Don’t You Have a Smartphone has become an integral part of our daily life? Smartphones are being used from simple household work to complex office work. Phone, which has become an important part of modern life, has made most of our work easier. It is said that whatever has a positive aspect, there is also a negative aspect attached to it.
In terms of smartphones, the ratio of positive and negative aspects is almost equal. Most people now have access to a phone. Every year the number of people facing stressful situations is increasing. The main reason for this is the smartphone we use.
How does smartphone addiction feel?
There are some major reasons behind any addiction. Take cigarettes for example. It is believed that a person who keeps smoking is addicted to its smoke or cigarettes. In fact, tobacco products contain a chemical called ‘nicotine’, which produces a chemical called ‘dopamine’ in some parts of our brains.
This chemical changes the mood. That makes us happy for a while. Our brain is searching for that chemical every time for that pleasure.
Since that chemical is easily found in cigarettes, we are forced to smoke cigarettes. Similarly, we feel the bottom of cigarettes. The same applies to smartphones. Just like the nicotine in cigarettes is addictive, there are various factors behind smartphone addiction.
In fact, there are such engineers as the backbone of social networks, who are always focused on capturing people’s attention. They are also called attention engineers in scientific language.
This is the same attention engineer, who has prepared an attractive gambling game in the casino. These engineers can play with the human mind to create such a design, which once used, people become addicted to it. They create programs that make it impossible for users to leave their apps.
If someone compliments us on social media, we like that compliment. The feeling of being praised is the release of the dopamine chemical in our brain. Focusing on this human nature, the option of liking and commenting on social media is provided.
How to get rid of smartphone addiction
It doesn’t mean that you can’t live without your smartphone. Reading this phrase may seem strange to you. Some people in the world live under the illusion that they cannot live without a smartphone.
We must be confident that we can remove the bottom we put on. If you’re not addicted to that level, stay away from your phone right now.
Turn off notifications
First, distinguish which app you are most active on. Once you find the app you are most active with, turn off notifications from it.
Various studies have shown that most of the users use the app because of the push notifications that go through the app. In this way, when you don’t see the notification, you don’t have to run the app. And, the attraction towards the phone decreases.
Take a break
When you start using the phone, you don’t know how many hours have passed. When we go from one app to another app, our time is spent on it. Remembering the time wasted while using the phone makes you regret it later. To get rid of this habit, you have to take a break for some time.
It is difficult to give up the phone addiction when you are alone in the room for hours. Leave the phone in the room and go for a walk. Make a separate schedule that you will use the phone for this purpose every day. In this way, it is mentioned in the researcher’s study that after starting to work according to the schedule, the habit of taking a break from the phone develops.
Take digital wellbeing seriously
Most of the smartphones that have come into the market recently have a digital well-being section. Where it is mentioned how much time we used which app in a day. Challenge yourself to use your phone less time today than yesterday.
As you pursue your own challenge, there comes a point where you stop using your phone for anything other than specific work.
Use social media less
We have mentioned above that we are addicted to our phones because of social media. Social media itself is not a bad thing. However, the question arises as to why to use it. If you only use it for information, then only follow different news sources.
If only to talk to friends, use Messenger or a messaging app for a limited time. If you want to keep the photo in the archive, upload the photo and put it in ‘Only Me’. Stop posting stories or other unnecessary content on social media.
In this way, you can stay away from social media. The most important thing is whether your phone has helped or addicted you. If used positively for creative work, it will bring positive changes in your personal life. So how you use your phone is important.