Reply To: Losing the battle against technology? ⚔️ 📵

Lying about what? Not having a smart phone? I live in Israel. In frum neighborhoods, the default is a kosher dumb phone without SMS capability. and only for adults.
Again, I am not worried about content- that is B”H not my taayva. It would not be for the kids to use, and anyway, a filter is easy enough to install. I am fine with using technoogy in a kosher manner, but I am worried about technology taking over. I will use it for work. And then take it with me when I travel so I can have waze, and then use it to take and send pictures, etc etc. Basically, I don’t see what is so smart about a smart phone, and I rather not have one.

You are obviously not familiar with my bank in Israel. I got a new credit card. The code for the ATM came separately in the mail, but got misplaced. When I asked for a new one, they said they can send it by SMS, or send it to the bank. My branch is not local, and by the time I was able to get there physically, they did not have it and their response was, we will send it by SMS. Back to square one, have no code since I can’t get SMS. Also for my online banking, they keep asking me to update my personal information, but to do so, they need to send a password for verification to the cell phone by SMS. Can’t do that, so have not updated the info. Just praying I don’t get locked out from the online access as a result of not having updated the info.
By the way, my american bank would not let me make a wire transfer without verifying the deal by sending an SMS to my cell phone….I had to settle it the old fashioned way by writing a check.