Ditch the smartphone

Smartphones have meant a revolution for communication and how we exchange and share information. We use them in all aspects of our lives:

-to keep in touch with family and friends;

-to stay up to date with local and world news;

-to search for stuff that interests us;

-to use social media;

-to quickly check in on what’s going on at work;

-to plan weekends, visits, trips;

-etc.

Practically there are very few things that the modern person will do without help from the smartphone. This small piece of technology has become essential for the modern way of living. This means however that the tool has become the master and we are all its servants. We can all feel the persistent urge to scroll through the different apps and look at the notifications as soon as they come in. Wanting to achieve all things easily through the phone, we realize that we start disconnecting with the real life, with the real people and activities around us, and we miss out. The phone becomes an intermediary that holds power over us and prevents us from living in the real world.

What is there to be done? You cannot just ditch the smartphone as you risk exclusion from society. Well, in some cases, you can completely ditch the smartphone from your life, better to take some risks than to waste your life altogether. But, in most cases, just blocking daily time when you forbid yourself to touch the phone will be enough.

As an incentive to start making changes, watch this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QugooaNRnsk

Examples of techalcoholism

Techalcoholism is a kind of addiction (also known as dependence or vice) that is very common these days. In contrast to other kinds of more traditional addictions (alcohol, drugs, smoking, sex, etc.), which are very well known by most people and recognized as damaging to the human being, techalcoholism is fairly new in the addictions market and many are quite clueless to its existence and potential harming effects.

You only need to have a deeper look at yourself and around you to see all kinds of techalcoholism: phone addiction, social media addictions, porn addiction, gaming addiction, different movie genres addiction, news addiction, etc. Techalcoholism is present everywhere and its consequences, just like the consequences of traditional addictions, can also be felt everywhere.

Intro to techalcoholism

With the exception of a few isolated tribes and marginal populations, all of us living today are more or less dependent on technology. Our essence as modern people, our belonging to the modern world, is defined through the large-scale use of technology, which gives us means to achieve things that were not possible before or were possible to a much lesser degree. It is however precisely this essential character that technology has for the modern person, this feeling of being indispensable, that makes some of us ignore the risks and dangers that a reckless usage of technology entails. This is how technology addictions come to be with all their negative effects, this is how some of us become techalcoholics.