Comment by corncob15

A lot of these comments could read very differently depending on the age and living situation of the commenter. I'm a college student who likes to travel and usually doesn't have access to a personal vehicle (or I'm in cities where using a car is more annoying than not). I could probably keep up a perfectly fulfilling social life only using my laptop and its chat services, although I would definitely find it annoying. If I was forced to live without a smartphone, I'd be much more worried about the non-social things, mostly to do with transportation. I use my phone to pay public transit fare, unlock e-bikes or e-scooters, request rideshare services, display airline boarding passes, generally find my way in unfamiliar places, and so on. If I spent 99% of my time in the same city and mostly drove a personal car around, I wouldn't need those things as much.