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  • I live in France. I did nothing at all for months, but I had and wanted no social life. I returned to my computer because I wanted it, and to a dumbphone because of banks. Without a phone number, there is a lot of things you can’t do with your bank, and I couldn’t access to my bank account anymore. I know people with a landline phone and no dumb or smartphone and it’s ok for the bank, for now.

    I have mail, phone numbers, etc. But what’s really annoying is people are always with whatsapp or signal and I can’t. I feel left out of lot of things. I’m often the last to know social events.

    Edit: and there are lot of services which requires smartphones, even state ones.



  • It was my content but not my comment. It was maybe a decade ago, I was really new on social media and I had a blog. I made a blogpost about something personal, knowing it was public –I found it easier to talk to everyone than to someone I know– but thinking maybe three people at most would read it.

    Somehow, it reached someone from a collective who shared it on twitter, FB, all. Thousands of RT, more of 1000 views on my blog, which was a lot for me. I didn’t know how to handle it, but I think it participated to change my political life.