August Lamm, a writer and artist who was once a social media influencer with more than 170,000 followers, is now convincing others to downgrade their smartphones to "dumb" phones with no functions other than calls or texts. "When your whole social life is online you can feel popular... and then once you put your phone down and you look around and you realise you don't have any friends and you're not doing anything," she tells AFP in her London studio. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES