This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Unlike nearly 98 percent of Americans under the age of 50, I don’t have a smartphone. Actually, I’ve never had a smartphone. I’ve never called an Uber, never “dropped a pin,” never used Venmo or Spotify or a dating app, never been in a group chat, never been jealous of someone on Instagram (because I’ve never been on Instagram). I used to feel ashamed of this, or rather, I was made to feel ashamed. For a long time, people either didn’t believe me when I told them that I didn’t have a smartphone, or reacted with a sort of embarrassed disdain, like they’d just realized I was the source of an unpleasant odor they’d been ignoring. But over the past two years, the reaction has changed. As the costs of being always online have… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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