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Me, being bad at both posing for photos and not talking on the phone at graduation.
To paraphrase Robert Palmer, I might as well face it. I'm addicted to my phone.
I tried to give up using my phone for a week and it really didn't work out.
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I wasn't always this way. I had a sweet "Star Trek" flip phone throughout high school. It was wonderfully dysfunctional. You couldn't use it to access the internet. It couldn't really receive photos. When I joined the student newspaper, I would record interviews in Garageband on my laptop. Heaven help the person who tried to add me into a group chat.
Once I got an iPhone toward the end of my freshman year of college, I never looked back.
Still I thought it might be interesting to see if I would be able to give up my phone for a week, now that I've become so dependent on it. I figured that laying off the technology for a while might make me less distraction-prone.
To clarify: I was able to make work and emergency calls. But I had to put all other phone functions on the back burner.
I thought it would be easy. Before this, I didn't really consider myself to be someone that's glued to her phone. However, due to circumstances, my technological dependence, and my bad memory, I turned out to be a less than ideal subject for the experiment.
Here's a breakdown of my phone-less (sort of) week:
