stuff tbh
The thing that most annoys me is that you pretty much cant now deal with any external entities without a phone. So many insist on sending text message codes in order to access services.
I'm with you. It's not even just a text or a call. Annoying but there is some justification for them. Its the next step they truly bugs me. They are trying to insist on yet another app being installed. Another account being created.
@@GeoFry3 Get a folding phone and configure the folded screen to only have the bare essentials. No distractions while it's folded, and if you absolutely need a full featured phone you just unfold it.
Getting ready to retire and plan to ditch the phone and limit internet. I have grown a personal library that I hope to spend years devouring without thoughts of what the world thinks about everything.
You can't retire without phone and internet. If you want to retire you need to invest. How will you invest in DeFi or stocks without your phone? 😊 Or have multiple incomes, career choices, etc.?
Fun fact: There was a time when nobody had cell phones. Most people had a landline…and pay phones were everywhere. Kids played outside and people talked to each other much more. That glorious time was called the 80’s and 90’s and that’s the era I grew up in not so long ago… 👍
its a damn shame the youth have been brainwashed to the extent they have and will never know that beautiful time period. it felt like the good times would continue on forever.... never would of dreamed this is where the world would be
Everything is getting so expensive, maybe it’s an opportunity to revive some of the oldies but goodies free hang out sessions that were the norm back then. Game nights are a good start, fewer people cancel because they know what they will be doing, know they can talk about the game, there is often an exit time as well.
This is essentially why people turn republican as they age. Most people stop learning and growing their minds and just stay with their belief until they age into being "conservative" in their views. And then you have this person complaining about technology using technology... irony.
I lost my smartphone about 2 years ago for 1 week. I could not log into my work because the company decided we had to use our phones to identify ourselves. I couldn’t access my bank accounts because the bank required me to confirm my ID with my phone. I couldn’t access other very important accounts because they all required the same. I couldn’t even order food at some restaurants because their menu has to be looked up on your phone. I realized then that I had already been check mated. We have already lost control to the beast. Try to separate yourself as much as possible
The QR code menu pisses me off. I understand not wanting to have menus that need to be cleaned and updated, so just print out some paper ones! Restaurants will order a whole box of coloring menus for kids, but can't use a printer for a physical copy of their menu.
“The BEAST System,” is exactly right. Revelation 14:9-11 King James Version (KJV) “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”
YES Man ! You see clearly the false virtual reality that we are lock in ! Go back into the wood and live simply , if possible , and with sensitive persones .
TH-cam is the only thing I use now because I can choose my topics and entertainment. Closed Facebook years ago. Closed Instagram last year. I use the phone for banking, buying used books and music. That’s it really.
the point is that we are the ones directing our behavior for reasons. Mindless anything makes things meaningless no matter what it is. Cell phones are great camera's allowing us to show pictures with family. That is pretty much what my cell is for. Don't ask me to show you how to use the internet on it
I like using a computer, so when I am not at the PC my attention is fully where I am at. Plus I have house plants taking over most of my office and a big window to the back yard full of trees and sunlight shining right in from the right side of the room right next to the desk.
I miss the 90s😭 we were so...in the moment, looked each other in the eye, the whole face, had hourlong conversations. Didnt even know what time it was most of the day
I agree, the 80's too. OMG I was just talking about this with a dear friend the other day. We laughed because we said we got away with so much and were so adventurous back then, the best part is that there's no proof, lol. Living in the moment was the thing to do.
I’m a dinosaur. Don’t carry a phone. Don’t miss it. I do use technology because I’m forced to. Still use my land line as much as possible. Birds. Rain. Grass. Conversation. None of these can be duplicated by a screen.
I struggled with social media/phone addiction from 15 - 19 years old. I quit everything (except youtube) in March 2021 after realising my average screen time daily was 14 hours. I'm 22 now & use my phone minimally, write lists/journaling with pen & paper, read physical books & buy physical DVDs/video games for the first time in YEARS. Although it's improved my life greatly, it's harmed my social life. All my friends look at me weirdly & treat me like an alien, anytime I'm with them they're on their phones most of the time completely zoned out like zombies. It's horrible how drowned society has become in the digital world, I'd give anything to live back in the 70s/80s/90s & embrace a more simple life. I really have to fight temptation to go back to that digital world, it's a legitimate addiction I don't wish on anyone.
I'm glad that you are getting over your social media addiction, hopefully you will make more friends that will not be hooked on their phones. Also, the 70s/80s/90s were not simpler, I don't know where that perception came from, the 'good old days' are always viewed through rose tinted glasses.
We don’t possess smartphones, they possess us and btw I believe they and all the social media are created to do exactly that. We have a huge responsibility in our hands, especially for our children. Who do we want to be for them? A free, happy, simple yet complex human being rooted in nature? Or a compulsive, possessed, de-rooted half-robot? (I prefer to be the first one even though it sometimes seems to be very hard😅❤)
Omg, that's the take away you get from this video with cheesy music?? If a phone controls you so much, you're using it improperly. Yesterday I listened to 70s chill rock and had the most wonderful time drinking tea on the balcony! Technology improves my life!
TV was the same, zapping was no different from tiktok, nor were cartoons for children designed to be ads for toys (these exist on youtube too). What I feel we really lost is... Time. Time to be with children and play with them, time we have to spend working our lives away. How can anybody be at fault when all the energy they have at the end of the day is to sit and hook themselves and their children to tablets/TV?
We go in a lot of camping trips and it is now normal to use a smartphone to reserve campsite on the fly. When you get there, there is no one to talk to. There may be a camp host, but they don't have anything to do with the reservation system, except for taking inventory of campers. The hosts are nice people. The reason i cite this example is to give evidence of how smartphones are ubiquitous. If you don't have access to mobile Internet you might literally not be able to camp in many US National Parks and forests. There is something sad about that. I'm writing this comment ony smartphone. I just returned from a week of backpacking. I found myself looking for a signal at a high pass. I got one. I sent a friend two photos. Seemed okay to do that. But I have to wonder.
Totally agree! I was on youtube way too long yesterday and started feeling discontent. Went for a walk and came back home, colored and studied French. Felt much better❤🙏🏾
Me too, I used it way too long... But I learned something new! I'm learning about astrophysics, law and social issues, even how to cook delicious Indian curries... But if phones ruin your daily life and make you feeling despaired, then you're not using it properly! You definitely don't need to bother with all the Mr Beast drama and all that. Pick up a hobby and let the internet enrich you! I'm learning crocheting with one phone and listening to 70s music on another phone! All this whining of "phones ruin me" mostly reflect your own miserable personality and that means you can feel that way even with other non-tech hobbies, like cycling or painting.
I went 3 months with a dumb phone. My son missed 2 friends birthdays, I couldnt pay for his basketball fees, couldn't order him lunch,or communicate with his football team. All those were through apps. I can stomach the impact on my life, but the impact on my kid was too big. Had to go back to the smart phone. Was so angry how manipulated we are.
I think it's only because you're not used to smartphone-free life. Meet the football team in person, take a packed lunch, arrange to pay in cash in person or by cheque. Easy really.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I am on my fourth year without a smart phone now and I am never going back. I also limit my interaction with email and online activity to one hour five days a week. It is amazing for creativity and inner peace. Again, thank you for sharing your perspective.
So happy for you. I still remember saying how I was afraid what would happen if I got once, myself...have been addicted since. But I can feel that I'm about to change that very soon. :) thanks for the encouragment.
It's impossible for me to make this change in my work and career. I literally can't leave the smartphone behind during the day, because of the authentication apps.
I'll tell you what I told my grandfather when he mentioned he didn't use the internet after the 90s when call-in tech support services were directly used- you seriously dodged a bullet Way too much has happened for me to even process over the last 10 years
I'm in a weird spot. I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s. I had a bit of internet, but I was a nerdy kid and knew my way around a computer. But I definitely hate social media and how common it is for people to be online. People who are different, nerd, awkward. They belong online. The preppy girl who had 30 friends has no reason other than to be entertained. The majority of the internet now is "entertainment" and not socialization or learning. I use less websites with algorithms, less websites with infinite scrolling. I limit that to just TH-cam maybe a few hours on a slow day with no art inspiration, maybe 30 minutes on a productive day when I'm walking my dog. I look for information, art tutorials, independent news. We all need some downtime, too, but man. Socializing on your 30s is already hard enough. But everyone is so set in their ways, having their circles, and not trying to engage. Granted, we're all tired. As Americans, at least, we've been commodified and dehumanized by mega corporations running our country. So we cope, we escape. But we've got to admit we need to actually interact, too.
That's me went back to the old flipper flopper phone for I can use my laptop at home for those internet conveniences which isn't much for the world has for the most part gone apey over them smartass phones not me if I want to act like a zombie I just watch it on my favorite show the Walking Dead !!!
When we only had landline phones, we also felt these insecurities. “Why is no one calling me? Doesn’t anyone want to do anything with me.” The smartphone isn’t the problem. The problem is social media and how we’ve been trained to desire positive feedback from strangers. Desiring feedback is the biggest change. We’ve been trained to do care much too deeply what strangers think.
Zuckerberg created Facebook as a glorified college yearbook application where he could rate college girls with his salacious buddies. That's all you really need to know about Facebook. It's just an extension of your high school yearbook.
