Roughly 1,600 TikTok posts were tagged #AnalogLife
If you're posting on tiktok about how unplugged you are, you're doing it wrong
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2025
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I have no problem just sitting down with nothing to do. I bring a book or go on my phone so that I dont waste my time starring into space dreaming.
I have a 30min bus ride to and from work its perfect for reading or listening to music or steamdeck. Most of the time i just do nothing but gaze out the window.
With these tiktok trends and 'stop scrolling' videos Im happy they are feeling the effects of social media and actually taking action.
The 31-year-old keeps one bag at home in Northern California, carrying it from room to room, and another in her car
I think the problem is that we've forgotten how to just do nothing and be content with it (or even a bit bored with it). While I think unplugging is good, this just seems like replacing one kind of attention addiction with another.
It's not attention addiction. Note that it's supposed to replace consumption with creative / problem solving activities. If you're addicted to watercolors, at least you will be getting better at the craft. If you're just consuming online content / doomscrolling you're just wasting time.
This is probably a good methadone, though. It's way easier to kick a watercolor addiction than an addiction to an app purpose-developed by a whole team of engineers to string people along with the minimum possible dopamine drip for as long as they can manage.
Yep. Encouraging a whole new generation of casual artists, makers and readers can only be seen as a great thing. I would just add that we all need to remember how to slow down, and understand that's good and necessary to do so every so often.
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But silence reminds me of the impending actual and factual and imminent terror and doom about to strike us all!
I've gradually weaned off of smartphones over the last 18 months. Currently daily-driving the Minimal Phone and loving its distraction-free (or at least distraction-lite) ways.
I may not be analog like the article is highlighting, but I have basically eliminated the doom scrolling and have reignited my passion for reading (the one "distraction" the Minimal Phone does well is being an e-reader since it's got an e-ink screen).
Roughly 1,600 TikTok posts were tagged
#AnalogLifeduring the first nine months of 2025
I'm just going to ignore the irony of that and appreciate it at face value 😆
Ngl, how else are you going to get the trend to spread to those who are perma locked on social media?
It is like saying you can't make a youtube video criticizing youtube.
How is the Minimal phone for using apps? Sometimes I feel like want a phone that does less and I like the price point. Just want to make sure I can keep using my phone plan and the few apps that I need. It says its fully andriod compatible so I assume they can run them but are they still usable
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Take up knitting. I'm serious.
I broke my wrist and took up knitting for physical therapy.
I'm starting to look at weaving from natural fibers. I have yucca in my yard. The roots are a calorie source and the fronds can make durable shoes.
you are cool and i am proud of you, random person online
Looks Great!
Nice work!
BE CAREFUL following this advice! My friend took up knitting a few years back and now we have two cat beds, a few scarves, a blanket, and her house is overflowing with shaped yarn goodies. It seems very addictive.
I've always joked that coding as a hobby is just digital knitting lol.
But that takes braaaaaaaainnnnnn :(
Hi serious.
Don’t. I have like five boxes of yarn.
Those are rookie numbers
I like the idea behind this but how do you promote your analog life on TikTok without also using tech at the same time
I think there's a difficult intersection of
a. This stuff is cool and trendy right now so a lot of that content is aspirational
b. TikTok is addictive and extremely hard to kick + lots of people now see it as their primary source for style and lifestyle inspiration leading back into a.
as others've typed out: not a zero sum act.
just below two hours a day and brain isn't rotting.
also i'd reformulate: not necessarily simultaneous, just some time. can be disjointed in time: to look up or record and to do in the everyday groove.
You don’t have to quit cold turkey.
Oh for sure and you prob never get rid of it completely, just find a healthier balance. It just feels ironic recording an analog activity in front of a smartphone
I think the idea is to get a break from the digital life, not abandon it completely
Zoomers are in their 30s now? [insert Matt Damon ageing GIF]
Depends on the cutoff line. But i would typically say Zoomers are too young to remember 9/11 and old enough to have grown up with Marvel movies. Born late 90's-early 2010's. 30 is around the cutoff between Millennials and Zoomers so that wwill come down to individuals. But also, generations are pretty suspect as a concept outside of the Baby Boomers since that was an actual charatable phenomen
I see it as anybody too young to remember a world that wasn't connected 24/7, somebody who in their child/teen years that didn't make heavy use of the phone attached to the kitchen wall to contact friends. Someone who's never had to seriously use dialup Internet or an 8/16 bit computer.
It's typically best not to use things dependent on wealth to assess age groups. A kid growing up in Hamtramck had very different experiences from a kid growing up in Birmingham Michigan, even though those two areas are only 10 miles apart.
i mean culturally i also relate to the older generation in the case of digitalization if i grew up rurally with poorer parents. so a zoomer in a millenial cultural upbringing since poor + rural = lagging on trends. i'd call it millenial
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Nice, I can finally put that free tote bag I got with a magazine subscription to use.
A magazine subscription?
Vanity fair sends a free tote bag with new subscriptions lol I have no use for it. But now I might.
You can do both
this seems to just be subbing one obsession for another. if you have to create a bugout bag because you have a scroll addiction, I think that maybe warrants a better look at properly managing your own behavior.
just put the damn thing down and read a book, or paint something. you don't need to declare war on smart phones. or even eliminate them from your life. just take some responsibility for your device use.
i mean strong emotions lead to collective change. telling a person they should Not express all this emotion and Not talk about it like they do just isolates the person into not feeling it's a big trend. also increases self-shaming. then it never happens for those who obviously have been unsuccsessful so far. /info
did you mean this comment to go to a different thread? cause my comment has nothing to do with anything you've said.
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