Combining your wallet (or credit cards) with your cellphone, is foolish and personally irresponsible.

I understand the idea of consolidation and easy access. But phone snatching is so prevalent these days, because of how mindless phone droning makes people unaware of their surroundings. You’re basically just including your ID, credit cards, etc into one neat little package.

Spread out your loss and theft surface.

  • GenericUsername34@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    1 year ago

    The convenience of bundling is greater than my perceived risk of theft. Maybe if I lived in a place where pick pockets were more common, the algebra would change. Also, my wallet case only has 1 credit card and my drivers license. It’s pretty easy to cancel a credit card, and a new driver’s license isn’t hard to get.

  • ttmrichter@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Phone snatching is prevalent? I know of precisely zero people who’ve had their phone snatched in my circles in the last decade or more.

  • Kalash@feddit.ch
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    You guys have wallets?

    I just pay with the phone itself and don’t take the actual credit cards with me. And when I do, it’s usually in my backpack, not with my phone.

  • ourladyofrats@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I agree. I liked the combined version for six months, then realized that losing one but not the other meant I could still get home. I’ve only lost my wallet once in the last ten years, but when it happened, I was able to call the restaurant and get a Lift back there to collect it.

  • PrettyBlackDress@lemdit.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    20
    ·
    1 year ago

    I use them. But I keep my cards in my wallet in my purse. Putting my cards in the phone case would just cause me to lose them or forget them. Especially sense I change phone cases so much. I don’t need my debit card available when I’m scrolling my phone in bed