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Hey, everybody.
It's Marielle.
I am in a constant battle with my phone because I don't want to live inside of a device, right?
I want to live in the world, among the trees and the sky and the people.
Okay, only sometimes the people.
But I, like so many of us, spend so many hours scrolling through stuff on my phone.
And often it starts like this.
I pick up the phone to look at something for work.
I see, oh, my friend texted.
Oh, I have an email.
And then I'm sucked into a black hole.
That's the allure of smartphones.
It's essentially you went to your smartphone,
you open it up to do something, and you end up doing something else.
And it's hard to quit.
Because my phone plays so many roles in my life.
It delivers messages.
It's my alarm clock, my GPS, my camera.
It's what I use to quickly get a ride to the other side of town.