Media
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Are you ready for a world in which scrolling your phone in public spaces is banned?
Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public, banning adults and children from scrolling on their devices while walking down the street, while sitting with others on a park bench, while in shops, cafes or eating Read more
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Replacing old habits
Awareness has played a significant role in my on-and-off relationship with social media. So, if you’ve been reading some of my blog posts, like this one, and they resonate with you, you must be yearning for some habit changes like I do. So how to change one habit to another? The journal article Psychology of Habit (2016) shows that Read more
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I am no longer bound
Since I decided to stop checking Facebook every morning by disabling the app from my Android phone, which means that the icon isn’t visible in the app list anymore, I started looking for a substitute habit right after waking up. And I found the comfort of being connected to the outside world again—at least concerning Read more
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Cutting the wires
The daily loud whispers of “Check me out with what’s new and never miss out” were becoming too much to bear. I know they will end up with animal videos again like they always do. The hours I spend scrolling for random content just eat away at my time and prevent me from doing work I value Read more
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The gift of getting quiet
When was the last time you gave thoughts some space to enter your mind? I don’t know about you, but most of the time, I make sure that there is music playing in the background at home and that my headphones are ready and fully charged when I go out to listen to podcasts while Read more
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Algorithm-driven social media content
With just a tap on an icon, you can access the online public square without leaving your bed in the morning and be informed where people are or what they’ve been up to yesterday. Want to rant about that neighbor or that relative? You can now conveniently do that online without screaming at them live Read more
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Information parity and divisive misinformation
If both of us have access to the internet, it means that we both have access to a lot of information, and no one has an unfair advantage over the other. We can abide by the same rules and dance to the same tune. But then, whatever we consume from the internet could also sway Read more
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