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I would love to live without my smartphone for a year. I'll take two years. To tell you the truth, one of my kids would too. He's 20. Very social, very active, huge friend group...and he actually calls them to talk to them and loves face to face visits. It's so refreshing.
I could easily give up mine for a year. I think the contest wants people that are so addicted to their phones that they would go nuts without it for a year. Probably a younger person. They do not want anyone like me that could easily live without it.
I should enter. I honestly think I could go a year without this phone. I don't have fb...only Instagram, and they have a website I can log in from a laptop of something. Plus they give you a substitute phone for calls and texts. I don't use my phone for things i cant just use on a computer or laptop.
I can tell you I really WISH a whole slew of people would give up their phones, but not for a year, just while they're driving! I'm getting sick and tired of watching people blatantly text on their phone, not trying to hide it either, while they are driving. I will bet you a million dollars these people would never be able to live without their phones for a year, much less 1 hour.
I think car makers need to make a steering wheel that requires 2 hands on the wheel to be able to be driven. It has to have some kind of sensor, like cellphones do, that knows it's skin touching the steering wheel. And if a car manufacturer makes this...contact me, I'll let you know where you can send my check for the idea! Yeah, I know, it's not fool proof. You couldn't eat your French fries, smack your kids, put on your makeup, set your GPS, etc. etc. It was a good idea while it lasted.
Click on the links to the contest and nothing happens. Click on Vitaminwater for more information and you get a 404 error. The video link doesn't say squat about entering the contest, just has 22 seconds of people with cell phones.
My Pops has a ol skool flipper and my Mom has none right now. They don't even like email. They should enter me my phone makes me $$$ it's actually free to use when I calculate the ROI. I still have my legacy S7 and it works great! Clear calls, great speakerphone, great GPS, and text to speech rocks. May wait for the S10 in Feb since S9 has issues.
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Having a smartphone within sight or within easy reach reduces a person's ability to focus and perform tasks because part of their brain is actively working to not pick up or use the phone.
The one who gets to participate will be a Gen Zer most likely with a large instagram following. Otherwise it won't be news worthy.
Of course they aren't going to pick Joe the 65 year old retired construction worker. Nobody is going to find that entertaining. At the end of the day these sweepstakes and competitions are all about earned media and free marketing dollars.
Gen Z is from 2000 and later, so they're 18 or under. Could be a Gen Z'er, but most Millennials (1978 to 1999) are just as into their smartphones, especially the later Millennials.
I'd bet it would most likely be someone from 16 to 25 years old, born 1993 to 2002.
I just scanned the rules and they said that you cannot enter if you are required to use a smartphone for work.
Dang, I would definitely turn BOTH (personal and work) of these devices in for an entire year.
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I'm getting sick and tired of watching people blatantly text on their phone, not trying to hide it either, while they are driving.
I will bet you a million dollars these people would never be able to live without their phones for a year, much less 1 hour.
Yeah, I know, it's not fool proof. 
You couldn't eat your French fries, smack your kids, put on your makeup, set your GPS, etc. etc. It was a good idea while it lasted.
