Tech addiction is a growing issue that’s often centered around children and teens, but adults are plenty susceptible to problematic behaviors and overuse when it comes to smartphone and social media use.
Pew Research Center surveyed teens ages 13 to …
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We finally started taking screen time seriously in 2018
At the beginning of this year, I was using my iPhone to browse new titles on Amazon when I saw the cover of “How to Break Up With Your Phone” by Catherine Price. I downloaded it on Kindle because I genuinely wanted to reduce my smartphone use, but also because I thought it would be […]
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“Get your face out of your phone, Rachel. Your brother’s here to spend time with you.” These were the words—uttered to me by my mother during a family visit—that yanked me out of the iPhone-addicted vortex I’d fallen head over heels into.
Life was passing me by as I hunched over a tiny screen for six or seven hours a day. A screen that I seemed to deem more deserving of my time and attention than my nearest and dearest family members. I needed an iPhone detox. But, first, I needed to look up from my screen.
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