Still, when I got my phone I decided not to get a data plan, and I think that was a smart move (ba-dum ching). When I'm on wifi I can check my email, and this was super helpful when I was traveling in Argentina and still needed to respond within a day or two to some work emails. Plus, if I'm away from wifi and desperate for information, I can always pay $2 per megabyte. But because of that barrier, in four months I haven't once used my phone for data on the cell network.
Another thing I did was enter a $300 bet with my family that I wouldn't use FB on my phone for 2 years. I can guarantee you I will not lose that bet!
My favorite parts of my phone so far are (a) using the hopstop app to get directions in NY, (b) using Ravid to send video messages to my friends and (c) Swype, the coolest touchscreen typing ever invented! Helpful! Fun!
But what I didn't want my smartphone to do was take away my fifteen minutes of daydreaming on the bus every day. I get to people watch and talk to my favorite bus friends, too. And I still read the poems posted, written by local highschoolers. Here's a recent favorite:
Tell a story
Take a chance
Dance around in your underpants
Do whatever you need to do
Listen to the voice inside of you.
-Brieann Robinson, Lafollette HS, Madison Wisconsin.
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