This is why I don’t understand social media. Who cares what strangers think? It’s bizarre. I like TH-cam because I enjoy reading how other people think about things because it can be different from my thoughts. I turned off notifications for TH-cam and have no idea when my comments get responses. It’s just out there in the aether that is the internet. I had to for my own sanity. It’s much simpler to use TH-cam as a way to express thoughts almost like a journal using the comments section. But a journal you don’t go back to. I liken it to long form public bathroom scribble but a bit more interesting and engaging.
Us old people have been yelling for years that life was better before invasive technology ... I'm not even against technology but around 2008 it started to overtake reality
I’m 18 and I’ve been saying the same. This time is different, it’s not like televisions and computers we tethered and left at home. As soon as we could take the internet with us, the world began to die.
It won’t be voluntary but ur correct…the internet is not freedom of information but rather controlling the information we have access to…before long, the channels that provide real history won’t be allowed…it will all be the same bs we have with tv media….lies and rhetoric and then they will take it away after everything has been updated to need the internet to operate. I went to put fuel in my car one day the internet was down. They couldn’t even sell me fuel for my car! The pumps are all controlled via the internet! Let that sink in! Our power grid is also like this! They take the internet away and we won’t even be able to power our homes!
We lived like this for millions of years befote the last thirty or so, and so it is strange how we are SO addicted to being "connected" that we feel strange when we aren't. In actuality, when we are off social media and without our computers and cell phones, we are really "connected". The sad thing is there is no going back and it will change our entire human experience and society as we have known it for millions of years. And not for the better.
I saw a person comment on another TH-cam video...."That's why they call it a 'cell' phone." I found that single statement profound and so true, the cellphone keeps us "locked" up. Locked up to what? Nothing that is important just nonsense.
Humans haven't been around for millions of years but i get your point. Civilizations began around 6000 years ago. And before that we lived with nature just as animals but with intelligence. Even looking at pre industrialization which historically isnt that long ago, we've rapidly vastly changed how we live. Too rapidly. We cant exist with and next to the natural world and then in 2 generations condition everyone to live in small, climate-controlled boxes where all the difficulties of life are convenienced away. Taking us out of the processes of life, shielding us from the realities of it. It has made a profoundly sick society.
@@VoltageNostalgia This way of living isn't sustainable. Birth rates are very low in many countries, it's only a matter of time before the entire world stops having babies.
If you watch live concerts from the 70s, 80s, 90s, nobody’s holding up a stupid hellphone. Everyone’s dancing, laughing, smiling, living in the NOW ❤ that’s what it’s all about.
@@elfi_sternenstaub have you also noticed… tempo has been altered. Sped up. Changes the emotional capacity to the songs. I hate it. Music person for 40 yrs. Screen music is altered. Living NOW is buying the “illusion “.
Im 23 and a bit of a shut-in, so im usually online very consistently, playing games, talking with friends i met online etc. but, what i dont use is normal social media. (facebook, twitter, etc.) I dont really keep up with whats happening, living in my own little bubble. I like it this way. I understand the people wanting to completely cut out technology, but in my case, its what i grew up with. I hardly know anybody in my local area outside of family, so im afraid of being truly alone if i ever decided to not make use of technology to talk to the few people ive met online. For me talking to friends is enough.
Might be (and except for the online friends I'm perhaps not even so much different because of my chronic ME/CFS health issues). But what are you going to do in a longlasting blackout? You'll be completely alone...
Thank you David. You & I are of the same ilk. I made a video about how my smart phone ruined my life. I would return to a world without screens in a heartbeat. I find we are all becoming more isolated. I am in Dublin & I feel the city has become disconnected, strange. It used to be vibrant & social! Bright blessings & I appreciate your work 💫
No smart phone (landline at home), no TV, yes I have a laptop at home; no social media...people wonder how I live. I tell them this is a choice and there's intentionality to living like this. I walked the El Camino de Santiago (ancient pilgrimage route) across Spain 10 years ago with no technology. Friends of mine offered to buy me a phone, "what if you die"; well, then I die, I will one day and no presence of a cell phone is going to stop THAT. I trusted that the set of dog tags around my neck would get my corpse home. It's the anxiety of OTHERS that is the hardest thing to deal with. I pick up on a condescension in people who learn of my no cell life. My spirituality is deeper than ever, and hardly anyone is curious about THAT....they're more interested in the newest app.
@@exmas3284 You are so right about that! That's so funny, I never considered making comments on youtube social media, but duh 'social media'. You can tell I don't get out much!
@@helenhawkins2107 That's funny and you're right; for some reason I did not think that making comments on youtube was social media! So I'm not as off the grid as I thought! Ugh!
Good talk. There are a lot of dissenters now... Just last evening I turned my phone OFF, which I never do. My mind felt like an addict's must be. I also felt weirdly guilty about what I might miss. It kept me from sleeping at first. I have the same sentiments as others have posted here. If we are not conscious of how we use technology, then we are being used, and all the problems that come along with it are only going to get worse.
How did you sit there and record in 1 take without having any ummm or errrrrs?! I strive for that much clarity and freeness from my mind to my mouth. Awesome video bud
To be honest there are several cuts in here, someone even walked into the shot whilst I was filming but that being said, speaking slowly helps me to be more articulate. Um and eh can be replaced with space or breath - that’s all I’ve done here. Thanks for your lovely comment ❤
I've never owned a smartphone. The only thing that's smart is not owning one. The first person that I know to own one came round to my house and just stared at it and that put me right off. I have a phone, yes. I have a computer, yes. But I don't want my entire life ruled by a piece of technology.
technology impedes freedom. think of the car and how city planning is designed with the automobile in mind (not humans) even if you want to buck the system and boycott the automobile, it still dictates your movement. we can not cross the street without the traffic lights permission lest one of those machines takes us out. it's a horrifying realization that ted k wasn't wrong.
I have been out of social media for almost 3 years, and I can tell you, with even my parents, everyone i had contact with is comfortable numb, like robots. It's no surprise why everyone says time is flying, like, yeah, bro, leave that phone, go outside, discover life. My last hope is to continue being "offline" because I believe there are people like me, not so much, but at least someone from my generation, early 99'.
Im mid 99 as well, i havent found anybody my own age like me but luckily there are some folks that are a little older that i found to be more like us. A lot of kids in our generation were on the cusp but some of the kids with techy or more open parents got them internet and devices and some didnt. Just got to find the ones who didnt.
I stopped instagram a few months ago. Other ‚social’ media is not existent in my life. Only thing left is TH-cam. And the smartphone. And still, that’s too much. It fckn drains energy out of my body. I can’t wait for the day in near future when we will all throw them away ❤
Most of my life there were no computers, no mobile phones, no internet, TV had one channel, then two, we got a landline in the 80s. No microwave ovens, no games consols. The list goes on. They were far far far better times. People knew their friends, neighbours, families etc. They had to make an effort. If you said you were going to be somewhere, you couldn't and didn't cancel last minute. Food was cooked from scratch, using ingredients and not just a packet thrown in a box for two minutes to heat up. We as children rode bikes miles and miles, we built dens, we went camping, we hunted and fished, we painted, did woodwork, played games. Familes would get together for picnics and walks. I won't go on but humanity, loyalty, love, faith, commitment, debate, freedom, and all sorts of other beneficial things have been totally destroyed by this technology. It is sad to behold.
We were taken by cruel entities. We are just lowly, weak sheep. It's slowly sinking in and hurts tremendously. I just can't recognize this existence. A feeling of extreme loss. Only when I dwell on it.
I can relate. A person made a date to meet me somewhere, her idea, and cancelled last minute on cell after I was already there like it was OK, and of course I was wrong for not being understanding. We had them over for a holiday dinner she laid her cell phone on our dining table while we ate as if that was more important. These devices are ruining just common decency. But it does point out the shallow people. Not wasting any more effort on that friendship!
what most really can't see is WHO is really DOING this and WHO is "they"... And that's the reason why all of this is happening to us. Do you know who "they" are? Starts with a j - vvs@@nedcramdon1306
I love how etherial this video is. The sense of being in the woods with you and feeling the wind on my face is great. Even how you shot this from so far away with the clear audio gives a sense that we are so small vs nature
Am not on any social media platforms, never will be…yes I have a smart phone but use it only for messaging & calls…I bought it 2nd hand so it is nowhere near new yet does the job. I love nature & what you were describing sounded like bliss to me…a wood fire is how I cook my meals… love it! Thank you for a calming informative video. Cheers from Aus 👩🌾
sometimes youtube is more commucative and educational it will give you knowledge and information you want to hear from others and it motivates you to keep going in life
The problem with doing this in a town or city is that they aren't built that way anymore. No payphones, no maps, everything requires an app to sign in. People don't live without a phone because they can't anymore.
i quit booze 3.5 years ago. deleted all social media other than youtube a year ago, I switched from smart phone back to flip phone 2.5 months ago. The only things I own are what I need at this point to survive, cut all bills out or lowered the needed ones....my life has changed for the better. I'm reading more, and I am finding it is easier to live in the moment...I realized I have everything in front of me to be happy. I don't need anything more
Half my life there was no internet and mobile phones... I have never owned a smart phone ...i got those "old" "with buttons". All i see around me is people looking at their phones , noone gives a look around. i m grateful i have no smartphone...no facebook..no tik tok.
Great monologue and great story here mate. May I point out something about your soundtrack though? Although some people may think it's cool to have a soundtrack like that in the background, I do think it deters from something much more significant--and to me more interesting: the amazing chorus of natural sound all around you, such as the tree leaves dancing in the wind. It would be more appropriate to your topic also.
