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Are You Dependent Of Your Smartphone?
Dear Reader,
Amazing numbers... the average smartphone user checks their phone 35 times each day, for almost 30 second at a time... pretty incredible for a device we didn't have even twenty years ago. Smartphones have rapidly become an essential most of us find it hard to do without. But why is that? And should we be worried that we're all so suddenly, so completely hooked on this technology? The expert answer is that you should only be concerned if the use of your smartphone is disrupting work or home life.
Trouble is, these disruptions don't have to be big. Ignoring a friend over lunch while you post to Facebook. Checking email regularly, or scrolling through Twitter or Tumblr instead of having real, in person contact and conversation with others or just some downtime, with your own thoughts may be a serious problem. Some experts are sounding the alarm, holding off calling our preoccupation with smartphones an "addiction", suggesting it may be considered more of a "dysfunction" instead.
A 2011 study that appeared in the journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing found that people aren't so much addicted to smartphones as they are hooked on the checking habits that come with the phone. So because you can check in to Facebook, update Twitter and the like, you do. In fact, there are some triggers in the environment (being bored, listening to a lecture) that actually encourage the checking habits.
This isn't anything like the way the laptop changed our world. Smartphones are small and easily carried, simple to use with plenty of free (or low cost) apps, and are always connected. You keep your smartphone near you and the device gives an almost continuous stream of content and alerts as well as quick, easy access to any number of compelling sources of information. It's designed to foster constant interruptions and distractions from other things. What all this is doing to our attention span is anyone's guess.
Smartphones do make it hard to maintain attention, to contemplate or reflect or even be alone with our own thoughts according to author Nicholas Carr, who does not have a smartphone. His research demonstrated that people have a deep, primitive need to know everything that's going on around us. Early on in our evolution this was a reliable defense, but in modern times it may be working against us.
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Are You Dependent Of Your Smartphone? Continued...
If you're concerned about your own, or someone else's, use of smartphones, here are some ways to manage things.
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Be aware of the situations and emotions that make you reach for the phone. Bored?
Lonely? Anxious? Try to find other coping mechanisms instead.
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Don't always answer the alert sound, in fact, put all the sounds on silent so
you won't even hear them or be tempted. You might also try to limit your checking
in to once every 15-minutes.
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Use the connectivity features only when absolutely necessary (phone number/address)
and stop with the internet browser and social media checks on the phone.
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Don't use your device while driving, in a meeting or at after a time of day you
set, such as after 9:00 at night.
Research with participants at The Boston Group found that taking predictable time off from the smartphone brought increased efficiency and collaboration, helped feelings of job satisfaction and gave a sense of better work/life balance. It might well be the same for you.
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Sources:
http://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/addicted-your-smartphone-what-to-do
Psychology Today article, 07.25.13, on smartphone addiction:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reading-between-the-headlines/201307/smartphone-addiction
Original article, Oulasvirta, A. Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, June 16, 2011:
http://www.hiit.fi/u/oulasvir/scipubs/
Oulasvirta_2011_PUC_HabitsMakeSmartphoneUseMorePervasive.pdf
Nicholas Carr, author, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Shallows-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750
Harvard Business School: Breaking the Smartphone Addiction, L Perlow:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6877.html
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