Video on open source phones

[pinetester]

I appreciate the nuanced replies, but this is of interest to me:

I only saw half the video, and then I got bored.
His opinion is acceptable but you have to consider the point of view, that of a person who had an addiction to the media.
I am older than him and I experienced the era of the advent of mobile phones as a choice and not as something that you obviously had.
I can say that people who were born in the era of pervasive technology have a distorted view of information technology.

Especially the last line.

So, I was born in a time when the internet was (in practical terms) not there, I was in school when it became a thing that the marginal people (nerds) did. I remember there being a "speed bump" when I was introduced to the internet and how the structure didn't make sense to me and the amount of connectability was "too much". Some years later this became popularized as an idea of "information overload". But at that point I had already adjusted to it.

Now, what happened with social media seems to be another wave of too much, but this time I don't feel like I am able to adjust to it. I can see myself restricting the intake of information with a sort of "brute force" methods, like not going on facebook. Getting the pinephone in a way is a continuation of the same restrictive attitude.

Now, I can see that when tv was at its hayday, there definitely was a feeling that people are just comatosed and receiving their information in a very passive manner, but it seemed to me easier to push back against (although, I still hear some people surprised that I don't own a tv in the traditional sense).

I guess my question is, is it any different now than before? Was it as hard for people "psychicly" to accept tv, or books, or theatre as it is for me to accept social media? Or am I just tied to my generations point of view? You say that the people born with ubiquitous technology have a distorted view, but could this not have been said about tv or books? Are we on the wrong side of a generational divide?

I like books but I do know a lot people (generation doesn't really matter) who never read books except studying in school. So for your question the answer is no. Some people never accept books, some people never accept social media. It is perfectly normal. You may even swap "books" with anything and it is still normal. I can't see the reason why social media should be a special case.