Why do people care so much about what phone another person uses?

I use a flip phone, I'm not a really big tech person I don't really care what phone I have as long as it can call. I have a computer at home for the internet so it's all good but at work my coworkers always make fun of me for having a flip phone, this one girl who I work with is always calling me poor and she even offered to buy me the new iPhone which was probably a joke but whatever. They always tell me to get an iPhone but I just don't want one, i can't care less about cellphones. Why are people like this? It's dumb.

It is dumb. So, why are you so invested in what they are saying at work?

They are dependent on status. The people giving you a hard time are the ones that live on Facebook, like only what is popular and are driven by making sure thy never do anything different because they are afraid that they will get what they are doing to you.
Flip phones do not but dial. They last longer and do not drain batteries or spy on you.

I have a Nokia 3310(updated model) I'm the same I hate mobile phones, I really dislike the idea of being contactable 24/7 by anyone. Its a nuisance more than anything to me.

Because they are all drones who must be the same as everyone else.
I don't want an iPhone, I don't want to have emails sent to me or anything else. I want to be alone with my cheap flip top and don't care what anyone thinks.

A lot of people who can afford better are using flip phones again because they're tired of being hacked. On every red carpet now you'll see celebrities using flip phones.

They are image-driven idiots. Just smile and them and move on. Many of us use flip phones. Mine makes and receives phone calls, sends and receives text messages, takes a modest number of not-very-impressive photos, and acts as an excellent alarm clock.
If I want to go on line, I use my computer.
Your choice of phone is THEIR problem. Don't let their silly attitudes be YOUR problem.

It's a status symbol unfortunately, and most people, I've learned, are conformists and herd-minded. They don't think for themselves like you and I do, they just follow the group and anything that's trending just for the sake of a sense of belonging.

Because many people like to follow the crowd. They don't like to be different from everyone else

They can't justify their own desire for a ridiculously expensive minimally effective phone that is actually a camera and a baby web browser with a phone built in. If you can live with a flip phone in their minds they are being self absorbed and decadent by spending $1000 on a phone that takes pictures, (oh, and so you know, they are being self absorbed and decadent, but as long as everyone else agrees they feel ok about it…), My advice. Stick to your guns, if you don't need to throw your money at a new phone every year, well, it's your money. Take a vacation, and tell these twits that the money you didn't throw away on a phone paid for that vacation, and the down payment for that new car. They're full of Sh*t and don't be afraid to tell them that.

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