Stories From Main Street: Teenage Girl Ditches Smartphone For

>>56218950
Or you could, you know, just not use snapchat, facebook, and everything else.

The apps are the problem, not smartphones you dumb teenagers.

>>56218976
>expecting a woman to realize this

who gives a shit

>>56218950
She looks dorky. I bet she fingers her pussy furiously to sleep every day :'( I wish I could become invisible to watch it

>>56219026
>She

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>>56218976
No.

>>56218950
screenshotted, printed it out and hung it up the
wall
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>>56218950
This is great. Now we can copy/paste this article to all those:
>It says here that you do not have any social media accounts. Care to explain that?
threads.

It is just not cool to have social media accounts any more, mom! Like, it is the current year right now, for crying out loud! Only grandparents use social media any more!

>>56219069
This board is 18+.

>>56218950
Ironically I only keep a smarthphone because of emails and Voice Calls+Regular calls.

More ironically so I broken the screen 3 times.

More ironic so far is that I never answer calls that aren't pre programed by the people calling unless I know the actual person and I know it's only a emergency or something good..


I hate phones, actually I hate computers in general you could say I hate Social Technology.


But fuck me do I love a good soldering a desoldering circuit boards and making wacky ass shit that makes my life easier.

I wonder if she played Pokémon Go?

>>56219117
And?

>>56219117
>you have a social life
>you must be under 18
stop projecting, you pathetic loser

>>56219139
roid!

>>56219116
This is way off, this girl doesn't have social media because she can't control herself and she is a retarded kid who hasn't faced any real problems in her life.
>Wah wah I'm sooo stressed by my fone, someone please write an article about me

The reason I don't like social media is because everyone is so fucking boring. That's the only reason why.

>>56219151
Steroids are bad mkay

>>56218950
Wise kid. I grant to smartphone users they're incredibly devices, but absent the necessity of their tools life is far better without the angst of having the internet in your pocket.

t. 1.5 years post-smartphone and very happy

>>56218950
The only fuckers that frequently send me messages on anything are either coworkers or family, and they only send text messages and emails. I need a smartphone for navigation, emails on the go, looking shit up, and lots of other random shit.

>>56218950
Dumb Phone + Linux Lappy Master Race. :^)

Why is a new station running this story?

I wonder how much megapixels her flipphone has

>>56219171
>The reason I don't like social media is because everyone is so boring.
WHAT?!!?!? You do NOT like people taking pictures of:
-selfies
-breakfast
-selfies
-traffic
-selfies
-lunch
-coffee
-selfies
-more traffic
-selfies
-dinner
-selfies
-cats
?

You must be a nerd creep loser jerk geek sociopath!

>>56218976
Nice to see the consumerists of /g/ still enjoying the shackles of a smartphone.

>>56219195
Modern "feature phones," (dumb phone in marketing speak) have nav and email capability. "Random shit," people do on smartphones is usually the equivalent of scratching your asshole in public. Might feel nice, but you don't need to do it and it's probably a bad habit.

>>56219116
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngt1JK3DyOU

>>56219222
Trips of truth.

>>56219248
just the first 20 seconds of that video made me get into an aggressive mood

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>Hate friends and community
>Social interaction a constant source of stress and misery
>Blame technology

But I have self-restraint and I only have a smartphone so I can masturbate outdoors.

>>56219244
>Modern "feature phones," (dumb phone in marketing speak) have nav and email capability.

Aren't the nav services included in dumbphones fairly shitty compared to Google Maps though?

who cares

Does Samsung still make that Galaxy flip phone?

>>56219143
Adults just call eachother m8

>>56219244
I'm pretty sure you can even still shitpost on a dumbphone because they all come with a basic web browser.

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>>56219214
Holy shit falcon your site is more bloated then ever

It looks like my myspace page from 2005

>>56219244
"random shit" in my case includes tracking mileage so I get paid for it, testing wireless signal strength, looking up addresses and contact information, etc., and no, 1X and a feature phone browser are not good enough, and neither is the shitty little 1.5" display good enough for navigation.

>>56218976
>The apps are the problem, not smartphones you dumb teenagers.
>>56219171
>The reason I don't like social media is because everyone is so fucking boring.

This desu senpai.

I love my smart phone, most useful device ever (phone, email, gps, camera, news, web browser, gaymes, etc.)

