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Rob Henderson introduced me to George Mack's suggestion of fixing bad smartphone habits by having two phones: the Kale phone and the Coke phone. Rather than using one phone for everything, uncouple the good from the bad. Your kale phone only contains Google Maps, notes and Kindle, and only 2-3 people know the number. Your coke phone has Facebook, Instagram, Xitter, WhatsApp etc., and you give this number out to anyone you want to. You bring your kale phone with you everywhere but make a point of only looking at your coke phone at designated times.
I bought a new phone recently and I'm experimenting with a variant on this. While my new phone does have WhatsApp and I don't have two phone numbers, I've made a point not to install Instagram or Facebook on it and have disabled YouTube (but not uninstalled – think I need to enable developer options or something). My new phone comes with me everywhere, while I leave my old phone (which has Instagram, Facebook etc. installed on it) at home. It's been less than a week but so far I think it's helping, and I'm feeling less of a compulsion to look at my phone on public transport.
Now all I need is to find a way to block this site from my new phone.
Rather than that, you could just use an ereader and a regular phone. Ereaders can only really be used for reading, and there's a ton of stuff that's still better to read that browsing social media. Even royalroad slop is better.
At least for me, the idea of having two phones is a waste of money, but I don't use my smartphone that much, just my pc/laptop.
I hate e-readers, reading books on them feels like work. I'd never buy two phones at the same time, but hanging on to my old phone while it's still working makes sense.
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