Smartphone addiction linked with lower cognitive abilities, less self-control, and worse psychological well-being

PsyPost ^ | 27 November 2022 | Rachel Schepke

[NewHampshireDuo]

I have an old flip-phone G2. I’ve gotten messages from Verizon just about every week to upgrade before the end of the year. I upgraded to a G4 flip-phone. Can’t stand the sight of folks walking around with their noses glued to their smartphone.

[GaltAdonis]

I may be addicted to the internet - but I use desktop computers and
and tablets to access it - not a smart phone - so I must be safe.

You never know when you might need to know the square milage of Greenland.
Or a better sugar-free butter cookie recipe.
Or anything else - anything at all.

But I do NOT use facebook or twitter AT ALL - ever.
So I'm triple-safe.
No, not a moron - not me.

;-)

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PS:

Greenland covers about 836,000 square miles (2.17 million square kilometers), or about three times the area of Texas. Only 158,000 square miles (410,000 square km) of that surface are ice-free.

/Sarc

[ShadowAce]

I've got a smart phone. I do use it for email and texting and phone calls. I even have a game or two on there.

However, I never have it out when I am out eating, or with other people in general. I find that behavior quite rude and insulting.

[Jyotishi]

Hold my beer while I charge my smartphones.

[SaxxonWoods]

Squares with what I’ve noticed about young people who sit around in groups texting people that aren’t present instead of talking to each other.

[newzjunkey]

If I am eating with others, I never have my phone out or get twichy.

Few things more frustrating and socially awkward than being out to dinner with someone who can’t put down the phone because of tik tok. We shouldn’t have to compete with strangers. We’re the ones who show up in these people’s lives. Why remote people talking nonsense on a screen is more compelling than people in person I have no idea. It’s a cultural decay.

It’s scary to be a passenger when the driver is watching tik tok and not the road. It’s sad when people think those they interact with on tik tok but avoid meeting in person are a relationship. Those who are there for you are relationships.

It’s nothing to see young people pull out their phones between customers. They are addicts. It’s no longer the “boob tube” parents need to worry about it’s digital devices. I hate that work has their own mobile devices that we’re required to use because it makes it impossible not to feel like I am part of the problem.

I like the idea of “screen time” on Apple devices but it’s not going to help someone with an addiction. I mean if you are giving up sleep to go online for tik tok live there’s a problem. If you see your worth in how many followers or likes you have it’s a problem. This generation are going to end up like child celebrities. Once the world moves on to the next shiny thing, where will they go for affirmation and self worth?

[newzjunkey]

This. It’s ridiculous but that is their preference.