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The addictive substance is the network,not the phone. Nobody gets addicted to any phone disconnected from the internet. OTOH, as you experienced it's easy to sp
by em500 1y ago
The addictive substance is the network,not the phone. Nobody gets addicted to any phone disconnected from the internet. OTOH, as you experienced it's easy to spend just as much time on the laptop or desktop when that has a persistent internet connection.
- lrvick 1y agoFirst thing I did to beat my addiction was keep my phone in airplane mode at all times, and just rely on wifi. After porting my number to a voip provider, i just canceled my cell phone subscription and then the device was no longer a phone, but a wifi tablet. a boring tool i could easily leave at home most of the time until I never took it with me again.
- rkomorn 1y agoI often leave my phone in a different room, and that's pretty effective, too. I've started leaving my phone at home when my wife and I go places together. It's not a problem without solutions, of course. It just takes an amount of discipline that feels unreasonably burdensome to me (as in "ugh why is this so hard?!").
- adolph 1y ago> Nobody gets addicted to any phone disconnected from the internet. I'm not certain about that. I remember spending enough breakout time on my iPod that I had to replace the battery.