7 Obvious Dangers of Constant Smartphone Use
The vicious price we pay for using our beloved gadgets
These shiny pieces of glass and plastic ruin our lives.
The horrifying impact is so obvious, we’d easily notice it if not for gadgets invading and occupying our everyday existence.
Gadgets are parasites, pretending to be symbiotics.
In the modern era, smartphones have invaded every part of our lives.
Smartphones have become our lives.
We rely on them for communication, information, entertainment — just name everything people can and cannot do, but how often do we think about the consequences for our physical and mental health?
The article explores the 7 most obvious ways in which smartphones destroy your life (or slightly worsen)
1. Reduced Enjoyment of Life
The addictive nature of smartphone use leads to a diminished sense of contentment in our day-to-day lives.
Probably, the hardest thing after waking up is fighting the temptation to take the smartphone into your hands.
Want to ruin your day — open social media.
Resisting the brain’s craving requires so much moral will and intentional training, only the most motivated ones can accomplish this task.
You’re more than your brain, aren’t you?
A blind dive into the depths of the digital interpretation of the world can feel fantastic in a moment, but life doesn’t consist of a single moment.
The constant engagement with screens diminishes our ability to derive pleasure from real experiences. The fight is far from even, as nothing material stimulates as the virtual world does.
2. Text Neck and Postural Issues
This is the most obvious one, by the way)
One of the most prevalent issues associated with constant smartphone use is the development of “text neck”. In the younger generation, it should probably be called “TikTok neck”.
The neck consistently bent forward, placing strain on the spine and fucking up natural human posture. Over time, it can lead to chronic pain, muscle spasms, and even long-term damage to the cervical spine.
The silent epidemic of TikTok neck takes over the world.
You are blind if you don’t see.
Combat it before it combats you, mind your posture, take regular breaks from the phone (not replacing with another screen), train your neck and shoulders.
If you don’t know how to find your ideal posture, I have an easy tip for you:
Take the deepest breath you can and hold this position.
Your body automatically gets into the correct posture until you let the strain go.
Not only your neck but also your core and shoulders get in place. Doesn’t it feel great? ;)
3. Disconnection from Real Life
Sure, it brings such an alluring opportunity to escape the real world's problems.
Have you noticed the unusual appeal of your gadgets in times of trouble, when life plays a bad joke on you and with nowhere to hide doomscrolling until your brain rots looks like a superior solution.
While smartphones connect us to a virtual realm, their excessive use can lead to a disconnection from the present moment and the people around us.
This shit is definitely one of the reasons of the worldwide loneliness epidemic. What else, besides loneliness, you gonna feel after raising your head to find you know nobody and nobody knows you?
Even in social situations like work, parties, and family dinners, engaging in constant scrolling, texting, or social media browsing diminishes the quality and fulfillment of face-to-face interactions and, consequently, the quality of human connections.
Nowadays, people do it wherever they go:
It’s not bad behavior.
It’s addiction.
Asking me, how to fight it? Just don’t touch the devil’s thing without any great urge.
4. Eye Strain and Digital Eye Fatigue
Ophthalmologist will become the most popular occupation of the 21st century.
After physiotherapist, of course.
Staring at smartphone screens for prolonged periods can have hideous consequences for our eyes — the blue light emitted by screens has been linked to disruptions in sleep patterns and may contribute to the development of digital eye strain.
To reduce the impact on your eyes, consider using the 20–20–20 rule:
Every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds.
Be kind to your eyes: you always take a rest after work, so why your eyes can't? Consider, they are paid even worse than you.
Perform swift blinking or shut them for a bit to moisturize dry eyeballs. Also check out special eye exercises, which, if done regularly, will maintain eye health and can even improve your eyesight.
5. Increased Stress and Anxiety
Do you also wonder why so many people struggle with never-ending stress and anxiety in such a safe and harmless world, when nothing and no one (almost) is trying to kill you? Shame, the brain doesn’t evolve like technologies do.
The pressure to stay connected to what the hell is happening in the online universe plays a huge part in it by itself, then add to this the annoying notifications, toxic environment of doubtfully truthful information and overall overstimulation.
The neurons in your head go crazy.
Constant interactions with gadgets turn out to be pretty devastating activities for the mental conditions of its users.
6. Digital Addiction
A healthy lifestyle in trends and the world without addictions is flourishing before our own eyes.
What are you saying? Thousands die from overdose every month?
Times change — humans don’t.
Alcohol, nicotine, and drugs actually or just visually shrank in size and while people celebrating victory over addictions, the worst of all sneaked unnoticed.
The same stupid nonsense that wars aren’t possible in the 21st century.
I wish someone thought of comparing who would be healthier — a person, who smoked, drank and fucked like swine or a person who spent multiple hours a day in front of a screen. (However, both should be as miserable)
Smartphone overuse can escalate into a form of digital addiction, and often ends up this way, with individuals compulsively checking devices in a failed attempt to get a new, more satisfying, high.
A trick to lower addiction to smartphones lies in dealing with the most addictive apps. You don’t turn on your phone dozens of times a day to check a calendar, do you? Download the app blocking application.
Pawn the path to digital redemption!
7. Inability to Focus and Reduced Productivity
Curious situation.
Not being able to spot focus inability, because of focus inability.
The constant bombardment from the damned screen, tearing your attention apart in thousands of directions simultaneously.
The phenomenon of “constant partial attention” makes a person unable to focus and collect information about one particular thing, instead spreading focus between a few simultaneously, as a result remembering none of it.
Do you even know, how concert performers nowadays try to make smartphone kids involved and focused during performances?
Wild shit)
Productivity — drops, quality of work — drops, enjoyment from interpersonal relationships — drops, bed performance — oops... You don't possess such a number of fingers to count in how many ways ruined focus and productivity spoil all areas of human life.
Just get some rest from the phone. Or throw it out of the window.
You choose. Only time can set your focus and productivity back in order.
We’re Not Done Here Yet
By appreciating the goods advanced technologies bring into our lives, don’t forget to oppose the dangerous influence these contagious things have personally on us and all the good people around.
Don’t let smartphones ruin your existence.
I know… I know… temptation to give in feels overwhelming at times.
I BELIEVE IN YOU :)
Get out of your head, out your phone and right back into the pain and suffering of everyday life, to where we all belong.
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