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Do you think you're addicted to your phone? How long could you go without it? Are you a phubber? Do you suffer from FOMO? – How long do you spend on your smartphone? – My smartphone? I should tell you that I suffer from FOMO – Fear of Missing Out. Something cool or interesting m ight be happening somewhere and I want to be sure I catch it, so I have to keep checking my phone, to make sure, you know, I don't miss out on anything. – So we could call you a phubber...Someone who ignores other people because you'd rather look at your phone. According to one recent survey, half of teenagers in the USA feel like they are addicted to their mobile phones. If you are addicted to something, you have a physical or mental need to keep on doing it. You can't stop doing it. You often hear about people being addicted to drugs or alcohol, but you can be addicted to other things too, like mobile phones. – I think everybody's had that experience of reading their news feed too much, compulsively checking your phone if you're waiting for a text or getting really into social media then kind of, looking up and realising that an hour has passed. We can get so involved in our phones that we don't notice the time passing and when we finally look up, we realise that maybe an hour has gone. And I must say, I find that to be true for me, especially when I'm watching videos online. They pull you in with more and more videos and I've spent ages just getting lost in video after video. If you do something compulsively you can't really control it – you feel you have to do it again and again. Some tech companies, though, are now looking at building in timers to apps which will warn us when we have spent too long on them. It might mean that people look at social media less frequently and that they do what it really should be used for, which is to keep in touch with people but then put it away and go see some of those people in person or give them a phone call. We should be using it for keeping in touch with people – which means contacting people, communicating with them and also encouraging us to do that communication in person. If you do something in person then you physically do it – you go somewhere yourself or see someone yourself, you don't do it online or through your smartphone!So, does she think it's a good idea? Well, she doesn't say so directly, but we can guess from her answer that she does, because she says... |
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