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title: "It is as if you were on your phone"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2025/03/it-is-as-if-you-were-on-your-phone/
last_updated: 2025-03-21
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[It is as if you were on your phone](https://pippinbarr.com/it-is-as-if-you-were-on-your-phone/info/):

> Look at you! On your phone! But you've got a secret! And you won't tell!
> You're not on your phone! It is only as if you were on your phone! You're just
> pretending to be on your phone! On your phone!

> It is as if you were on your phone is an almost speculative game about an
> incredibly near future in which **we're all simultaneously under significant
> pressure to be on our phones all the time, but also to not be on our phones
> all the time**. Our fingers want to touch the screen, our eyes want to watch the
> surface, our brains want to be occupied efficiently and always. But it's also
> exhausting liking photos, swiping profiles, watching short-form video, and
> everything else we're always doing. It is as if you were on your phone
> presents an alternative: pretend to be on your phone so that you pass as
> human, but actually do essentially nothing instead. Follow the prompts and be
> free.

_(emphasis mine)_

Oh, man.