But I don't use fucking social media because it's useless crap.

>>56218950
how sad

>>56219308
it's easier to text if you're talking to multiple people or just want to have a casual conversation

my parents text eachother
>tfw you're less hip than my fucking parents

>>56219324
Yeah, I am actually hiring a web developer so I can debloat.

>add features
>add more features
>ADD MOAR AND EVEN MOAR FEATURES
It got out of hand.

>>56219069
>'Social' folder
>4chan browser

>>56219349
Texts are fine too, don't be silly.

It's all the pointless social apps like snapchat that aren't

>>56219063
Looks like a transgendered dude. You guys think an actual girl would give up her smartphone?

>>56218950
>I'm so unique and special and different!!!!!

I bet she goes to starbucks

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>>56218950
fucking swine

>>56219376
>like snapchat that aren't
snapchat is fun for sending nudes to significant other

>Be me
>Have smartphone
>Don't check it every 5 minutes

Sometimes it's good to be able to access the internet for whatever reason when you're away from a computer. Plus, I need the GPS for work.

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>>56219413
>sending nudes
If you send nudes and you're an adult, you're really just a teenager in an aged body.

>>56219069
>no Alien Blue
kys loser

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>>56219354
You should.

>XHTML validated
>No styling
>No scripts
>No plugins
>No third-party code
>No social media integration
>Just tables and hyperlinks

Make Stallman proud.

>>56219289
>social media equals friends and community plus real social interaction
Get the fuck out autismbot.

>Litvin

Possible Jew.

>>56219363
4chan is a social site

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>>56219876
>4chan is a social site

>>56218950
>smartphone culture and social media makes you bad!
>but I'm still going to be a fucking attention whore over pointless bullshit

Is this article the most ironic one ever?

>>56220550
Getting sick and tired of this bullshit about how social media is bad. Good luck getting pussy for the small pot of people in here that have talked to a woman before. I know they'll reject you because I would if I was a woman.

I only use my phone for:
>email
>web browsing
>ebay auction sniping
>text/call
and occasionally as a camera

>>56219129
You have no idea what ironic means, you imbecile.

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>>56218976
Stupid cunt doesn't know you can disable notifications. Stupid cunt doesn't know flip phones can text. Stupid cunt is going to get lost in Niggerville and gangraped because flip phones cant into nav.

>>56220680
I think she was probably well aware of all of that

>>56219206
To bury Hillary's latest controversy.

>>56220717
Which one was that? Leading every poll by a mile?

>>56218950

Eh if I start talking to too many people on LINE and wechat it gets exhausting.

But then you just stop responding to the shit that is not important and you'll only be talking to one or two people.

No need to give up the convenience of having a camera and music player etc in the one device.

Dunno, I think it's super convenient when you can find a date for the evening literally during the day using only tinder and whatsapp. I used to hate social media but now it's my favorite smartphone feature.

I still don't have an actual facebook though, only a dummy account for event tracking. And I'm, like, completely out of the loop when it comes to snapchat, instagram, periscope etc.

im on a windows phone so its basically the same thing.
i kinda want a flip phone but i need muh gps

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>>56220767
She can't even get up the stairs much less a poll.

>>56218950
Next she should ditch her phone completely to break free from the botnet.

>>56221995
Like you did with your PC posting on /g/ right?

>>56222016
>Like you did with your PC posting on /g/ right?
???

because if i had a flip phone in this day and age everyone would think there's something wrong with me

not that there isn't, but you feel me

yo just wanted to let you guys no that I DO NOT use my smart phones for these things, LOOK AT ME

>>56222031
>Like you did with your PC posting on /g/ right?
>???
???????

Finally a female mentally deranged enough in the right direction for Stallman to finally settle own and have children with.

>>56218950
I use my smartphone for

>Phone calls to my mom
>Text messages to my gf
>Listening to some music
>Dumb shit like looking up whether my train will be late, whether it's warm outside, alarm clock etc
>Occasionally make a photo of stuff I need to remember
>Occasionally looking shit up on the internet

That's it really.

>>56219304
They do
But they're being fags by not releasing it to Western countries

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>>56219324
>He had a myspace page

>>56218950
Because I have self discipline. Or even better, I'm just not interested.

When really bored, in line at the post office, etc, I can use the smartphone for internet or /g/, but otherwise forget about the "smart" part.

