Screen Saver - Dumbphone life is about

There are still nice things on the internet. Dumbphone life, as r/Dumbphones moderator Jose Briones told me, is about "recovering your time and attention for the things you actually value." Of course, getting sucked into a subreddit because it was algorithmically suggested to me based on my extensive online browsing-is the antithesis of that. But it's how I found r/Dumbphones, now my favorite place on the internet.

- By Aaron Gordon- Illustration by Rosie Struve

Dumbphone life, as r/Dumbphones moderator Jose Briones told me, is about recovering your time and attention for the things you actually value. Of course, getting sucked into a subreddit because it was algorithmically suggested to me based on my extensive online browsing-is the antithesis of that. But it's how I found r/Dumbphones, now my favorite place on the internet.

The phone you had in 2009 is a decent approximation. Briones got into them in late 2019. At the time, he was logging 12, 13 hours of screen time a day One night, at around 1 am, he was watching Netflix on his phone and thought, Enough.