I also agree, it's so cheesy and gives off a perception that being "phoneless" is some benevolent, superior experience. If a smartphone makes you feel anxious and miserable, then you aren't using it correctly 😂
I'm 68 years old and I got my first "smart phone" in 2017. I didn't have any idea how to use it. After about a month I started to figure it out but I quickly realized that it could become an addiction. I saw people walking around staring into the phone like it had some kind of mesmerizing effect. I use it very sparingly and I hate to think about how the younger generation is going to cope when we don't have any internet anymore. We're so close to annihilation from a nuclear war.
I see lots of old fogies glued to their phones and ipad's or whatever, all the time. I've never even used one. Computer's more than enough. (Way too much lately)
I honestly don't forsee the use of nukes again, but our grid is very temperamental and poorly maintained, so we could be in deep trouble if/when it breaks down. No internet wouldn't be as big of an issue as no food or water. Very troubling to contemplate.
A few years ago it wasn´t a problem for most 50+ folks. Nowadays they´re pretty much exactly as addicted as the youth. My parents are constantly on the phone and i hear it from many many other friends too.
Its really funny that some people comment on not using smart phones, Internet and other tech but they watched and commented on this vid using tech, 🤔 Those that truly don't use smartphones and tech are out there doing things and don't know about this vid
"The monstrous stories about messages that weren't there", that hit hard. During isolation hardly anyone(family and friends) reached out to see if I was alright (I lived alone through the whole thing) Since then I've cut them all out because I realised what a gift that was to see, how insignificant I was to them and how much energy I wasted thinking about them. Now I have the capacity to create because my life force isn't being drained by assholes constantly taking me for granted 🙏
I only watch youtube, no X no telegram, Netflix or anything else, I'm having a hard time with spammers twice a day for two weeks and continuing so I don't like my smart phone at the moment the spam callers get blocket each call but they keep ringing using different numbers, so glad I found your video thanks x
My wife and I made the decision at the end of 2021 to sell our smartphones and use the most basic device we could find. Found a decent little phone that still had the capacity for maps, notepad, and a few others but no social media or browser capacity. Used this up until 2023 when I was publicly threatened with termination from my job because I could not use a new app they made mandatory. I found a new job, but in the interim I had to move back to an iPhone. My life was quieter then, and I appreciated not being able to get hounded by work at all hours. My current role is too dependent on 365 to live without a smartphone now, but that period in 2022 really taught us how to intentionally put these awful things down and really focus on what’s in front of us. I’m thankful for 2022.
Know that your experience is subjective. I just did an 8-day hike over 78 miles with no phone and it wasn't as profound as your experience because I do it all the time. YOU are in control of these experiences.
Yes! Exactly. Now I long for the disconnects if I can't hike. I haven't even gone on more than a 6-day backpacking trip...yet. Pretty hard to stay off grid when you work in IT. I still use the phone for camera & downloaded maps & the Garmin.
absolutely. well put, Sir. Fine and dandy here, wishing you a positive and inspiring day. Thank you for putting this into words for those who are less articulate than you, I love the steady delivery
I remember I felt like a dork playing my Game Boy while waiting in line at the amusement park back in the early 90s. It wasn't common to see. Now everyone has their faces buried in a screen while doing ANYTHING that was once reserved for silence, introspection, or actual conversation.
"the messages I though were there and weren't there" I know EXACTLY what you talk about. I sporadically do phases of no "smartphone". Just to be focused on the immediate world and when I come back I'm always shocked how people do not even try to engage in meaningful contact anymore. We all have become tools of entertainment or ego to each other. But the real meaningful and authentic is gone. We become super skilled in getting rid of the person, but engage in what we thinks brings more entertainment or social currency.
It can be hard if you’ve become unconsciously addicted to it after years of technology use and abuse, to the point where you have integrated it into your present lifestyle.
Great video thank you for sharing your insight. I've had similar realizations myself when in nature it's so bizarre how much attention and emotion we tie to these little bright rectangles. when you realize all those texts and notifications only have as much power as you give them you can start to view the phone as a tool for creation rather than, a lifestyle. One thing I try to avoid now is opening my phone when there are moments of silence or boredom and especially around other people because I feel like it puts me into NPC mode and I'd rather be a human being
The phone/technology isn't the problem, it's just a tool. The problem is you, as are all your problems. After all if you're not the problem there is no solution.
Exactly. I have a smartphone because I have need of its functions. It serves as an alarm clock, an authenticator for my work and important personal accounts, a camera because I like taking pictures of things, and my only phone because a landline was more expensive than just having the cell number. It is not my portable entertainment device, there are no games installed on it, I do not watch any streaming/video stuff on it. There are no social media apps on it and never will be. It only has 1 gig of data per month, so when I take it with me, its only purpose is for someone to be able to call me while I'm out and about, and maybe to look something up on a map if I need to find a place. Only my close friends and family have access to my number and we don't text each other unless it is important. If we need to talk, we call or actually visit each other to talk face to face. The phone can own you, or, you can own the phone. It's all in how you choose to use it. If a person can't help but be checking their social media crap or answering some random text on their phone every 5 minutes then maybe it is best they not have one, but they aren't 'bad' to have, just bad for some people who don't have self control.
I feel the technology and the phone is a causing a major epidemic for American children that nobody is concerned about. They communicate with a digital filter and now have very little human interaction. this is accelerating an epidemic of mental health.
@@IliketohikeAT how exactly is that the phone's fault? Do phones/tech require that children have access to them, or do parents have to concent? Looks like a parenting problem to me.
@@IliketohikeAT Agreed. Not only American kids, but kids in every developed country. It's easier to ask over the net then getting worried about being rejected in the real world. 😕
As I watch this from my iPad while I scroll through my phone and attempt to work from my laptop 😂😅 I loved this video very insightful and refreshing. Thank you
haha, so refreshing to hear this as many people from the previous generation are saying "back in my day we had no phones you guys are crazy now" in the comments section! thanks for sharing
Or even canoeing for a couple of hours to just get away from the world at your fingertips which I don't have going on now for 6 years or so the old flipper flopper phone just used for emergencies and family talk time or pictures and that's all !!
I found some sort of inner peace earlier this summer, but then i suddenly lost it, couldn’t think of why. I knew it wasn’t using my phone less. It was not silence (like not music or podcast)- but yesterday I figured it was being outside and sitting down. I'm just doing nothing or reading a book (i read think like a monk, so it's kinda relevant to the mindset, I guess). But just the sitting down part, walking in the same area, did not get me this calmness. Very fascinating ❤ Autumn is coming in Norway so it's not that easy to sit comfortably with the rain, but i will try to do is anyway.
The problem of people spending too much time with their smartphones is double-edged as a queer trans person in poverty with autism and CPTSD. I like a lot of old fashioned living- meditation, cooking, exercise and being up for adventure in both the woods and the urban concrete jungle... But I nearly-constantly encounter a lot of hostility and alienation offline because of who I am, and it's only getting worse lately. I used to have a few queer friends and roommates IRL, but they were really narcissistic and glued to their technology way too much- very spiritually dead inside (and not in like, the goth way of just being solemnly real cause that's cool af 🖤) My own people just treated me very poorly...😣I know they had their own traumas to work through, but it was so incredibly hurtful that nobody would ever be present in the moment, and they treated me as if *I* was the problem for wanting boundaries, cooperation, and mindfulness in our shared space, or wanting them to stop lying to me about how they were gonna do the dishes, clean the bathroom, lock the doors behind them, or stop blaring their music when the rest of us need quiet at night etc. For a couple months I started using cannabis more and more just to cope with the way they treated me and I started becoming more like them- in some ways it helped and in others it made everything so much worse. 🌿 I only use the herb medicinally or ritually now, barely twice a month, though I still respect tf outta the good stoners who know how to treat people right and be mindful of each other's needs or their responsibilities. 💚 I do got a really cool friend in downtown Duluth like that I wanna see again when I get paid but I doubt he wants to be tagged here. 😸 I used to be agoraphobic for awhile and could barely leave the house after my roommates left, but now I leave the house almost every day and haven't had a full-on panic attack in 6 weeks! 🧡I've still been a bit depressed and am still slightly sick in the body,🤧but I fight the good fight and I'm happy and thankful to still be here... ...I just hope our society gets our act together and stops being glued to their phones and materialism so much. 😿
@@EllyCatfox just write a book, it’s easier for nobody to read it, nobody cares you bought into/were brainwashed into the John Money scam, you could have provided your experience with tech WITHOUT putting in so much detail how much you hate the body you were born with because of a medical experiment gone horribly horribly wrong in the 20th century and years of medical “professional” and medical document forging around David Reimer’s mutiliation and how it was such a great “success” they mutilated a young boys genitals and lied to him and forced him to grow up as a girl, and now because the doctor that did the surgery (and also sexually abused the boy and his twin) lied to the world and said that his life turned out great when it didn’t, he killed himself, now because of a PDF file’s gender “theories” you are all fucked up in the head and think you’re something you aren’t. Again like I said, nobody gives a shit about your mental disorder so stop telling people who don’t fucking care
@@EllyCatfox and to be real with you, I believe that CSA is a big factor as to why this stuff is so easily eaten up by you folks, it’s vulnerable people being LIED to, you’re in poverty because you never had a chance dude, you’re not ever gonna be a girl, the companies manufacturing these HRT regiments KNOW it’s taking a min of 10 years off of the average humans life span, and they are PROFITING off of your suffering, I just can’t wait for the day when all of y’all realize 10-30 years from now you were VASTLY exploited under the guise of RECLAIMING your IDENTITY nah dude, you have one, it’s the one ingrained in your PERSONALITY that’s your identity, your sexual organs and chromosomes are the only determining factor for IDENTIFYING (see how it’s a different version of the word) sex, sex is NOT idenity, if so all we would be is walking penises and vaginas, and honestly, just from how you all present yourselves, that’s all you want people to see you as, for fucks sake look at the first paragraph of your comment? Who fucking needs to know that or cares?
