I don’t really know, since I grew up during the 2010's in the decade when cell phones really began do develop and people really started to always own one or always talk about it.
Though I remember when I was in kindergarten during the late 2000s and early 2010s, some people used to have keyboard phones only. I really wonder how the 90s or the early 2000s, or even the decades before looked like when people didn’t necessarily live with a phone or any technology. My parents also tell me about life without cellphones, and it seemed so simpler back then. I almost feel nostalgic to a period I never experienced. It feels weird 😅😂
Today, I have to admit that I am worried. Almost everything is digitalized and configurated into people’s cellphones. It seems they want people to get dependant of it. Now you can shop, order online, and do even more and more administrative procedures. For me, the problem is what might happen if these systems fail to provide the data we need most...
@Etienne I agree with you 😅🥲 I can confirm it is not really enforced in high schools 😂 on the contrary, until I finished high school a few years ago, some teachers were even asking us to use it at school (for work purposes but still). Though if they saw you with it in the halls or in the courtyard they would indeed confiscate it to you.
But still it shows that people are becoming more and more dependent of phones.