Smartphone Confessions | Are.na

That said, I’m still addicted to my smartphone. I got my first iPhone in 2007, The hungry birds were my best friend, it got me through my dialysis treatment for 4 hours at a time, 3 days per week. I was 26 at the time, not super young, but young enough to get addicted to this new wonderful device that connected little old shy me to the rest of the ... See more

for nearly fourteen years afterwards, I stared at a smartphone every single day. Five thousand days, all in all. I can’t think of anything else I’ve done with the same level of commitment. There have been days where I’ve had nothing to eat or drink and there have been nights when I didn’t sleep. But until very recently, I never once went twenty-fou... See more

Smartphones provide a nearly endless stream of potential dopamine: a ‘positive social interaction’, or something resembling it, is always but a swipe away. As a result, we’re often mindlessly reaching for our phones without really knowing why and, if we cannot find our phone, we may feel a pang of anxiety.When we sit down to work, our brains don’t ... See more

21 Signs You Might be a Digital Dope Addict

Check all that apply:

1. On average, you engage in passive scrolling at least once a day


2. You check your phone (or some other screen) within minutes of waking up


3. You check your phone (or some other screen) within minutes of going to sleep


4. You check your phone for no reason


5. You have a hard time sitting still (or s

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At the end of the weekend I picked up the phone to check the statistics on how much I'd picked up my phone. The screen-time figures said I'd had 35 minutes on Sunday. On Saturday, I'd had 41 minutes. But on Wednesday, in the grip of unexamined phone dependency, I'd only had 77, and that was the worst day of the workweek—save Monday, when I'd racked... See more

I’m not addicted to my phone. I’m addicted to talking to people and exploring all the world’s information and ideas.