Cell phone addiction VS real life?
It may sound silly, but I always wonder how it could have happened that so many people would rather stare at a screen for hours instead of devoting themselves to real life?
I'm like that myself, but I still don't understand how it can happen. Yes, I've seen the videos where you can see the chemical processes that take place in your brain while you're on social media. But somehow you're supposed to realize that reality is more important and interesting, right? Life flies by so quickly when you're just staring at a screen, and you start to develop mental health problems when you see all the "perfect" people, relationships, careers, houses, etc. That can't be healthy.
As I said, I spend too much time on my phone, but I'm trying to cut down and learn what real life means again.
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A fundamental problem is impulse control. The mobile phone, or in general social media, or even more generally the Internet provide an inconceivable wealth of information that is attractive to the brain in the short term, often problematic in the long term
If there is a high impulse control, it is better to weigh between the relevant stimuli of life with the big questions and the fast, short stimuli of happiness. If the stimuli are too strong or the impulse control is too bad, the stimuli are given. In addition, these stimuli are extremely readily available and cost almost no energy. On the other hand, real life is pissed off by planning and problems, and the rewards are only greatly delayed
In many cases, this leads to the fact that they get into the strudel, attract more and more stimuli and leave the brain less and less time for important things, making the important things more and more accumulating and, for example, problem management increasingly difficult, making the simple, fast stimuli increasingly attractive
I can recommend to get out of there to schedule a lot of offline and idle time. Especially in situations that you can use for your mobile phone quickly: when you go to the toilet for a short time, during the break, for a walk or just for a longer time. If you don’t distract yourself here, the brain gets the chance to get a little more overview and ask such questions as you just asked them:)
Thank you. Yes I notice it very quickly that it makes a difference when I get less involved with social media in leisure. Thank you.
Yes, I don’t think it should be typified in general and can be used quietly. What happens in your head (apart from these questions :D) when you take a break?
Uh, thanks for the star 🙂
I just feel better in general.
This comes from the fact that you have been exposed to it in the early years and you get to know nothing else as a child, so you don’t even know the beautiful things in life or because you don’t find any other way out, because you don’t find any connection to friends by digitalization, and you don’t have any other employment, and you may become even more intimate and lonely.
But there are so many jobs without screen. You shouldn’t confront children with screens so early or give them a tablet to play instead of really playing.
Well, think about
the real life is for many not beautiful or mostly boring
With mobile you can distract yourself or talk to people or actually you can do everything
As you may see on my question, I have already thought about it. You can’t be happier even if you see how great it has strangers.
That’s how today’s generation is.
Everyone in my class will pick up their phone right in the breaks and don’t know what they can do instead of glotting on the screen.
That’s really sad.
Hobbies somehow die from 😅
People have learned to talk. You can’t find any other topics. Actually, I’m getting involved with how I don’t know how to talk to someone about something, but I always feel bad and don’t look at the phone.