{"id":2872,"date":"2023-03-30T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/gen-z-is-embracing-a-hot-new-technology-flip-phones\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T18:01:00","slug":"gen-z-is-embracing-a-hot-new-technology-flip-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/gen-z-is-embracing-a-hot-new-technology-flip-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z Is Embracing a Hot New Technology: Flip Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Revival Ever-nostalgic Gen Z-ers are resurrecting a bygone ghost of technology&#8217;s past: flip phones, or &#8220;dumb phones&#8221; of a bygone era that long predates the smartphone age. &#8220;I think you can see it with certain Gen Z populations \u2014 they&#8217;re tired of the screens,&#8221; Jose Briones, a dumb phone influencer who moderates the r\/dumbphones subreddit, told CNBC. &#8220;They don&#8217;t know what is going on with mental health and they&#8217;re trying to make cutbacks.&#8221; Honestly? We get it. Kids today have grown up surrounded by more technology than older generations could only imagine, and while phones and social media have become integral to everyday life in a society-shifting way, a lot\u00a0of recent research has suggested that constant exposure to screens and social media might actually be really, really bad for people \u2014 especially for young folks. In short, reclaiming a screen-less, or at least a less-screened, life for yourself makes a ton of sense. We say: dumb phones for all! Minimal Phones According to CNBC, the apparent Gen Z affection for dumb phones isn&#8217;t quite as reflected in sales as it is in social media hashtags. Still, experts aren&#8217;t ruling out the idea that we might see an eventual uptick in sales. That said, the dumb phone creep is also being reflected in a different way: the emergence of dumb phone-adjacent products like The Light Phone, which is marketed as a &#8220;minimal&#8221; \u2014 rather than, you know, stupid \u2014 alternative to smartphones. &#8220;What we&#8217;re trying to do with the Light&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/gen-z-flip-phones\">Gen Z Is Embracing a Hot New Technology: Flip Phones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Revival Ever-nostalgic Gen Z-ers are resurrecting a bygone ghost of technology&#8217;s past: flip phones, or &#8220;dumb phones&#8221; of a bygone era that long predates the smartphone age. &#8220;I think&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,96,99,98,72,100,101,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}