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Addicted to your smatphone - Coggle Diagram
Addicted to your smatphone
Hook or habit?
Computer technologies can be addictive, they alter mood and often trigger enjoyable feeling.
Smatphones allow us to seek rewards anytime and anywhere
Is it behavior unhealthy?
It depends on whether it's disrupting your work or family life
Small disruption could be ignoring your friend over lunch to post a facebook status about how much you are enjoying lunch with him.
Big disruption could be tuning out a distrssed spouse or colleagues in a meeting to check e-mail, or feeling increasingly stressed by the fact that everyone else seems to be on call 24/7
Researchers are seeing clear signs of dysfunction, if not an "addiction"
environmental triggers such as being bored or listening to a lecture trigger the habits
While the average user checks his or her smartphone 35 times a day for about 30 seconds each time, when the information rewards are greater, users check even more often.
Managing your smartphone use
Steps to control the usage
Be strong
When your phone beeps or rings. You can avoid temptation by turning off the alert signals.
Be disciplined
not using your device in certain situations
When you are with children
When you are driving
When you are in a meeting
not using your device at certain hours
Be conscious
situations and emotions that make you want to check your phone
Perlow's experiment
Taking regular "predictable time off" from PDAs resulted in increased efficiency and better work-life balance.
The interrumped life
The smartphone, more than any other gadget, steals from us
To engage in contemplation and reflection
To be alone with our thoughts
The opportunity to maintain our attention
In a study 1,600 managers and professionals found that
56% check their phone within an hour of going to sleep
48% check over the weekend, including on Friday and Saturday nights.
70% check their smartphone within an hour of getting up
51% check continuously during vacation
44% said that they would experience " a great deal of anxiety" if they lost their phones and couldn't replace it for a week.