{"id":34611,"date":"2026-03-08T12:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=34611"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:38:43","slug":"craving-something-real-why-people-are-going-analogue-and-cutting-digital-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=34611","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Craving something real\u2019: why people are going analogue and cutting digital use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/05\/cabb44d2-68a3-4a94-b6b5-f11b3c845ebc_34f38497.jpg?itok=mr2COypj&amp;v=1772692584\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the dawn of 2026, social media influencers proclaimed it the year of the \u201canalogue lifestyle\u201d, a call to reduce digital connectivity as smart tech and screen time dominate a person\u2019s attention span.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Selly Tan, an influencer from California, says people are \u201ccraving something real again\u201d and vowed to print her photos, read more books and magazines, and take up hobbies that do not need Wi-fi.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Rosie Okatcha, an influencer from the United Kingdom, proclaimed the year would be \u201cThe Age of Analogue\u201d, with consumers swapping music streaming for iPods and vinyl records, and choosing crafting over <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">doomscrolling<\/span>.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sanchi Oswal, an influencer from Germany, said in a post that she felt going analogue would reduce her \u201cexposure and reliance on digital stimuli\u201d and, in particular, on her phone.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For generations that grew up in an entirely digital world, dependence on technology is a familiar habit that some are trying to break.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cFrom noon to 5pm, I\u2019m looking at screens all day, and then I\u2019m going home, and I\u2019m just looking at my phone, scrolling on social media,\u201d says Lillie Beacope, a senior at the University of Southern California (USC) enrolled in a class on entertainment, marketing and culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/gadgets\/article\/3345536\/craving-something-real-why-people-are-going-analogue-and-cutting-digital-use?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the dawn of 2026, social media influencers proclaimed it the year of the \u201canalogue lifestyle\u201d, a call to reduce digital connectivity as smart tech&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[10515,4146,9346,1238,121,2492],"class_list":["post-34611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-analogue","tag-craving","tag-cutting","tag-digital","tag-people","tag-real","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}