>>56223577
>he didn't

You're either younger than 20 or older than 30.

>>56218950
>Having friends
There's your problem

>>56218950
>Why aren't you doing this, /g/?
I am. I've never had a "smart" tracking device, and I leave my dumb one at home when going out 50% of the time.

>>56218950
>doesn't know how to stop notifications popping up
>doesn't know how to uninstall the apps she installed herself
>ditches entire phone
>goes to the news about it
>makes 2deep4me statements about how social media are actually anti-social media
>thinks she's some kind of spiritual guru now
>doesn't even know old phones send all communication encrypted with a weak ass algorithm and it's easy as shit to snoop

Yep, she's retarded.

>>56221259
Same

>>56219026
I don't think you could be more of a fucking autist of you tried

>>56219214
>You must be a nerd creep loser jerk geek sociopath!
Or just have really boring friends

>>56218950
I'd flip her phone over and connect to her social media account if you know what I mean.

>>56223874
If you try play the normie game you will find you cant just ignore it because people will get mad you are ignoring them.

>>56223988
Not if you're a girl

how powerful are the modern dumbphones anyways, I might as well switch once I port that one app for my train departure schedules

>>56223988
I ignore people all the time and they still like me. I even tell them im ignoring them....

>>56218950
OY FUCKING VEY! IT'S ANODDA SHOAH! STOP BEING ANTI-SEMITIC AND USE YOUR 20 PLUS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS YOU STUPID GOY! STOP TRYING TO ESCAPE THE PRISON WE DESIGNED FOR DA GOYIM! JUST BE SURE TO NOT USE THEM AT GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLES PLACES OF WORSHIP LIKE THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM.

But no seriously I commend her on her attempts to escape the social botnet. Maybe if enough teenage girls drop these shit products of the Internet, we can move on to more worthwhile ventures.

>>56219248
>This game is boring
>Why did I ever agree to go to one baseball game to understand the Chad I want to fuck?
>I'll go but use social media the entire time to get the attention of the 30 Chads my sorosititute sisters and I are going to gangbang once we get home
>why hasn't daddy given me the Lexus released in the [current year]?
>He doesn't love me better have sex with Tyrone I'll regret later on
>Ha lol look at this beta boy trying to get my attention. And he thinks he'll get anything! Maybe when I turn 40 with 3
kids and only if he makes 250k+.

>>56219329
>browses 4chan
>expects people to believe he has a job
perhaps you'd be happier on reddit

A smartphone is an NSA tracking device.
A flip phone is also an NSA tracking device.

There's nothing different.

>>56218950
I literally never owned a smartphone.
But nobody cares about that since I don't have tits.

>>56219473
MAKE IT TRUE

>>56219699
just a Pole

>>56219329
I was about to say a lot of peoples jobs require a smartphone now; I literally can't clock in and out without mine.

I don't know why everyone has smartphones anyways. They're for thinkers with professional jobs that need a mobile computer. The average idiot doesn't have any real use for one.

>>56224079
/pol/ get off our fucking board
It's bad enough you cancerous fucks spread the poo meme

>>56218950
She looks like a trap

>>56224501
POO

IN

THE

LOO

>>56224325
not an argument but you sound like an NSA tracking device yourself, anon.

>>56224501
Not an argument

>>56219214
You need better friends falco.

>>56219214
i literally don't get any of this on my instagram or other social stuff. the problem is your friends suck and are retards just like you are.

>>56224593
That's just it anon, everything is an NSA tracking device.

>>56218950
>having a smartphone FORCES me to look and respond immediatly
Everytime someone reaches out for me like "why weren't you available yesterday", i tell them i wanted my time off. It's my choice to be not reachable, if i don't feel like it.
That's something that's a mere missconception by most people today.

>>56225247
The point of this article isn't about government surveillance, it's about addiction.

>>56219222
trips don't lie.
No FB, no social media affiliation and BB Q10 forever.

>>56219214
Get better friends.

All mine post on FB are ironic memes about how they are depressed and hate life.

Its actually pretty great.

>>56218976
Pretty much this. Hell, I don't even have a data plan, I only get access to the internet from my home network.

>>56219248
>Paying good money to go to a game you're not going to watch just to take pics of yourself there

Kek stupid hoes

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>>56219248
Can't handle it.

>>56218950

It's a RAZR. They just fell for the hype.