People in the comments are all biased against phones, they think our problems would be sold if nobody used phones. Things dont work like that. Instead of fighting technology, try to make the most of it.
@togglebutton3312 Yeah, dude... you literally just proved my point. No young adult is going to share that viewpoint because they literally can't function in society without one. Our society is phone centric, and if you aren't already established in it. It's pretty much impossible to get going if you don't have one. Too much stuff requires you to have it, and it provides too big an advantage.
I have a flip phone and the only social media I participate in is TH-cam videos. I love my simplified life. Thank you for this insightful video. I hope everyone can take some time to get outside and walk around on the earth with your precious bare feet. Love & Light ! 🌞🌞🌞
I biked the entire length of Baja California with just a Garmin GPS. For safety reason, the Garmin has texting capability; but I did not use it. The internet is a distraction that I can live without.
I remember in the early 1980's; long before there was an internet. We used libraries to find out about things. We met people face to face and figured things out together. The "be-on you phone" culture is making everybody "more intelligent" every day. But, they are really getting to be more and more BRAIN-DEAD.
Libraries are in many ways ineff. What's nice is that you can have an actual teacher through the internet to teach you thi gs rather than trying to figure it out on your own. It's an improvement. I cam also buy books I can find in a local bookstore thanks to the internet
‘The internet really highlights to us the things that aren’t in our control, that never have been in our control’. This is so profoundly true and why our collective anxiety has increased since the internet.
Mental illness is rising alarmingly, especially among young people, started happening about the time of the rise of the smartphone, coincedence? I'm glad I am not on social media, saw a commentator saying it's like all the village idiots gathered at the local park yelling at eachother.
There are studies about human developement and "screen time", but they stopped the study because scientists were afraid that the parents sue them to study screen time of kids and the effects. 😉
I often wonder how it might have felt before phones and computers and rapid transportation to write letters to loved ones who lived far away or to travel by sea for months on end... The goodbyes felt more finite, I imagine, and if you received a letter back I bet it was a wonderfully intense blend of relief and excitement. I like to think we can still organize our worlds for slowness, maybe not entirely, but we can practice meditation and mindfulness, we can choose to use flip phones, we can limit the screens we have access to. We can cultivate slowness and presence in our daily lives and appreciate the technologies we use for the tools they provide. The key is establishing boundaries and limiting the types of technology we actively engage with.
So, the title says; the results were terrifying.... I didn't hear any of that in this video.... It is misleading as the video was about being away from smartphone... So was that so terrifying..?
I think the point was that in modern western civilization, the vast majority rely in smartphones and maintaining an online presence and measure their sense of self based on what the internet says about them so this revelation could be construed as "terrifying" because it challenges and undermines everything people understand as "reality"
I have some kind of internet/youtube addiction for sure. But I always use the computer... Phone always inherantly feels too small for that. So I never look at my phone if I go outside. Or while talking to people. Never even felt the urge to do that for some reason. Its just when I decide to go inside.
i may be a bit younger than most here i would assume, but what you describe, i felt a longer time as well. ever since i quit (most) social media, i have felt much better about myself. i have been thinking about living in a forest cabin for a couple days - maybe one day. i can only recommend to have some controlled downtime in your day. even if it means to just stare at the ceiling and let your mind wander (maybe with some music in the background) be safe and take care everyone thank you for this thoughtful video
This resonates with me as I am currently weaning myself off smartphone. My first trip was with android and using widgets to display my calendar and keep notes, rather than distracting icons with numbers. Then I tried black and white. At this point I have already turned off voicemail. My current step is in having podcasts via an (old school) mp3 player. I configured software to download podcast episodes about sef improvement and philosophy. Currently I find no need to use my phone on my daily commute into London. I'm now looking at getting rid of the bloat on my computer. I try and enjoy the outdoors.
I do like that’s we have knowledge at our finger tips though. As much as smartphones might be hindering us there are things that we can do with smart phones tags we weren’t able to do before. I know what you man and I have learned to monitor and schedule how much I use my phone. It’s all about balance and how much screen time you are participating in. You don’t necessarily have to cut yourself off from the world you can in moderations use this technology. Don’t let it control you be the controller of your technology.
smart watch is the way to go. Been off my phone for 4 weeks now, feel like my life is coming back. apple watch ultra 2 with cellular works as a phone minus the addicting, distracting, toxic things
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@@thedavidboland cash and land lines. I’m fine. CDs… old soul resistant to this ….. desired manipulation. Hope you’re well . A appreciate your intention.
Very cheesy video. I grew up in the 90s before all of this tech, but the first PC I got only enriched my life. Access to the internet only gave me access to endless knowledge which was previously limited by that one encyclopedia I had. And phones can connect me with true friends around the world! No more snail mail that takes two months to send... Oh and discovering forgotten 70s songs at the touch of a button on a warm balcony sipping tea is just priceless...
A lot of you are using this tech wrong. You're not supposed to feel anxious and miserable using it!
Ready to die. You?
@@racerx2580 Bruh, seek help.
You are right but something started to change and that's what is the biggest Fear. NO Revolution but Evolution and you have chosen to react Pro Active . We are all in this together.
"As we get closer to the end, the world is going to go faster and faster. You must not do likewise. In fact, if you wish to survive, the faster the world is going, the slower you must go." - Native American prophecy
Not to be a dick but the Native Americans didn't exactly stand up to the colonisers...not really a bunch of people I'd take advice from
@@skyblazeeternothey probably wouldn't have lost if not for the sickness the colonisers brought. Like seriously, the deaths were estimated to be around 95% over the hundred odd years of so
@@skyblazeeternolook it up, it's nih research
Where is this written?
@@piggynatorcool668 Most analyses indicate that they would have lost, but the "victory" of the Europeans would have been so costly for the European powers that they might well have abandoned colonization efforts out of sheer necessity. Very interesting stuff tbh
The thing that most annoys me is that you pretty much cant now deal with any external entities without a phone. So many insist on sending text message codes in order to access services.
limit the services. or just use for the texts and nothing else. have self control.
@@spiritsofearthget a flip phone
I'm with you. It's not even just a text or a call. Annoying but there is some justification for them. Its the next step they truly bugs me. They are trying to insist on yet another app being installed. Another account being created.
💯 2 factor authentication is the death of humanity!
@@GeoFry3 Get a folding phone and configure the folded screen to only have the bare essentials. No distractions while it's folded, and if you absolutely need a full featured phone you just unfold it.
Getting ready to retire and plan to ditch the phone and limit internet. I have grown a personal library that I hope to spend years devouring without thoughts of what the world thinks about everything.
Love that!
When I get to retirement I plan the same
Man...I've never been so envious of someone twice my age
Congratulations! Sounds like a excellent plan
You can't retire without phone and internet. If you want to retire you need to invest. How will you invest in DeFi or stocks without your phone? 😊 Or have multiple incomes, career choices, etc.?
Fun fact:
There was a time when nobody had cell phones. Most people had a landline…and pay phones were everywhere. Kids played outside and people talked to each other much more. That glorious time was called the 80’s and 90’s and that’s the era I grew up in not so long ago…
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its a damn shame the youth have been brainwashed to the extent they have and will never know that beautiful time period. it felt like the good times would continue on forever.... never would of dreamed this is where the world would be
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Everything is getting so expensive, maybe it’s an opportunity to revive some of the oldies but goodies free hang out sessions that were the norm back then. Game nights are a good start, fewer people cancel because they know what they will be doing, know they can talk about the game, there is often an exit time as well.
This is essentially why people turn republican as they age. Most people stop learning and growing their minds and just stay with their belief until they age into being "conservative" in their views.
And then you have this person complaining about technology using technology... irony.
I'm mourning so much lately for the pre-panopticon. This is the hardest thing to radically accept... It's so boring and weird now.
I lost my smartphone about 2 years ago for 1 week. I could not log into my work because the company decided we had to use our phones to identify ourselves. I couldn’t access my bank accounts because the bank required me to confirm my ID with my phone. I couldn’t access other very important accounts because they all required the same. I couldn’t even order food at some restaurants because their menu has to be looked up on your phone. I realized then that I had already been check mated. We have already lost control to the beast. Try to separate yourself as much as possible
Its sad, you go out to a place and everyone else is into their own bubble even if you choose to leave your phone at home or keep tech to a minimum.
The QR code menu pisses me off. I understand not wanting to have menus that need to be cleaned and updated, so just print out some paper ones!
Restaurants will order a whole box of coloring menus for kids, but can't use a printer for a physical copy of their menu.
“The BEAST System,” is exactly right. Revelation 14:9-11 King James Version (KJV)
“And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”
YES Man ! You see clearly the false virtual reality that we are lock in ! Go back into the wood and live simply , if possible , and with sensitive persones .
Yeah I had a similar experience recently. It's not good
TH-cam is the only thing I use now because I can choose my topics and entertainment.
Closed Facebook years ago. Closed Instagram last year. I use the phone for banking, buying used books and music. That’s it really.
That's the trap. I only use (insert best media here)
You can do that without your phone, ya know.
