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I did a week without my phone and it was astonishing how uncomfortable I was with… doing nothing. The act of just waiting for anything made me instinctively rea

I did a week without my phone and it was astonishing how uncomfortable I was with… doing nothing. The act of just waiting for anything made me instinctively reach for the phone and when it wasn’t there… it was uncomfortable to not get that hit. Even after a week, it hadn’t gone away. Addicted is right. #sentfrommyiphone

Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 2y ago
This describes craving, which is only one of the addiction criteria
dakiol 2y ago
Was that feeling happening constantly at any time or only during the time you didn’t have anything else to do? I do plenty of physical exercise during the day, and I don’t like to take with me the phone (because it’s big). When I go out for a walk I don’t take my phone with me (I walk around 40 min/day). When I read I don’t have my phone near me. Now, when I have done all the things I wanted to do during the day and it’s time to sit on the sofa, yep, I take my phone and I would get bored without it I think.
- conception 2y ago
  Mainly when unoccupied, yeah. Brain didn't like not having something engaging with it.
rightbyte 2y ago
Ye. I mean it is bad for us as individuals and collective to constantly have an internet connected computer available. I don't know what we should do about it though. Like any cure would be to authoritarian for my taste. Hope for culture change? Like how fronting the TV as the center of your family life at home is not hip anymore.
- MichaelZuo 2y ago
  Why should there be something plausible to “do about it”? That doesn’t seem like the default for most things in the universe.
  - rightbyte 2y ago
    I am proposing that we should hope that we just sort it out without doing anything. I think that is like claiming that there is not some nice fix. I for example am burned out on scrolling feeds since I consumed way too much memes on like some meme rating feed site I don't even remember the name of, before feeds was a thing. So maybe people might just cut down on it by them self?
    - MichaelZuo 2y ago
      Is that a question for me, or for yourself?
      - rightbyte 2y ago
        It is an open question.
- joquarky 2y ago
  What happens when nearly everyone is suddenly addicted to something? I remember much talk of "internet addiction" in the late 1990s, but rarely hear much of it anymore
  - rightbyte 2y ago
    I guess thise articles dissappeared when those people did not rack up huge telephone bills. You'd have to have some non abstract damage to write simple articles. Otherwise the journalist need to do a deep dive in the victim's life to explain the damage.
zingababba 2y ago
I did a month, it was actually surprisingly easily. The worst part was actually pissing off a bunch of people that couldn't reach me easily any longer.
Ancapistani 2y ago
Before smartphones, I carried a book wherever I went for just this reason. I was bullied mercilessly for it, but didn’t care - that’s preferable to being bored.
- kamaal 2y ago
  >>I carried a book wherever I went for just this reason. This was considered a respectable way of telling people to not disturb you only a while back.

Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 2y ago

This describes craving, which is only one of the addiction criteria

dakiol 2y ago

Was that feeling happening constantly at any time or only during the time you didn’t have anything else to do? I do plenty of physical exercise during the day, and I don’t like to take with me the phone (because it’s big). When I go out for a walk I don’t take my phone with me (I walk around 40 min/day). When I read I don’t have my phone near me. Now, when I have done all the things I wanted to do during the day and it’s time to sit on the sofa, yep, I take my phone and I would get bored without it I think.

conception 2y ago
Mainly when unoccupied, yeah. Brain didn't like not having something engaging with it.

rightbyte 2y ago

Ye. I mean it is bad for us as individuals and collective to constantly have an internet connected computer available. I don't know what we should do about it though. Like any cure would be to authoritarian for my taste. Hope for culture change? Like how fronting the TV as the center of your family life at home is not hip anymore.

MichaelZuo 2y ago
Why should there be something plausible to “do about it”? That doesn’t seem like the default for most things in the universe.
- rightbyte 2y ago
  I am proposing that we should hope that we just sort it out without doing anything. I think that is like claiming that there is not some nice fix. I for example am burned out on scrolling feeds since I consumed way too much memes on like some meme rating feed site I don't even remember the name of, before feeds was a thing. So maybe people might just cut down on it by them self?
  - MichaelZuo 2y ago
    Is that a question for me, or for yourself?
    - rightbyte 2y ago
      It is an open question.
joquarky 2y ago
What happens when nearly everyone is suddenly addicted to something? I remember much talk of "internet addiction" in the late 1990s, but rarely hear much of it anymore
- rightbyte 2y ago
  I guess thise articles dissappeared when those people did not rack up huge telephone bills. You'd have to have some non abstract damage to write simple articles. Otherwise the journalist need to do a deep dive in the victim's life to explain the damage.

zingababba 2y ago

I did a month, it was actually surprisingly easily. The worst part was actually pissing off a bunch of people that couldn't reach me easily any longer.

Ancapistani 2y ago

Before smartphones, I carried a book wherever I went for just this reason. I was bullied mercilessly for it, but didn’t care - that’s preferable to being bored.

kamaal 2y ago
>>I carried a book wherever I went for just this reason. This was considered a respectable way of telling people to not disturb you only a while back.