Are You Smartphone Addicted?

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden, Kids & Family

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

There's plenty of distressing research into what smartphones are doing to adults' attention spans, focus, and memory. And on child/teen development? Emerging research is even more alarming. We are change makers, and change making means making difficult decisions, having difficult conversations, and going against the grain. On today's show: Why we need to (yet again!) rethink our approach to technology and delay the age at which we give our children access to smartphones. Here's a preview: [8:30] 57% of Americans report being "addicted" to their smartphones. Are you one of them? [11:30] Smartphone addiction isn't your fault! Here's exactly how social media keeps your attention so they make more $$ [17:30] How to declutter your cell phone like a boss [26:00] What recent research says with regard to the impacts of smartphones on children's/teens' wellness [37:00] 5 reasons parents say they're pulled to give their child a smartphone, plus alternative solutions! [43:00] Individual actions impact the collective. How to make delaying the smartphone a staple in your community Resources mentioned: The Smart Phone Compulsion Test Wait Until 8th How To Break Up With Your Phone (by Catherine Price) The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (by Jonathan Haidt) Investigation: How TikTok's Algorithm Figures Out Your Deepest Desires (via The Wall Street Journal) Have Smart Phones Destroyed A Generation? (via The Atlantic) This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! [email protected].

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1:05.0	Well, hello, my friends and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 473 of sustainable minimalist.
1:12.0	This is a listener supported show about intentional
1:15.6	and eco-friendly minimalist living. On today's show we're discussing the tension between
1:21.3	loving our phones and hating the way they may the to their phones, it is increasing and it's increasing rapidly.
1:34.2	I was just in New York City last weekend.
1:36.9	Very busy place, very congested place, right?
1:39.7	Lots of people.
1:40.9	And guess what? As I looked around I noticed that the vast majority of people,
1:46.8	myself included, okay, myself included, I'm no saint with regard to the cell phone, but the vast majority of people who are walking on the streets, crossing the streets on the subway in restaurants at the Central Park Zoo.
2:02.0	The majority of people were glued to their smartphones.
2:08.1	In my view, smartphones are in many ways just yet another product that was pushed through and put onto the market
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