But if suddenly a HUGE percentage of your friends, your coworkers, and people you walk by in the streets start having the same birthday as you or start all wearing the exact same tshirt as you all the time, it starts to become a little disconcerting.
1. Get a case or skin for your iPhone. It will look different from other people's.
2. Do some serious thinking about WHY you have a phone at all. It sounds like you want to impress people. ("Look how different I am.") Yes, you disclaim that, but that is the impression your give. Consider how you USE the phone, not what someone else thinks.
3. Grow up a bit and understand that your "individuality" has NOTHING at all to do with what ANYONE ELSE does. Period. Do you eat food that no one else eats? Do you wear a toga or a loincloth instead of the same kind of clothes other people wear? Individuality doesn't mean doing something "different." It means doing what is true for you, even if that is the same (or using the same phone) as for many other people.
I teach riding--dressage, jumping, etc. Sometimes, my students will say that their goal is to win something. I try to explain to them that, for most people, that's an inappropriate goal. (If one is VERY talented rider and has a superb horse, it might be appropriate, but, even then, such a rider with such a horse would be competing at a level where there would be other people who were also very talented with very good horses.) Don't let your goals depend upon what someone else does: they should be based only on what YOU do. Don't
4. If you want to be "different," don't get a smartphone, at all. After all, nearly every model worth owning will have been bought by hundreds of thousands of people.
I expect that my phone (Samsung SCH-A650 on Verizon) is more "different" from what other people use than any smartphone. It's almost 7 years old. (My 2-year contract expired just about the same time the original iPhone came out in June, 2007.) It's a simple "flip phone." There's no camera, no email, no internet, no "apps," no music, no video, no photos. The aluminum paint is worn off in place. It does make phone calls and can do text, though texting is a pain--and expensive. I have no free text messages in my plan, so each text sent or received is $0.25. Maybe you should trade your iPhone for my Samsung. You'd certainly be "different." You'd also probably save money on your monthly bill. If you want to trade, let me know.
