{"id":7548,"date":"2015-12-09T17:54:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T00:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannarisse.com\/blog\/?p=7548"},"modified":"2017-04-07T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T00:05:49","slug":"flip-phone-report%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aday-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/flip-phone-report%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aday-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Flip-Phone Report?\u2014?Day Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ff1f\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--h3\">Today is the second full day without my smartphone. I felt lighter yesterday. I\u2019ve been carrying around a tiny notebook in one pocket and my flip phone in another. I make copious lists and I felt like I would panic if I removed my ability to do this. One list I made was the things I couldn\u2019t do without my smart phone.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"postList\">\n<li id=\"e0f0\" class=\"graf--li graf-after--p\">Check the weather<br \/>\nThis proved to be unimportant because the world kept giving me weather updates all day. And today\u2019s forecast was wrong anyway.<\/li>\n<li id=\"2d73\" class=\"graf--li graf-after--li\">I have to buy train tickets through the kiosk instead of through the iphone app. This is a major issue for me. I might have to start walking to work.<\/li>\n<li id=\"0a9b\" class=\"graf--li graf-after--li\">I can\u2019t use google maps to get me places.<br \/>\nWhen I was a teenager, I prided myself on being able to navigate most of the Silicon Valley through memory and intuition. My dad was a Realtor and we had these fantastic map books when I was a kid. I loved to study and memorize them. When I learned to drive, this came in very handy and I could pretty much find my way to any destination by the street name and address number alone. Today I went to see a friend\u2019s art at a cafe I\u2019d only been to once. I had a small panic attack when I realized I had no way of looking up the address. But I just used my memory and intuition and found my way no problem. I just had to zig zag a little.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"4f57\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--li\">Other things I noticed\u2026 At dinner, I went to the bathroom with my daughter. When we came back, my husband guiltily put away his phone. This is quite different behavior than the other day\u2026 I was in the middle of a story and he pulled out his phone and started scrolling through Facebook as I was talking. I\u2019d like this to never happen again. Don\u2019t do this to the ones you love!<\/p>\n<p id=\"3b74\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">I went to my local bar last night. The two guys I was sitting with kept pulling out their smart phones. One would do it and it would prompt the other one to follow suit. I felt the same bodily urge, similar to when someone yawns and you can\u2019t help but yawn too. But I realized my phone had nothing to offer me other than the date and time, which I already knew, so I kept it in my pocket.<\/p>\n<p id=\"416d\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">I felt the urge to document my daughter being cute, but had to means of doing this so I just enjoyed her being cute instead. Smart phones make it so easy to document your memories as they happen. Watching the world through a phone feels numb. Watching your kid spin around and dance, without pulling out your phone, feels joyous. It\u2019s a moment just for me and her.<\/p>\n<p id=\"0fcd\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">When I got home yesterday and checked social media, I really hadn\u2019t missed much. A check in once or twice a day might be more than sufficient to keep me feeling \u201cdialed in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"1cb9\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p graf--last\">I realize how many emotion-based things I rely on my phone for. I feel fat right now and I wanted to get my phone to help me with this. What an absurd idea that is. I want to feel more connected to my friends, but I\u2019m left yearning on facebook. I saw friends last night and two minutes with them was worth more than a hundred facebook posts. I fear that without photos or videos, I won\u2019t have memories. Nope, not true\u2026 also, how many photos does a person need to take in a year? I take thousands. Maybe it\u2019s too much, yes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the second full day without my smartphone. I felt lighter yesterday. I\u2019ve been carrying around a tiny notebook in one pocket and my flip phone in another. 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