re: What was it like growing up without a smartphone?

I wish so badly we could go back to the days of no smart phones and computers being something "fancy" that you couldn't even rely upon.

I had a great childhood where I, for the most part, just had a flip phone and then slide phone. I didn't need 100 apps on my phone, I didn't need the ability to text easily, my phone was mainly for making phone calls and that was totally fine with me.