High School Spends Thousands of Dollars in Grant Money on Locking Up Student’s Cell Phones For The Entire School Day

I went to high school in the age of smartphones. When I entered the 9th grade, I entered with a purple slide phone in my backpack. After the first three weeks of school, it became abundantly clear that I needed to get an iPhone as soon as possible; not because of the social stigma of …
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High School Spends Thousands of Dollars of Grant Money on Locking Up Student’s Cell Phones For The Entire School Day

I went to high school in the age of smartphones. When I entered the 9th grade, I entered with a purple slide phone in my backpack. After the first three weeks of school, it became abundantly clear that I needed to get an iPhone as soon as possible; not because of the social stigma of …
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Valuable Thread Explains the Necessity of Digital Decluttering

Are you a digital hoarder? Most of us contemporary technology users are guilty of saving crap onto our phones and then promptly forgetting about it, but the extent of the problem is worse with some people than others. I grimace to think of all the stupid memes, screenshots, and random pictures that are stored on …
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‘Leave your phone here and go be present’: Ad for Fancy Phone Prison Gets Mocked by Twitter

If you’re the owner of any kind of mobile device, the likelihood is that you’re unhealthily attached to it. I make a point of not depressing myself by checking my screen time, but let’s just say I get genuinely upset when I put my phone down somewhere and forget where it is.  Ultimately, there are …
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Nostalgic Thread Looks Back on Wacky Vintage Mobile Phone Designs

The 2000s were a deeply strange time. We were in the golden era of reality TV, and wearing a dress over bootcut jeans. Thoughts of economic and environmental strife were a lifetime away. Most importantly of all, we didn’t really have smartphones yet. Plenty of those who now wield the latest iPhone or Android look …
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Funny Thread Looks Back on Wacky Vintage Mobile Phone Designs

The 2000s were a deeply strange time. We were in the golden era of reality TV, and wearing a dress over bootcut jeans. Thoughts of economic and environmental strife were a lifetime away. Most importantly of all, we didn’t really have smartphones yet. Plenty of those who now wield the latest iPhone or Android look …
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Nostalgic Twitter Users Look Back At How People Entertained Themselves Before Texting

It’s amazing how far communication technology has come in our lifetimes. It seems like one day, you’re waiting for your crush to come on AIM in the family computer room and the next, you’re being tormented by the WhatsApp refresh notification as you wait for a text back.  It’s fair to say that many of …
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