Your Smartphone's Smashed Screen Is Now A Status Symbol, Apparently

[Initech]

Brittany Lofton spots them all the time: teenagers and university students clutching their beat-up mobile phones, with screens so cracked that spider-web-like patterns creep across the glass.

Sure, the screen's razory shards make reading a text and posting Instagram photos super blurry, not to mention slightly painful.

But that's part of the appeal.

Introducing the cracked smartphone screen, which raises the bar by lowering it. Think of it as the tech generation's ripped jeans or unwashed hair. Unshaven faces. Low-riding jeans. People who love high-low decor and city streets.

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The blanket-of-broken-glass look infuriates many parents who can pay a couple of hundred dollars to fix the screen or, if that's not possible, even more for a replacement phone.


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[d_r]

1. well looks like

I've set another fashion trend

[Inkfreak]

2. My sister-in-law just cracked hers.

I shoulda told her she is a trendsetter. That'll be sure to ease her irritation. Or add to it.

[MADem]

3. There used to be a very old saying "Every fault's a fashion."

I always took it to mean there's no end to what will appeal to followers if someone perceived to be a leader acts like it's the cool thing to do.

I don't have a smartphone, so I'll skip that 'fashion.'