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🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Brian Lair on WNYC. |
0:12.5 | We're going to end today for our last few minutes with a call in on something that we've noticed |
0:18.5 | is going on more than it used to. |
0:20.7 | It's for anyone who has ditched |
0:22.2 | your smartphone for a flip phone. Anybody like that listening right now? 212-433, W-N-Y-C. Why'd you do it? |
0:31.6 | And how's that going for you if you have ditched your smartphone for a flip-phone?2, 433-9692, or we can extend it if we don't have any actual new flip phone users, |
0:47.2 | to if you also use one of those apps to limit your social media use, you know, |
0:53.0 | or one of those apps that you find that can kind of |
0:57.0 | stop you after a certain time technologically or you have to bypass it. Give us a call if you're |
1:02.7 | doing either of those things. Who has ditched your smartphone for a flip phone or who's using |
1:07.8 | an app that limits your social media use? |
1:11.1 | 212-433 WNYC, 433-9-6-92. |
1:18.1 | We know that overuse of cell phones is a big issue for young people. |
1:22.5 | The Pew Research Center estimates that 35% of American teenagers |
1:27.0 | are using social media quote almost constantly. |
1:30.7 | But what about you? |
1:31.8 | Even if you're not a teenager, do you feel like you're addicted to your phone or do you |
1:35.4 | wish you used it less? |
1:36.6 | Have you tried to change your habits? |
1:39.3 | And we're asking, have you even ditched your smartphone or downloaded one of those apps that helps |
1:48.1 | you use your phone less? |
1:50.0 | Who has a story? |
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