CHICAGO, Feb. 2 (UPI) – A Chicago student who spent 90 days abstaining from cellphones and social media said the first two weeks were “anxiety-ridden.” Jake Reilly, 24, a student at the advertising and design-focused Chicago Portfolio School, said he was originally only going to give up his phone, but he decided to expand it to all social media when he realized his communication would just migrate to other forms of technology, the Chicago Tribune reported Thursday. Reilly said the first two weeks of his project, which he began in October, were “anxiety-ridden.” ”All of a sudden, you get home on a Friday night and there’s no one around and it’s just you and your thoughts,” he said. “Very scary.” However, Reilly said he soon found staying away from cellphones and Facebook increased his face-to-face interactions and made him more active. ”I rode my bike all over the city,” he said. “I made collages. I did puzzles. I did all these things that I normally never would have considered. And you know what, I loved all that.”

Hey dude enjoy your collages and jig saw puzzles and shit. I’ll be on my iPhone playing games listening to music reading the Stool and sexting. But I’m sure not knowing where any of your friends are or having any social plans at all is so “liberating” right? Thats what people always say about their cell phones. The call it their ball and chain and shit. Look back on the days of no cell phones like it was some golden era. I don’t understand those people. Somebody calls you that you don’t wanna talk to? Don’t answer. Somebody texts you and you don’t give a shit? Don’t respond. Not like that slut Siri has a mind of her own and is gonna sit there talking to you all day.

Plus there’s really only like 3 people I enjoy interacting with face to face. My cell phone is my buffer that allows me to maintain my friendships with everyone else without seeing them in person and listening to them blab on and on. So Jake Reilly and anybody else who feels this way can go ahead and catch AIDS from pay phones and memorize phone numbers. I’ll be the dude using my cell phone like a normal person.