Same here
the point is that we are the ones directing our behavior for reasons. Mindless anything makes things meaningless no matter what it is. Cell phones are great camera's allowing us to show pictures with family. That is pretty much what my cell is for. Don't ask me to show you how to use the internet on it
I like using a computer, so when I am not at the PC my attention is fully where I am at. Plus I have house plants taking over most of my office and a big window to the back yard full of trees and sunlight shining right in from the right side of the room right next to the desk.
I miss the 90s😭 we were so...in the moment, looked each other in the eye, the whole face, had hourlong conversations. Didnt even know what time it was most of the day
I agree, the 80's too. OMG I was just talking about this with a dear friend the other day. We laughed because we said we got away with so much and were so adventurous back then, the best part is that there's no proof, lol. Living in the moment was the thing to do.
I remember when I knew where I was driving all the time... Now I just follow the blue line... It's terrible for my brain
Ah, the sweet smell of nostalgia. That reminds me that Yars Rising is about to drop soon.
Why don't you do this now?
Anytime is reachable. It's you who left the scene.
I considered returning to instagram this week after almost a year, and then I saw this video. I think I’ll continue my social media hiatus.
mentally week people can't make these choices for themself.
"I considered returning to Instagram but decided to watch TH-cam."
@@murcoxc youtube is significantly better than instagram or tik tok
@@dreamleaf6784It's more like cable TV but on-demand. It's definitely not "social media".
I deleted my instagram a few years ago and I have no inclination of getting another one
I’m a dinosaur. Don’t carry a phone. Don’t miss it. I do use technology because I’m forced to. Still use my land line as much as possible. Birds. Rain. Grass. Conversation. None of these can be duplicated by a screen.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing ❤
Me too, and I'm "only" 47.
No landlines soon to be discontinued here in uk
That's ridiculous.
People are going to start renouncing the use of smart phones etc. for the sheer lack of privacy.
I struggled with social media/phone addiction from 15 - 19 years old. I quit everything (except youtube) in March 2021 after realising my average screen time daily was 14 hours. I'm 22 now & use my phone minimally, write lists/journaling with pen & paper, read physical books & buy physical DVDs/video games for the first time in YEARS. Although it's improved my life greatly, it's harmed my social life. All my friends look at me weirdly & treat me like an alien, anytime I'm with them they're on their phones most of the time completely zoned out like zombies. It's horrible how drowned society has become in the digital world, I'd give anything to live back in the 70s/80s/90s & embrace a more simple life. I really have to fight temptation to go back to that digital world, it's a legitimate addiction I don't wish on anyone.
I'm glad that you are getting over your social media addiction, hopefully you will make more friends that will not be hooked on their phones. Also, the 70s/80s/90s were not simpler, I don't know where that perception came from, the 'good old days' are always viewed through rose tinted glasses.
It decreases your quality of life so drastically and people dont even realize. Their whole life is on their devices
We don’t possess smartphones, they possess us and btw I believe they and all the social media are created to do exactly that. We have a huge responsibility in our hands, especially for our children. Who do we want to be for them? A free, happy, simple yet complex human being rooted in nature? Or a compulsive, possessed, de-rooted half-robot?
(I prefer to be the first one even though it sometimes seems to be very hard😅❤)
Omg, that's the take away you get from this video with cheesy music?? If a phone controls you so much, you're using it improperly. Yesterday I listened to 70s chill rock and had the most wonderful time drinking tea on the balcony! Technology improves my life!
Said while you scroll youtube.
TV was the same, zapping was no different from tiktok, nor were cartoons for children designed to be ads for toys (these exist on youtube too). What I feel we really lost is... Time. Time to be with children and play with them, time we have to spend working our lives away. How can anybody be at fault when all the energy they have at the end of the day is to sit and hook themselves and their children to tablets/TV?
I've noticed that since Covid, our society has started absoloutely requiring smartphones in some places.
I tend to avoid those places if I can.
“No one could buy or sell without the mark.”
@@belle8i Religious delusions.
Thats also when they quietly installed the 5G towers everywhere under everyone's noses and knowledge.
We go in a lot of camping trips and it is now normal to use a smartphone to reserve campsite on the fly. When you get there, there is no one to talk to. There may be a camp host, but they don't have anything to do with the reservation system, except for taking inventory of campers. The hosts are nice people. The reason i cite this example is to give evidence of how smartphones are ubiquitous. If you don't have access to mobile Internet you might literally not be able to camp in many US National Parks and forests. There is something sad about that. I'm writing this comment ony smartphone. I just returned from a week of backpacking. I found myself looking for a signal at a high pass. I got one. I sent a friend two photos. Seemed okay to do that. But I have to wonder.
Totally agree! I was on youtube way too long yesterday and started feeling discontent. Went for a walk and came back home, colored and studied French. Felt much better❤🙏🏾
Love that!
@@thedavidboland ❤️
I turned off my notifications a few days ago. Just doing that helped.
@@Junkyard_Dog Agreed! My phone rings/dings if I'm getting a call or a text from family or friends. Everyone/thing else can wait.
Me too, I used it way too long... But I learned something new! I'm learning about astrophysics, law and social issues, even how to cook delicious Indian curries... But if phones ruin your daily life and make you feeling despaired, then you're not using it properly!
You definitely don't need to bother with all the Mr Beast drama and all that.
Pick up a hobby and let the internet enrich you! I'm learning crocheting with one phone and listening to 70s music on another phone!
All this whining of "phones ruin me" mostly reflect your own miserable personality and that means you can feel that way even with other non-tech hobbies, like cycling or painting.
I went 3 months with a dumb phone.
My son missed 2 friends birthdays, I couldnt pay for his basketball fees, couldn't order him lunch,or communicate with his football team. All those were through apps.
I can stomach the impact on my life, but the impact on my kid was too big. Had to go back to the smart phone. Was so angry how manipulated we are.
We need dumbphones with messengers, not only calls
I think it's only because you're not used to smartphone-free life. Meet the football team in person, take a packed lunch, arrange to pay in cash in person or by cheque. Easy really.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I am on my fourth year without a smart phone now and I am never going back. I also limit my interaction with email and online activity to one hour five days a week. It is amazing for creativity and inner peace. Again, thank you for sharing your perspective.
@@BjornAndreasBull-Hansen thanks Bjorn, and thanks for all the insights you share too!
So happy for you. I still remember saying how I was afraid what would happen if I got once, myself...have been addicted since. But I can feel that I'm about to change that very soon. :) thanks for the encouragment.
It's impossible for me to make this change in my work and career. I literally can't leave the smartphone behind during the day, because of the authentication apps.
Hi Bjorn, I sometimes watch your channel, enjoy your perspective on life, greetings from New Zealand.
This video immediately made me think of you. Funny how I found you in the comments too ^^
Flip phone user...49 years old no internet when I leave the house and I'm still alive and well.
I'll tell you what I told my grandfather when he mentioned he didn't use the internet after the 90s when call-in tech support services were directly used- you seriously dodged a bullet
Way too much has happened for me to even process over the last 10 years
Me too.
I'm in a weird spot. I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s. I had a bit of internet, but I was a nerdy kid and knew my way around a computer. But I definitely hate social media and how common it is for people to be online.
People who are different, nerd, awkward. They belong online. The preppy girl who had 30 friends has no reason other than to be entertained.
The majority of the internet now is "entertainment" and not socialization or learning. I use less websites with algorithms, less websites with infinite scrolling. I limit that to just TH-cam maybe a few hours on a slow day with no art inspiration, maybe 30 minutes on a productive day when I'm walking my dog. I look for information, art tutorials, independent news.
We all need some downtime, too, but man. Socializing on your 30s is already hard enough. But everyone is so set in their ways, having their circles, and not trying to engage. Granted, we're all tired. As Americans, at least, we've been commodified and dehumanized by mega corporations running our country. So we cope, we escape. But we've got to admit we need to actually interact, too.
That's me went back to the old flipper flopper phone for I can use my laptop at home for those internet conveniences which isn't much for the world has for the most part gone apey over them smartass phones not me if I want to act like a zombie I just watch it on my favorite show the Walking Dead !!!
A creaky high five to you, from someone in the same boat!
When we only had landline phones, we also felt these insecurities. “Why is no one calling me? Doesn’t anyone want to do anything with me.”
The smartphone isn’t the problem. The problem is social media and how we’ve been trained to desire positive feedback from strangers. Desiring feedback is the biggest change. We’ve been trained to do care much too deeply what strangers think.
I agree completely. You deserve a like :)
Zuckerberg created Facebook as a glorified college yearbook application where he could rate college girls with his salacious buddies. That's all you really need to know about Facebook. It's just an extension of your high school yearbook.
This is why I don’t understand social media. Who cares what strangers think? It’s bizarre.
I like TH-cam because I enjoy reading how other people think about things because it can be different from my thoughts. I turned off notifications for TH-cam and have no idea when my comments get responses. It’s just out there in the aether that is the internet. I had to for my own sanity. It’s much simpler to use TH-cam as a way to express thoughts almost like a journal using the comments section. But a journal you don’t go back to. I liken it to long form public bathroom scribble but a bit more interesting and engaging.
The search bar is also very distracting
Desire feedback from ourselves not external people. The only person whos approval and feedback matters is your own and your inner childs.
Us old people have been yelling for years that life was better before invasive technology ... I'm not even against technology but around 2008 it started to overtake reality
I am young and have been yelling this for years
I’m 18 and I’ve been saying the same. This time is different, it’s not like televisions and computers we tethered and left at home. As soon as we could take the internet with us, the world began to die.
