A new wave has recently appeared that adopts the gradual abandonment of smart phones and replacing them with first-generation phones that provide calls-only service without adopting systems that allow downloading different applications and gave another dimension to the phone until it became a small computer that almost no one can do without.
The goal of the campaign to return to old phones similar to Nokia 3310 devices, is to try to escape the grip of technology that seems to have occupied a large area in our diaries with the accompanying psychological and even physical diseases.
The Research Center for the Study and Monitoring of Living Conditions "Creedbook" confirmed in a recent global survey that 98 percent of youth worldwide between the ages of 18 and 24 have a smartphone.
Clara, a French medical student, says she has been assured that she will not be able to focus on her lessons during the lectures as long as she holds her smartphone.
In an interview with her, quoted by the social research website "Slate", she revealed that she decided to acquire an old phone of the nineties to get rid of the smartphone.
"We are witnessing the emergence of an unhealthy inverse phenomenon which is constant contact," Dominique Boulier, a French sociologist wrote in an analytical article.
In an article published by the Paris University of Social Sciences, Puller said, "With the advent of short messages in the nineties, a person started us exposed to constant unhealthy communication, and with smart devices this phenomenon has become unbelievably satisfactory."
With the spread of different applications, the user somewhat abandoned the use of the phone for the purpose of communicating with others, and they became a lot to download video and music applications, as well as social media applications that took a large portion of the users time, while the developed screens took their health!
In this regard, Professor Puller says, "Today, with the smartphone, the idea of the phone as a communication tool has completely disappeared.
"That is why we saw some users give up their smartphones, as some applications put some pressure on them," he added.
Sylvie Shawcron, a neuropsychologist and author of a report on the impact of screens on the cognitive processes of the European Audiovisual Observatory, says that smart phone screens made us give up mental faculties, the first being auditing, roasting and analysis, which require daily practice in order to ensure their permanent operation.
Shawkron calls this phenomenon "smart naivety", as for him smartphones do not stimulate our minds but rather numb them.
Another health issue related to smartphones is the radiation that has become an obsession for many users who are ready to give up their phones because of their threat to sight.
This is evidenced by the lawsuit filed in October 2019 by the American law firm Vergan Scott in response to a study by the "Chicago Tribune", which revealed that six smart phones from Apple and Samsung will exceed the permissible emission levels of electromagnetic waves with new phones that there is a real health problem Threatens all smartphone users.
Besides these problems, young people are concerned about the dangers of transferring their personal data and breaking their privacy and private lives.
Those (returnees to first-generation phones) also see that the materials on which smartphones are made threaten the environment "at a time when we have to preserve it as long as everything threatens our planet," says Clara, a student at the Department of Medicine at the University of Paris.
The smartphone industry experienced its first annual decline since its inception in 2018, and China, which has a monopoly on a third of smart phone sales in the world, had experienced an 11 percent drop in sales in 2018.
According to the International Data Institute, the first quarter of 2019 saw a decrease in smartphone shipments by 6.6 percent worldwide.
