Suddenly I feel both completely lost — and remarkably freed at the same time. I’ve spent the last hour setting up The Light Phone II, a credit card sized “dumbphone”. I’ve been sorting out the contacts I want to call and SMS, which podcast feeds would be useful and even which mp3s I’d like to upload. But I can’t use the internet on this device. There is no Facebook to make me feel bad about
We’ve all heard of ditching carbs or going easy on the sugar, but a new diet is emerging with benefits that go far beyond slipping into your favorite jeans. The ‘tech diet’ encourages limiting — or completely ditching — smartphones, gaming consoles and other tech for a prolonged period of time to boost productivity and overall mental health. According to research by the monitoring firm App Annie, the average person spends 4.8 hours a day on
It was a concern for parents before the pandemic and it’s only gotten more paramount: what are the dangers of children and young people being brought up on a diet ever-increasing screen-use and passive, digital content consumption? The reality is that the rapid increase in screen use during the pandemic continues, and runs the risk of causing a surge in mental health conditions in young people, according to Dr Ateeq Qureshi, a psychiatrist from the
While digital technology has connected millions of people across the globe and brought many of us closer together, it has also created a lonely and isolating place for others — especially children. The latest phones, laptops and iPads have become must-have accessories that are more important to a young family than a pet. But this exposure to all that info has seen an increase in digital addiction. In fact, it’s becoming so prevalent, that it’s
Social media is everywhere, as Facebook company changes its name to Meta and a second company whistleblower comes forward just weeks after former employee Frances Haugen. She claimed that the company prioritizes profit over public safety and tried to cover up internal research showing that Instagram was damaging the mental health of teenage girls. This is in addition to the first big social media outage, which saw much of the world without access to their
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