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Not without my phone

I am glued to my phone. Or I used to be at least. With the technology now-a-days I felt that I had every reason to have my phone in my hand constantly because I could always be contacted, as if I had enough friends to actually be contacted constantly. According to research by Pew Research 67% of smartphone owners in America check their phone even though they haven't heard it or felt it vibrate. This behavior led to an addiction, at least for me. I became so obsessed with my phone that I would check if people had been online and seen my messages and if they had I wondered why they hadn't answered me. In short, I expected people to be as glued to their phones as I was and I expected them to constantly wanting to talk to me the second I wanted to talk to them. So I made a decision, I turned of the internet on my phone. Not just the mobile data, no all of it. I turned my smartphone (that in my opinion only makes us dumber) into an old fashioned phone where the only functions I ca...