Over the past few months, Facebook has exposed its users to serious problems of massive user privacy violations. The first was the leak of personal data to millions of users, and the second was the hacking of nearly 30 million people.
This was also accompanied by a breach of Google Plus user accounts, which prompted the company to close its platform after announcing a security vulnerability that revealed data of about half a million users.
Because of this, and as a result of the increasing fears of users to penetrate their accounts and personal data and other and other scandals, many users are seeking to return to the traditional cell phones, which became known as "stupid phones," which began to return to the scene again, and because it also helps in privacy and away from the means of communication And its disturbing annoyance.
It can be said that this trend, the return to stupid phones, began some time ago, according to British reports in July that British purchases of stupid phones, as opposed to smart phones, doubled from the same period last year (2017).
According to statistics from the popular eBay shopping site, searches for traditional music listening devices, such as iPods, have doubled.
However, after hacking scandals and leaks of social media, especially Facebook, reports have surfaced that senior technology executives do not allow their children to own smart phones or Internet-connected devices.
The term "stupid phones" also refers to devices that offer a limited number of simple or basic features such as making calls, exchanging text messages, and offline.
Get rid of addiction
In August, there were reports of sudden shifts and developments on "stupid phones" and that more and more people were looking for non-smart phones to get rid of their excessive addiction to social media applications.
A report by Point Point, the smart phone market, showed that stupid phone sales in 2017 rose 5 percent to 450 million, compared with a drop in smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of last year, but grew Smartphone sales in the same year the whole by 2 percent overall.
The University of Derby in Britain went so far as to require a warning on smart phones similar to warning on cigarette packs, saying "The smart phone is linked to addiction."
Away from Internet noise
In addition, many of us have become complacent in data and information, and many are looking to stay away from the Internet in search of comfort and quiet away from the noise of information and data and the Internet in general.
Another reason for the shift to stupid phones is that the evolution of smartphones may have reached a peak. All the new devices announced each year have no real evolution, but some updates and improvements in specific areas only, such as image quality enhancement, The developments are no more formal.
Finally, stupid phones do not drain your wallet, despite the low Internet and international calls by smartphones, but spending on applications and the rise in prices of modern smartphones make them economically inefficient, especially considering all of the above.