I think some day there'll be a movement calling on to discard social media and it'll be cheered and supported by the youth.
it's already happening slowly
It won’t be voluntary but ur correct…the internet is not freedom of information but rather controlling the information we have access to…before long, the channels that provide real history won’t be allowed…it will all be the same bs we have with tv media….lies and rhetoric and then they will take it away after everything has been updated to need the internet to operate. I went to put fuel in my car one day the internet was down. They couldn’t even sell me fuel for my car! The pumps are all controlled via the internet! Let that sink in! Our power grid is also like this! They take the internet away and we won’t even be able to power our homes!
It's happening now
No.
What's crazy, is they wouldn't know, what they don't know
We lived like this for millions of years befote the last thirty or so, and so it is strange how we are SO addicted to being "connected" that we feel strange when we aren't. In actuality, when we are off social media and without our computers and cell phones, we are really "connected". The sad thing is there is no going back and it will change our entire human experience and society as we have known it for millions of years. And not for the better.
I saw a person comment on another TH-cam video...."That's why they call it a 'cell' phone." I found that single statement profound and so true, the cellphone keeps us "locked" up. Locked up to what? Nothing that is important just nonsense.
I agree wholeheartedly 🙏🏼🕊️🌹
Humans haven't been around for millions of years but i get your point. Civilizations began around 6000 years ago. And before that we lived with nature just as animals but with intelligence. Even looking at pre industrialization which historically isnt that long ago, we've rapidly vastly changed how we live.
Too rapidly. We cant exist with and next to the natural world and then in 2 generations condition everyone to live in small, climate-controlled boxes where all the difficulties of life are convenienced away. Taking us out of the processes of life, shielding us from the realities of it. It has made a profoundly sick society.
@@VoltageNostalgia This way of living isn't sustainable. Birth rates are very low in many countries, it's only a matter of time before the entire world stops having babies.
Not just addicted, but how required it is in society to have one. There are now many jobs that require you have a smartphone or they won’t hire you.
If you watch live concerts from the 70s, 80s, 90s, nobody’s holding up a stupid hellphone. Everyone’s dancing, laughing, smiling, living in the NOW ❤ that’s what it’s all about.
Everyone held their lighters in the air, LOL
Yeah, because they didn't exist...
@@elfi_sternenstaub have you also noticed… tempo has been altered. Sped up. Changes the emotional capacity to the songs. I hate it. Music person for 40 yrs. Screen music is altered. Living NOW is buying the “illusion “.
Sad younger generation nowadays that have no concept of such days, and actually think the life lived today is normalcy.
Cameras were not allowed at concerts
56, never had a smart phone. Love my C3520. I'm fine.
miss my little nokia.
Im 23 and a bit of a shut-in, so im usually online very consistently, playing games, talking with friends i met online etc. but, what i dont use is normal social media. (facebook, twitter, etc.)
I dont really keep up with whats happening, living in my own little bubble.
I like it this way.
I understand the people wanting to completely cut out technology, but in my case, its what i grew up with. I hardly know anybody in my local area outside of family, so im afraid of being truly alone if i ever decided to not make use of technology to talk to the few people ive met online.
For me talking to friends is enough.
Might be (and except for the online friends I'm perhaps not even so much different because of my chronic ME/CFS health issues).
But what are you going to do in a longlasting blackout?
You'll be completely alone...
We're all alone, together
Thank you David. You & I are of the same ilk. I made a video about how my smart phone ruined my life. I would return to a world without screens in a heartbeat. I find we are all becoming more isolated. I am in Dublin & I feel the city has become disconnected, strange. It used to be vibrant & social! Bright blessings & I appreciate your work 💫
No smart phone (landline at home), no TV, yes I have a laptop at home; no social media...people wonder how I live. I tell them this is a choice and there's intentionality to living like this. I walked the El Camino de Santiago (ancient pilgrimage route) across Spain 10 years ago with no technology. Friends of mine offered to buy me a phone, "what if you die"; well, then I die, I will one day and no presence of a cell phone is going to stop THAT. I trusted that the set of dog tags around my neck would get my corpse home. It's the anxiety of OTHERS that is the hardest thing to deal with. I pick up on a condescension in people who learn of my no cell life. My spirituality is deeper than ever, and hardly anyone is curious about THAT....they're more interested in the newest app.
Last step is to quit youtube (also social media)
You're writing to strangers on you tube comments. Welcome to social media.
@@exmas3284 You are so right about that! That's so funny, I never considered making comments on youtube social media, but duh 'social media'. You can tell I don't get out much!
@@helenhawkins2107 That's funny and you're right; for some reason I did not think that making comments on youtube was social media! So I'm not as off the grid as I thought! Ugh!
It is sad how people judge so quickly. Most don't bother to be curious and just ask 'Why?'.
Good talk. There are a lot of dissenters now... Just last evening I turned my phone OFF, which I never do. My mind felt like an addict's must be. I also felt weirdly guilty about what I might miss. It kept me from sleeping at first. I have the same sentiments as others have posted here. If we are not conscious of how we use technology, then we are being used, and all the problems that come along with it are only going to get worse.
How did you sit there and record in 1 take without having any ummm or errrrrs?!
I strive for that much clarity and freeness from my mind to my mouth.
Awesome video bud
To be honest there are several cuts in here, someone even walked into the shot whilst I was filming but that being said, speaking slowly helps me to be more articulate. Um and eh can be replaced with space or breath - that’s all I’ve done here.
Thanks for your lovely comment ❤
I've never owned a smartphone. The only thing that's smart is not owning one. The first person that I know to own one came round to my house and just stared at it and that put me right off. I have a phone, yes. I have a computer, yes. But I don't want my entire life ruled by a piece of technology.
People are starved for attention these days. Also don't know how to have a face to face convo.
technology impedes freedom. think of the car and how city planning is designed with the automobile in mind (not humans) even if you want to buck the system and boycott the automobile, it still dictates your movement. we can not cross the street without the traffic lights permission lest one of those machines takes us out. it's a horrifying realization that ted k wasn't wrong.
I have been out of social media for almost 3 years, and I can tell you, with even my parents, everyone i had contact with is comfortable numb, like robots. It's no surprise why everyone says time is flying, like, yeah, bro, leave that phone, go outside, discover life. My last hope is to continue being "offline" because I believe there are people like me, not so much, but at least someone from my generation, early 99'.
Im mid 99 as well, i havent found anybody my own age like me but luckily there are some folks that are a little older that i found to be more like us. A lot of kids in our generation were on the cusp but some of the kids with techy or more open parents got them internet and devices and some didnt. Just got to find the ones who didnt.
@breannathompson9094 I feel that buddy, same with me. With people minimum 5 years older, it was and still is double easier. Why? Idk.
communication has allowed us to connect to ppl much further away at the cost of distancing us from the ppl nearby/
I stopped instagram a few months ago. Other ‚social’ media is not existent in my life. Only thing left is TH-cam. And the smartphone. And still, that’s too much. It fckn drains energy out of my body. I can’t wait for the day in near future when we will all throw them away ❤
Most of my life there were no computers, no mobile phones, no internet, TV had one channel, then two, we got a landline in the 80s.
No microwave ovens, no games consols.
The list goes on.
They were far far far better times.
People knew their friends, neighbours, families etc.
They had to make an effort.
If you said you were going to be somewhere, you couldn't and didn't cancel last minute.
Food was cooked from scratch, using ingredients and not just a packet thrown in a box for two minutes to heat up.
We as children rode bikes miles and miles, we built dens, we went camping, we hunted and fished, we painted, did woodwork, played games.
Familes would get together for picnics and walks.
I won't go on but humanity, loyalty, love, faith, commitment, debate, freedom, and all sorts of other beneficial things have been totally destroyed by this technology.
It is sad to behold.
We were taken by cruel entities. We are just lowly, weak sheep. It's slowly sinking in and hurts tremendously.
I just can't recognize this existence. A feeling of extreme loss. Only when I dwell on it.
All deliberately done. Destroy society and “build back better “ 🤢🤨
I can relate. A person made a date to meet me somewhere, her idea, and cancelled last minute on cell after I was already there like it was OK, and of course I was wrong for not being understanding. We had them over for a holiday dinner she laid her cell phone on our dining table while we ate as if that was more important. These devices are ruining just common decency. But it does point out the shallow people. Not wasting any more effort on that friendship!
what most really can't see is WHO is really DOING this and WHO is "they"... And that's the reason why all of this is happening to us. Do you know who "they" are? Starts with a j - vvs@@nedcramdon1306
Technology didn't do that, capitalism did
I love how etherial this video is.
The sense of being in the woods with you and feeling the wind on my face is great.
Even how you shot this from so far away with the clear audio gives a sense that we are so small vs nature
loved this format, big wide camera angle, nature, slow music, real meaning
Am not on any social media platforms, never will be…yes I have a smart phone but use it only for messaging & calls…I bought it 2nd hand so it is nowhere near new yet does the job.
I love nature & what you were describing sounded like bliss to me…a wood fire is how I cook my meals… love it! Thank you for a calming informative video. Cheers from Aus 👩🌾
sometimes youtube is more commucative and educational it will give you knowledge and information you want to hear from others and it motivates you to keep going in life
My Dad lived without a cell phone for 76 years (1947 - 2023), and he hated the idea of having one. He got along fine without it.
The problem with doing this in a town or city is that they aren't built that way anymore. No payphones, no maps, everything requires an app to sign in. People don't live without a phone because they can't anymore.
