[joshstrange]

These articles are a complete waste of time. They cherry-pick examples from a literal handful of people and declare "Old thing is new again!" and people upvote it here like it's at all based in reality.

This is just like the "Teens are starting to use flip phones" or "Teens are starting to use paper maps" BS stories we've also seen on HN.

It's the laziest form of "journalism", it's just clickbait trash. A handful of people is not a trend. Please stop upvoting this nonsense.

[magic_hamster]

There's an abundance of young people looking to get away from apps, smartphones and being constantly online. Sure landlines are not making a huge comeback, but these young people are looking for alternatives. You hear some revival attempts for old tech because it's focused on doing one thing like making a call or playing music while not taking over your attention and time. People want to stop doomscrolling. Meta, Apple and other huge corpos are betting on wearables and are already using marketing that emphasizes unobtrusive tech. We'll see what happens.

[joshstrange]

> There's an abundance of young people looking to get away from apps, smartphones and being constantly online.

Press X to doubt.

I believe that people are, slowly, waking up to the dangers of all these things but I don't believe for a second there is an "abundance" of young (or old) people who feel that way. I wish that was the case, but it's clearly not. And I'd love to see more articles about that but on-off or small groups of people throwing the baby out with the bathwater aren't helpful IMHO.

I am in favor of not allowing students to use phones in school, of banning social media for young people (though age verification is a can of worms), etc. I just think articles about "Landlines are ringing in homes again" are silly, not based in reality, and a waste of all our time.