The whole world is captured by dark UX. The pandemic situation forced people to stay home glued to the screens and rewired their brains to accept more intrusiv

The whole world is captured by dark UX. The pandemic situation forced people to stay home glued to the screens and rewired their brains to accept more intrusive media consumption. We don't know the negative effects of this process yet. I have lost communication with a lot of people, the information shock has made them completely strange to me. On a personal level, I got lucky. Due to my interest in photography, in early 2015 I developed the habit to leave my phone home and go for a walk only with a camera in my hand. It felt refreshing. The next step for me was to delete all unnecessary apps from my phone and stop the usage of texting apps. If I wanted to communicate with someone - I called. Somewhere in 2017, I realized that my brain needs a constant hit of fresh information and I have to combat this urge. Now I have offline data collection of carefully curated books, videos, and music. I have limited my "news" consumption to 20 minutes a day through RSS feeds, Twitter, and Hackernews are limited to 15 minutes a day. Internet is used only for work.