I have never owned a phone and get along with no issues.
i quit booze 3.5 years ago. deleted all social media other than youtube a year ago, I switched from smart phone back to flip phone 2.5 months ago. The only things I own are what I need at this point to survive, cut all bills out or lowered the needed ones....my life has changed for the better. I'm reading more, and I am finding it is easier to live in the moment...I realized I have everything in front of me to be happy. I don't need anything more
@togglebutton3312 he probably still has a computer, super useful for printing things or doing other work
Half my life there was no internet and mobile phones...
I have never owned a smart phone ...i got those "old" "with buttons".
All i see around me is people looking at their phones , noone gives a look around.
i m grateful i have no smartphone...no facebook..no tik tok.
Great monologue and great story here mate. May I point out something about your soundtrack though? Although some people may think it's cool to have a soundtrack like that in the background, I do think it deters from something much more significant--and to me more interesting: the amazing chorus of natural sound all around you, such as the tree leaves dancing in the wind. It would be more appropriate to your topic also.
I agree, that background sound is annoying and distracting.
Yes it is wack
Very good point for this subject. Including the environmental sounds alone would have been perfect.
I also agree, it's so cheesy and gives off a perception that being "phoneless" is some benevolent, superior experience. If a smartphone makes you feel anxious and miserable, then you aren't using it correctly 😂
Well, I liked it 😅
I'm 68 years old and I got my first "smart phone" in 2017. I didn't have any idea how to use it. After about a month I started to figure it out but I quickly realized that it could become an addiction. I saw people walking around staring into the phone like it had some kind of mesmerizing effect.
I use it very sparingly and I hate to think about how the younger generation is going to cope when we don't have any internet anymore. We're so close to annihilation from a nuclear war.
I see lots of old fogies glued to their phones and ipad's or whatever, all the time.
I've never even used one. Computer's more than enough. (Way too much lately)
You assume its a problem.
@@nedcramdon1306 - Wow, what an attitude. "Old fogies"? Shame on you. Watch your words.
I honestly don't forsee the use of nukes again, but our grid is very temperamental and poorly maintained, so we could be in deep trouble if/when it breaks down. No internet wouldn't be as big of an issue as no food or water. Very troubling to contemplate.
A few years ago it wasn´t a problem for most 50+ folks. Nowadays they´re pretty much exactly as addicted as the youth. My parents are constantly on the phone and i hear it from many many other friends too.
Its really funny that some people comment on not using smart phones, Internet and other tech but they watched and commented on this vid using tech, 🤔
Those that truly don't use smartphones and tech are out there doing things and don't know about this vid
"The monstrous stories about messages that weren't there", that hit hard. During isolation hardly anyone(family and friends) reached out to see if I was alright (I lived alone through the whole thing)
Since then I've cut them all out because I realised what a gift that was to see, how insignificant I was to them and how much energy I wasted thinking about them. Now I have the capacity to create because my life force isn't being drained by assholes constantly taking me for granted 🙏
this would be very cool to try! 5 days no phone. outstanding. thank you for the reflection on this.
thanks for watching! wishing you a lovely day
I only watch youtube, no X no telegram, Netflix or anything else, I'm having a hard time with spammers twice a day for two weeks and continuing so I don't like my smart phone at the moment the spam callers get blocket each call but they keep ringing using different numbers, so glad I found your video thanks x
That’s why I go backpacking at least 3 times a year. Just got back from a solo hike deep near Canada this week. Peaceful af.
My wife and I made the decision at the end of 2021 to sell our smartphones and use the most basic device we could find. Found a decent little phone that still had the capacity for maps, notepad, and a few others but no social media or browser capacity. Used this up until 2023 when I was publicly threatened with termination from my job because I could not use a new app they made mandatory. I found a new job, but in the interim I had to move back to an iPhone. My life was quieter then, and I appreciated not being able to get hounded by work at all hours. My current role is too dependent on 365 to live without a smartphone now, but that period in 2022 really taught us how to intentionally put these awful things down and really focus on what’s in front of us. I’m thankful for 2022.
Know that your experience is subjective. I just did an 8-day hike over 78 miles with no phone and it wasn't as profound as your experience because I do it all the time. YOU are in control of these experiences.
Yes! Exactly. Now I long for the disconnects if I can't hike.
I haven't even gone on more than a 6-day backpacking trip...yet.
Pretty hard to stay off grid when you work in IT.
I still use the phone for camera & downloaded maps & the Garmin.
@@dantheradiomanyou can use offline maps on your watch and take photos with a camera. No smartphone needed
absolutely. well put, Sir. Fine and dandy here, wishing you a positive and inspiring day. Thank you for putting this into words for those who are less articulate than you, I love the steady delivery
I remember I felt like a dork playing my Game Boy while waiting in line at the amusement park back in the early 90s. It wasn't common to see. Now everyone has their faces buried in a screen while doing ANYTHING that was once reserved for silence, introspection, or actual conversation.
I use to take bus everyday and I see almost everybody look at their smartphones, it looks like an addiction
"the messages I though were there and weren't there" I know EXACTLY what you talk about. I sporadically do phases of no "smartphone". Just to be focused on the immediate world and when I come back I'm always shocked how people do not even try to engage in meaningful contact anymore. We all have become tools of entertainment or ego to each other. But the real meaningful and authentic is gone. We become super skilled in getting rid of the person, but engage in what we thinks brings more entertainment or social currency.
Born in 72, I remember the 80s, and miss that way terribly. It was more fun in real life…
Thanks for the reminder on this and bringing it to people's attention that need it. Much love and gratitude 🙏🏽
It's not hard to live without a smartphone... I am 34 and have never had a smart phone in all these years!
It can be hard if you’ve become unconsciously addicted to it after years of technology use and abuse, to the point where you have integrated it into your present lifestyle.
I'm afraid to be so blunt but the smart phone is not the problem. People just love lies because they chose their father.
Great video thank you for sharing your insight. I've had similar realizations myself when in nature it's so bizarre how much attention and emotion we tie to these little bright rectangles.
when you realize all those texts and notifications only have as much power as you give them you can start to view the phone as a tool for creation rather than, a lifestyle.
One thing I try to avoid now is opening my phone when there are moments of silence or boredom and especially around other people because I feel like it puts me into NPC mode and I'd rather be a human being
The phone/technology isn't the problem, it's just a tool. The problem is you, as are all your problems. After all if you're not the problem there is no solution.
Exactly. I have a smartphone because I have need of its functions. It serves as an alarm clock, an authenticator for my work and important personal accounts, a camera because I like taking pictures of things, and my only phone because a landline was more expensive than just having the cell number. It is not my portable entertainment device, there are no games installed on it, I do not watch any streaming/video stuff on it. There are no social media apps on it and never will be. It only has 1 gig of data per month, so when I take it with me, its only purpose is for someone to be able to call me while I'm out and about, and maybe to look something up on a map if I need to find a place. Only my close friends and family have access to my number and we don't text each other unless it is important. If we need to talk, we call or actually visit each other to talk face to face.
The phone can own you, or, you can own the phone. It's all in how you choose to use it. If a person can't help but be checking their social media crap or answering some random text on their phone every 5 minutes then maybe it is best they not have one, but they aren't 'bad' to have, just bad for some people who don't have self control.
I feel the technology and the phone is a causing a major epidemic for American children that nobody is concerned about. They communicate with a digital filter and now have very little human interaction. this is accelerating an epidemic of mental health.
@@IliketohikeAT how exactly is that the phone's fault? Do phones/tech require that children have access to them, or do parents have to concent? Looks like a parenting problem to me.
@@johnfisher9969 I guess you can blame a lot of things. I’m just stating a fact.
@@IliketohikeAT Agreed. Not only American kids, but kids in every developed country. It's easier to ask over the net then getting worried about being rejected in the real world. 😕
As I watch this from my iPad while I scroll through my phone and attempt to work from my laptop 😂😅 I loved this video very insightful and refreshing. Thank you
My grandfather never used a smartphone. He was still the grumpiest man Ive ever seen.
haha, so refreshing to hear this as many people from the previous generation are saying "back in my day we had no phones you guys are crazy now" in the comments section! thanks for sharing
Thank you for your presence and all you present here 😌🙏🏾 I greatly appreciate your creations Noble Sir.
9:00 "that's easier in the woods, than in real life." 🙃
I think you nailed it when you said ‘go create’. Only ‘real’ people can create.
3 hour bike ride is a 3 hour detox
Or even canoeing for a couple of hours to just get away from the world at your fingertips which I don't have going on now for 6 years or so the old flipper flopper phone just used for emergencies and family talk time or pictures and that's all !!
I found some sort of inner peace earlier this summer, but then i suddenly lost it, couldn’t think of why. I knew it wasn’t using my phone less. It was not silence (like not music or podcast)- but yesterday I figured it was being outside and sitting down. I'm just doing nothing or reading a book (i read think like a monk, so it's kinda relevant to the mindset, I guess). But just the sitting down part, walking in the same area, did not get me this calmness. Very fascinating ❤ Autumn is coming in Norway so it's not that easy to sit comfortably with the rain, but i will try to do is anyway.
The problem of people spending too much time with their smartphones is double-edged as a queer trans person in poverty with autism and CPTSD. I like a lot of old fashioned living- meditation, cooking, exercise and being up for adventure in both the woods and the urban concrete jungle... But I nearly-constantly encounter a lot of hostility and alienation offline because of who I am, and it's only getting worse lately.
