My former best friend and I stopped talking a year and a half ago. For the last six months of our friendship we barely saw each other and instead texted or talked on the phone. I hated it and became disgusted with my phone. After we stopped talking I ended up getting rid of my phone. It was the most liberating thing I was able to do for myself at the time. I went without a phone for almost 9 months until people started getting pissed that they could never get in contact with me and so I had to get a new one.

If I got rid of the thing tomorrow I wouldn't exactly shed a tear. It's $80 a month I could put towards something less annoying.