>Even in it's absence it is a presence.

Yes!  I read this in one of your comments.  This is exactly how it feels.  I have to sit here and literally intentionally tell myself not to pick up my phone, I’m spending family time and text messages, emails and Google can wait.  I find myself still thinking about things (including Hive) when I’m taking a break from my phone.

I love this post and agree with every aspect you talked about.  I too miss those days when you had to make an effort to get online instead of it being right next to us all day long.  Conveniences make us more lazy along the way.  What we used to have to take time to read and research about we can easily ask Siri to do for us.  Remember when phone books were in use?  I remember when my mom used to ask me to look through it to find certain business and I cringed.  It took time and effort but now it only takes seconds.

I think it’s a healthy practice to take time away from our devices and tune in to our family and friends and focus more on what’s in front of us in that moment.
 
This was such a great read ~

I remember the dedicated area for the big beige box. My area didn't look too different from yours. It was nice having this one area for the internet and not having it follow us around everywhere, and our brand of uber-capitalism hadn't yet spread to Internet and infected everything. We didn't even have ads on webpages for a very long time, and none of the search engines had paid results. The convenience of having the Internet on our phones goes without saying. But at the same time, I do find myself purposefully allowing my phone to die every now and again as a way of escaping back to that time when it wasn't everywhere. 

I must admit to sitting when I am a vegetable and watching tiktoks on my husband's old phone. And I generate my posts exclusively on an old computer Tom keeps running for me. But mostly I don't use online stuff much and seldom communicate with people that way. I prefer a telephone or in person.

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Technology is really High-tech these days. Sometimes I talk to elderly customers on the phone who complain that they miss the time when they only thought about turning ON and OFF when operating appliances and gadgets.😐

I've been out for a while and don't regret. I find my life is severely digital and I'd like to enjoy more time reading books and getting healthy.

The internet has been a blessing in many ways, but I agree that many things used to be simpler. At times, and in some things, it seems to move forward and become more complicated. I had forgotten about Messenger! What a great memory. I liked it because I could talk to my best friend at the time, who lived far away.

In Cuba we have had mobile data for a few years (2018), previously very few people accessed the internet. I have not yet reached a decade in the use of networks and I have, sometimes, the feeling that it has been all my life 

The previous weekend I was on a silent retreat, in the middle of the mountains, without connection.When I returned, the world remained the same😬😁 

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not many people on board for this fight anymore

>Now we go down Tik Tok rabbit holes for more hours than are healthy.

A rabbit hole indeed. Had to set a timer to this particular app because it took most of my time which of course wasn't healthy to me educationally and intellectually. I still visit the app once in a while but I don't spend more than ten minutes on it. 

I second everything in this article. I grew up to witness my parents going to the cyber cafe and paying for their services but I never did myself. Thinking of it, I know it'd be a beautiful experience. I mean life was simple back then and fun; my dad says it almost every time and I wish I was born in that age. The internet right now is a place of oppression.