Could you switch off your smartphone during several days and not have the feeling you're missing out on a lot of stuff?

[Tarifa]

Be honest.

I could only do that during a holiday, as I need my smartphone for professional reasons.

What about you?

[SueShe]

I do that all the time. My phone is mostly switched off for the greatest part of the day and the entire night as well.

I don't own a smartphone but a cell phone that I solely use to call my family. It is a 20 year old 3rd. Hand phone where you have to type each letter a number of times to get to the right letter.

No color screen, only basic email and nothing fancy.

I don't have the feeling that I am missing out on anything but glad that I have a way to contact my family when I need to.

[VIVANT]

I don’t think that would be a good idea bc im in a LTR and turning off the phone cuts off 💯 communication.

in other ways, i could, but I don’t want to.

news, music, history discovery, translation, research, reading. Emergency contact, grocery shopping, classes, long distance friends, I don’t see the venue in going without my phone. I am living in a ridiculously isolated area.. when I move back to a busy city, I will likely use it less but certainly not cut it off.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

But you can still communicate with your partner using a computer? Though honestly I'm not sure if the question is about smartphones or internet access itself

[Tarifa]

@Maybe_Maybe_not The use of smartphones implies internet access. The question is about dependability on a device we could stop using for a few hours or even days.

[Chazmatazz269]

Yes, at almost any time. I fairly regularly leave the house and leave my phone behind. The most challenging part is not knowing the time when i’m outside of my vehicle.

[Tarifa]

I normally switch it off altogether during the weekends. When we're out somewhere, I am with the people I care about: my wife and daughter. No need for a phone there.

When I go somewhere alone, I'll take it but only use it when needed.

[Tarifa]

You can always wear a wrist watch, analogue or digital. It's easier than activating your smartphone screen anyway.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Do you mean cut off from smartphone only, or cut off from any devices going online, tablet, laptops etc?

[sage2021]

I could because almost everything that comes on my phone I swipe it off my phone anyway.

[Miristheiss]

I would lose my DUOLINGO streak for Spanish!!!

[WonderingManII]

I can turn my phone off for days, and it makes no difference for me.

[thegreenyogi]

Yes. I did it for a whole summer.

[Tarifa]

That's a long time.

[thegreenyogi]

It is. But I survived and I was much happier for it.

[jamesgoldman]

Sure I don't even take it on holiday

[EmmiL]

No I couldn't