• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 days ago

    Continuing to exclusively look at their impact from a “well how many things do I do with them” angle is so pathetically narrow it’s no shock you feel they mean little

    Smartphones made HUGE changes to our world: Facebook wouldn’t have been what it was had it not lined up with the phone boom, tinder and similar dating apps, YouTube, in fact most social media as it exists today, vine/TikTok, the way we design web pages and software, how accessable someone is expected to be has massively changed socially, music listening and buying patterns are entirely different

    Multiple industries have been severely crippled or killed directly because smartphones became big. They’ve impacted our lives to degrees even people who study this shit don’t understand yet, you’re just so immersed in using them that you’ve forgotten

    Even when you’re not using your phone, you’re likely being impacted in some way by what phones did to our world