>>56219876
>4chan is a social site
whatever you say you fucking faggot

>>56219876
more like anti-social site

>>56225881
Maybe, but people are still being anti-social in a GROUP.

>>56223825
I'm 26 and i didn't have one.

>>56225910
what group I don't see any group.
Look I've been here for more than 10 years and I haven't made a single friend nor remembered anyone of you nobodies. and I guess the same is for anyone here.
[spoiler]actually I added someone here on /g/ on steam, but we don't talk too much[/spoiler]

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>>56218950
BEEN USING A FLIP PHONE FOR YEARS

A GIRL DOES IT AND ITS FRONT PAGE HEADLINES

>>56225910
>>56225988
I fucked up my spoiler line.
My point is socializing isn't only about talking, banter, e-penis contest and shitposting anonymously. In order to socialize we need something to identify ourselves as persons (names, faces) else we're just like machines sending packets through standard TCP/IP.

> Why aren't you doing this, /g/?

I always did anon.

Smartphones are great tools. Nobody is forcing you to use all the social media bullshit that you can install.

>>56218950
>I'm 16 year old who decided not to manage my life but get an easy way out
>PLEASE MAKE A NEWS STORY ABOUT ME

Why is it that news loves to listen to loosers?

>>56226548
The only loose thing here is your mom.

Social media is cancer.

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>>56218950
>mfw I have the iPhone 6+ and use it almost exclusively for podcasts, audio books, music and YouTube
>mfw I'm not entirely sure what Snapchat or Instagram even is

>>56226548
it reinforces the boomers' idea that millenials are destroying the world with their fancy technology

>>56224501
That was /int/ shut the fuck up pajeet

: How is social media real? Like nigga don't download the app, haha. Like just put the phone on silent, haha.

>>56219248
Fat ass in the front left is the only normal one.

>>56224495
>GPS
>music
>Calls
>Texting and all instant messaging and videochat services
>email
no average person uses or sees the appeal of any of these

>>56226892
Yeah, I don't get why people correlate smart phones with social media. You can have an iPhone and not use every social media service under the sun, you know.

Are there any good horizontal slide phones that I might try? I have a Moto E but I can't stand touch screens and literally the only app I use is a GPS one (and I have a dedicated GPS in my car anyway). If slide phones aren't made anymore are there flip phones with good keypads?

Regardless I'm done with this smartphone meem.

>>56226892
Instagram and Snapchat are the only ones I use
I deleted my facebook almost a year ago; I made my twitter private and i haven't used it in months d.esu

I'm an adult, I can put my phone in airplane mode or simply ignore notifications

>>56227369
Blacc Berry has a good keyboard

Get a bold if you don't want any "smartphone" features

>>56218976
This.

Another simple solution is to not have any data. I canceled my phone data because most of the time I was just shitposting on 4chan while I'm out and about. That's no way to live.

>>56227444
Literally every phone OS has a "do not disturb" mode that silences notifications; you can set it to block calls too or only allow them from certain contacts unless the person calls twice in 5 minutes

>>56219429
>I can't remember the path i take to work

>>56227414
Thanks, but I prefer phones that slide across their longest dimension since it's more akin to the keyboard I'm typing on now.

>>56226051
>machines sending packets through standard TCP/IP
machines socializing

>>56219248
>America

>>56219354
need some free help?

>>56219129
>I never answer calls that aren't pre programed by the people calling unless I know the actual person
dis

if i see just numbers when i get a call i let it go to voice mail. If it's important enough they'll leave a message. That or let it ring it self out and then check texts to see if its just someone i haven't gotten around to updating their name.

To many people I know answer their phone at every call only to have the over person on the line hang up. Which makes my fedora turn into a tinfoil hat.

>>56218950
>girl

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>“If you’re a teenage girl, having an iPhone can be very stressful. You’ll turn away from your phone and you’ll come back five minutes later and you’ll have 200 messages and 10 Snapchats, and like 15 notifications on Facebook. And just– it’s a lot. I just thought it was too much,” she said.

so this is what it means to be a normie?
having hundreds of meaningless, pointless, mundane social interactions every day while your brain is melting from the lack of legitimate thinking?

>>56219179
I will be you one day.