I used to have a few queer friends and roommates IRL, but they were really narcissistic and glued to their technology way too much- very spiritually dead inside (and not in like, the goth way of just being solemnly real cause that's cool af 🖤) My own people just treated me very poorly...😣I know they had their own traumas to work through, but it was so incredibly hurtful that nobody would ever be present in the moment, and they treated me as if *I* was the problem for wanting boundaries, cooperation, and mindfulness in our shared space, or wanting them to stop lying to me about how they were gonna do the dishes, clean the bathroom, lock the doors behind them, or stop blaring their music when the rest of us need quiet at night etc.
For a couple months I started using cannabis more and more just to cope with the way they treated me and I started becoming more like them- in some ways it helped and in others it made everything so much worse. 🌿 I only use the herb medicinally or ritually now, barely twice a month, though I still respect tf outta the good stoners who know how to treat people right and be mindful of each other's needs or their responsibilities. 💚 I do got a really cool friend in downtown Duluth like that I wanna see again when I get paid but I doubt he wants to be tagged here. 😸
I used to be agoraphobic for awhile and could barely leave the house after my roommates left, but now I leave the house almost every day and haven't had a full-on panic attack in 6 weeks! 🧡I've still been a bit depressed and am still slightly sick in the body,🤧but I fight the good fight and I'm happy and thankful to still be here...
...I just hope our society gets our act together and stops being glued to their phones and materialism so much. 😿
@@EllyCatfox just write a book, it’s easier for nobody to read it, nobody cares you bought into/were brainwashed into the John Money scam, you could have provided your experience with tech WITHOUT putting in so much detail how much you hate the body you were born with because of a medical experiment gone horribly horribly wrong in the 20th century and years of medical “professional” and medical document forging around David Reimer’s mutiliation and how it was such a great “success” they mutilated a young boys genitals and lied to him and forced him to grow up as a girl, and now because the doctor that did the surgery (and also sexually abused the boy and his twin) lied to the world and said that his life turned out great when it didn’t, he killed himself, now because of a PDF file’s gender “theories” you are all fucked up in the head and think you’re something you aren’t. Again like I said, nobody gives a shit about your mental disorder so stop telling people who don’t fucking care
@@EllyCatfox and to be real with you, I believe that CSA is a big factor as to why this stuff is so easily eaten up by you folks, it’s vulnerable people being LIED to, you’re in poverty because you never had a chance dude, you’re not ever gonna be a girl, the companies manufacturing these HRT regiments KNOW it’s taking a min of 10 years off of the average humans life span, and they are PROFITING off of your suffering, I just can’t wait for the day when all of y’all realize 10-30 years from now you were VASTLY exploited under the guise of RECLAIMING your IDENTITY nah dude, you have one, it’s the one ingrained in your PERSONALITY that’s your identity, your sexual organs and chromosomes are the only determining factor for IDENTIFYING (see how it’s a different version of the word) sex, sex is NOT idenity, if so all we would be is walking penises and vaginas, and honestly, just from how you all present yourselves, that’s all you want people to see you as, for fucks sake look at the first paragraph of your comment? Who fucking needs to know that or cares?
@@EllyCatfox I don’t start all my conversations with “as a white male with anxiety, PTSD, and a bad left elbow, I think…”
I started to just turn my smartphone off when I do not need it. It's such a strangely freeing sensation
People in the comments are all biased against phones, they think our problems would be sold if nobody used phones. Things dont work like that. Instead of fighting technology, try to make the most of it.
It's because most of them are old people who grew up without it. I highly doubt a college student in the middle of the big city would agree with them.
@togglebutton3312 Yeah, dude... you literally just proved my point. No young adult is going to share that viewpoint because they literally can't function in society without one. Our society is phone centric, and if you aren't already established in it. It's pretty much impossible to get going if you don't have one. Too much stuff requires you to have it, and it provides too big an advantage.
I have a flip phone and the only social media I participate in is TH-cam videos. I love my simplified life. Thank you for this insightful video. I hope everyone can take some time to get outside and walk around on the earth with your precious bare feet. Love & Light ! 🌞🌞🌞
I biked the entire length of Baja California with just a Garmin GPS. For safety reason, the Garmin has texting capability; but I did not use it. The internet is a distraction that I can live without.
I'm a wreck at 34 from growing up with unsupervised access to technology
I remember in the early 1980's; long before there was an internet. We used libraries to find out about things. We met people face to face and figured things out together. The "be-on you phone" culture is making everybody "more intelligent" every day. But, they are really getting to be more and more BRAIN-DEAD.
More angry from knowledge and less social skills is decline.
You're an irrelevant boomer.
Libraries are in many ways ineff. What's nice is that you can have an actual teacher through the internet to teach you thi gs rather than trying to figure it out on your own. It's an improvement. I cam also buy books I can find in a local bookstore thanks to the internet
‘The internet really highlights to us the things that aren’t in our control, that never have been in our control’. This is so profoundly true and why our collective anxiety has increased since the internet.
Welcome back! Sounds like a very nice retreat away from technology, if only for a short time.
What a refreshing watch. Simple needs and simple pleasures.
Mental illness is rising alarmingly, especially among young people, started happening about the time of the rise of the smartphone, coincedence? I'm glad I am not on social media, saw a commentator saying it's like all the village idiots gathered at the local park yelling at eachother.
And then they made it everyone else’s problem
There are studies about human developement and "screen time", but they stopped the study because scientists were afraid that the parents sue them to study screen time of kids and the effects. 😉
I will quote a movie "anything given has no value"
A year without a smartphone - there's no going back, I feel like a kid again!
How did you not use your smartphone like if people needed to call you? What would you do
@@Riliesyoutube I've used an old Nokia!
@@RiliesyoutubeIf they want anything to do with me, they can come at my house and ask for me.
I often wonder how it might have felt before phones and computers and rapid transportation to write letters to loved ones who lived far away or to travel by sea for months on end... The goodbyes felt more finite, I imagine, and if you received a letter back I bet it was a wonderfully intense blend of relief and excitement.
I like to think we can still organize our worlds for slowness, maybe not entirely, but we can practice meditation and mindfulness, we can choose to use flip phones, we can limit the screens we have access to. We can cultivate slowness and presence in our daily lives and appreciate the technologies we use for the tools they provide. The key is establishing boundaries and limiting the types of technology we actively engage with.
Camping for 5 days without a phone isn’t “trying to live without a phone”. 😆
Otherwise, nice video!
believe me, even 5 days is not doable for ALOT of people, including me
What scares me the most is gen alpha technology is getting so advanced it’s basically a drug
So, the title says; the results were terrifying.... I didn't hear any of that in this video.... It is misleading as the video was about being away from smartphone... So was that so terrifying..?
I think the point was that in modern western civilization, the vast majority rely in smartphones and maintaining an online presence and measure their sense of self based on what the internet says about them so this revelation could be construed as "terrifying" because it challenges and undermines everything people understand as "reality"
Phenomenal. Truly amazing work. I’m proud of you. Creation is the all for me.
I have some kind of internet/youtube addiction for sure. But I always use the computer... Phone always inherantly feels too small for that. So I never look at my phone if I go outside. Or while talking to people. Never even felt the urge to do that for some reason. Its just when I decide to go inside.
i may be a bit younger than most here i would assume, but what you describe, i felt a longer time as well. ever since i quit (most) social media, i have felt much better about myself.
i have been thinking about living in a forest cabin for a couple days - maybe one day.
i can only recommend to have some controlled downtime in your day. even if it means to just stare at the ceiling and let your mind wander (maybe with some music in the background)
be safe and take care everyone
thank you for this thoughtful video
Been without a phone for over 3 years. Peaceful.
How
Yeah nobody can contact you lol
Wow, I needed this more than ever. Thank you
Another great podcast keep up the good work ❤
cheers!
I can relate to this. I say I’m not gonna use the phone all day today and then you find me on the phone so yes, this is very very hard to deal with.
Thank you for sharing your experience and perspective. Very helpful
Every year, i take a tech free camping trip. Clears the mind.
This resonates with me as I am currently weaning myself off smartphone. My first trip was with android and using widgets to display my calendar and keep notes, rather than distracting icons with numbers. Then I tried black and white. At this point I have already turned off voicemail.
My current step is in having podcasts via an (old school) mp3 player. I configured software to download podcast episodes about sef improvement and philosophy.
Currently I find no need to use my phone on my daily commute into London.
I'm now looking at getting rid of the bloat on my computer.
I try and enjoy the outdoors.
Cell phones, Keeping a diary for the devil. Think about that for awhile. 😢😢.
Absolutely nailed it Brother. You have a new viewer
I do like that’s we have knowledge at our finger tips though. As much as smartphones might be hindering us there are things that we can do with smart phones tags we weren’t able to do before. I know what you man and I have learned to monitor and schedule how much I use my phone. It’s all about balance and how much screen time you are participating in. You don’t necessarily have to cut yourself off from the world you can in moderations use this technology. Don’t let it control you be the controller of your technology.
Such an important message. Thank you!
If you go on a date with a girl and she is staring at her phone, leave.
“Here we are on the internet after all” while being outside somewhere is very terrifying.
No phones no boats no motor cars. Not a single luxury.
Sounds like hell you'll be stuck in a place if you have no transport
@@AmazingStoryDewd Like Robinson Crusoe, as primitive as can be.
smart watch is the way to go. Been off my phone for 4 weeks now, feel like my life is coming back. apple watch ultra 2 with cellular works as a phone minus the addicting, distracting, toxic things
I have an Apple watch ⌚️ also