Luddite teens dont want your likes

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Back in , when I was on tour for my book, Digital Minimalism , I chatted with more than a few parents. I was surprised by how many told me a similar story: their teenage children had become fed up with the shallowness of online life and decided, all on their own, to deactivate their social media accounts, and in some cases, abandon their smartphones altogether. Ever since then, when an interviewer asks me about youth and technology addiction, I tend to adopt an optimistic tone. According to a recent New York Times article that many of my readers sent me, we might finally be seeing evidence that this shift is beginning to pick up speed. The article opens on a meeting of the Luddite Club being held on a dirt mound in a tucked-away corner of Prospect Park.

Luddite teens dont want your likes

On a brisk recent Sunday, a band of teenagers met on the steps of Central Library on Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn to start the weekly meeting of the Luddite Club, a high school group that promotes a lifestyle of self-liberation from social media and technology. As the dozen teens headed into Prospect Park, they hid away their iPhones - or, in the case of the most devout members, their flip phones, which some had decorated with stickers and nail polish. They marched up a hill toward their usual spot, a dirt mound located far from the park's crowds. We don't keep in touch with each other, so you have to show up. After the club members gathered logs to form a circle, they sat and withdrew into a bubble of serenity. Some drew in sketchbooks. Others painted with a watercolor kit. One of them closed their eyes to listen to the wind. The club members cite libertine writers like Hunter S. Thompson and Jack Kerouac as heroes, and they have a fondness for works condemning technology, like "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut. Arthur, the bespectacled PBS aardvark, is their mascot. And that guy was experiencing life. Real life. Social media and phones are not real life.

This is the sorta stuff that gets referenced later by movies or books or just our general understanding of history with what was important in different eras and with different cohorts. Oct 25, 6,

SL-NYT, but to reader view - think it should work for everybody. My experience has been that NYT successfully paywalls reader view, too. Gift link. Also, these sound like a lovely group of kids. I haven't read the article, but this shouldn't be any great surprise, surely? There's always going to be a group of teens who want to define themselves by rejecting whatever the majority of their peers are into.

Welcome to a new week, readers. When was the last time you used a flip phone? For a lot of us, it's probably been years, maybe even more than a decade. But for the teenage members of the Luddite Club, flip phones have become the norm. They're giving up social media and relying on face-to-face conversations in an effort to free themselves from the attention-hogging tyranny of smartphones. Personally, I'm not ready to give up my iPhone just yet, but I think they're onto something. We're exploring that and more — including a new phenomenon called the "toggling tax" — below. Let's dive in. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Download Insider's app here.

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In my neighbourhood almost all restaurants abandoned physical menus due to the pandemic. When they rolled out yet another security thing, my phone at the time had a bad jack and I knew I was going to have to get it repaired at some point. Where is it felt in your body? Everyone is making jokes, but it's pretty cool to see younger people take a moment to disconnect from technology and social media. This is delightful. I think I was happier then. Felt the effects for a while but it took me reading Digital Minimalism for a philosophy class to get me to take the final steps! I thought it was a sweet article. Used to be you'd get a paper ticket and could take that out of your wallet and gain access. I don't think it's necessarily fair for, say, Ticketmaster to require you to own a device costing hundreds of dollars to buy and even more to keep activated to see a concert.

This story originally appeared on Dec. Logan Lane was 11 when she got her first smartphone. Like many kids, she started using Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok.

But I guess I also like [being offline], because I get to feel a little superior to them. Origins are not really in rejecting technology but in rejecting workplace abuse and exploitation, though it was framed as being anti-technology. DiipuSurotu said:. Top Bottom. I don't know if I would have joined, but they are the kinds of kids I would have been friends with at that age. I imagine a growing number of children's toys are as well. All the two-factor security things my work IT keeps rolling out assume you will have a cellphone. It's not entirely universal, but I see the process starting. You are using an out of date browser. What does it feel like? Like if Mackinac Island took their historic status so seriously that overnight guests would have to arrive in costume. I knew this was a NYTimes article before I even entered the thread lol They just find one or two people doing something and then they write an entire article making it sound like it's a trend lol.