>five minutes later and you’ll have 200 messages and 10 Snapchats
>normies get 56,700 messages and 2,880 Snapchats a day
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>56229723
did she die

>>56229723
thank mrs. skeltal

>>56231007
she looks already dead desu

>>56231007
no but she made some youtube bucks to buy more make-up and hair fixer

>>56230987
kek that's nothing I receive billions of packets daily

>someone buys a new phone
>front page news
good job media make sure to keep the blackout on the Ukraine situation tho

This triggered me very hard.

So is this a tranny or what

>>56219473
This. The infopic was a better website than the current website, nevermind even the fact that it LITERALLY USES GOOGLE TRACKING.

http://ru.findeen.com/sony_ericsson_клyб.html

>CBS ran piece on this yesterday
>NBC ran a piece on this 7 months ago
>Her original instagram post showcasing her new (old) phone dates back over a year ago

What is going on here

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I love my dummy phone man, I really want to use it again but my smartphone is just so fucking good

>>56229723
pretty much

>>56231373
>being friends with women

Why are women considered human beings?

>>56236514
Because men allow it

>>56218950
I've left facebook unchecked for a week and still had only like 4 notifications.

I think Facebook and social media in general made many of us in to little arrogant narcissistic assholes. I may just be a little older but I can't maintain a conversation with someone while they're using their phone to talk to someone else. It's like they don't really care about our conversation.

I'd much prefer visiting someone in person than talking to them online.

>>56238587
no friends, huh?

>>56218950
>this is news worthy
If i kill myself right now nobody would give a shit,but a girl giving up on an iPhone OH MY GOD THE WORLD IS GOING TO END

>>56227489
Yes, but curiosity is a human thing. You may enable that mode, but you'll also find yourself turning it off sometimes.

>>56226051
4chan is pretty good if you use it right. theres a ton of neets who will use it to feed there loser habits.

>>56218950
>Why aren't you doing this, /g/?
Because unlike her I am perfectly mentally capable of having a smartphone without checking it every 10 seconds. I can both pay attention to things and enjoy the benefits of a smartphone when they are relevant to me.

If my friends all wanted to text instead of talking, I'd tell them to fuck off or get new, better friends. Thankfully my friends are also capable of such higher-level interactions and putting their smartphones away.

>not replying immediately to people

If you don't you are a selfish rude cunt who doesn't give a shit for others.

>>56239220
People might be busy, but somewhat I agree if you are online.

>>56219453
But anon that's every adult, nudes or no nudes.

>>56218976
>N- no!! Keep buying those smartphones, silly goy!
>Just, uhh... Just stop using all the smartphone features! Yeah... (((rubbety rub rub)))

>>56219399
Kill her Elliot!

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>>56218976
First post was best post. Old hardware was better anyway

>>56218950
This cringy shit is giving me cancer, teens grow in a fucking cancerous technology environment, "smart" phones should be fucking banned so they can grow up not to be illiterate faggots

>>56240496
tell me more, grandpa

>>56240508
I'm 20 and i'm way too smart to get an iphone or any consumerist piece of shit
Talk about me being edgy or whatever, I really don't care

>>56218950
What phone is that?

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>>56240533

>>56218950
> why aren't you doing that /g/

I have a smartphone mainly for podcast client, camera and messaging app.

It's not going ding every thirty seconds I treat it like a public computer and its nice to have a browser in your pocket sometimes.

I'd wager that girl's problems will continue because that's the side effect of having a vagina and being young tends to aggravate the situation. Changing to a flip phone will always be temporary for any woman, the social pressure and being viewed as that weird girl without a phone what's the matter with her, she'll go back to a smartphone in less than a year.

>>56240533
>20
>way 2 smart

>>56218950
I just got rid of all social media. It's cancer and I'm much happier without it. I don't touch the shit boards here like /b/ anymore. My phone is basically just for music, porn, and calling/texting when needed. I occasionally check email and use the timer and calculator. It's a mini PC in my pocket. Feels good man.

>>56240640
>she'll go back to a smartphone in less than a year.
She probably never quit the smartphone, she just used a dumbphone as a way to get more attention, and it worked since they made a fucking news article about it.

>>56223825
i'm 26 and have never visited myspace (nor facebook)

>>56227382
could you repeat that in english?

>>56226892
same here, i'd look them up but i know enough to know i wouldn't use them

>>56229723
That girl needs to eat a fucking cheeseburger, christ.

>>56219473

>XHTML