Emma's Tech Blog

I try not to be on my phone a lot. This boundary is something I have deliberately tried to keep up since I began using a smartphone when I was younger. I am old enough to remember a time before the iPhone, but I also am young enough that I had a cell phone (read: flip phone) in middle school mostly intended for parental contact. But I have watched and participated as the smartphone has become more and more essential to our daily lives . Perhaps, I was born with luddite tendencies, or I learned this judgment subconsciously, but I was never quite comfortable with phone and internet use overtaking my life. For this reason, I have an on-again, off-again relationship with the Instagram app and find myself deleting it off my phone several times a year only to redownload it after an appropriate time away . I also don’t have that many apps on my phone; I have three pages and none of them are full. I have never understood why people need so many apps. If you have more than three pages o...