How Our Relationships With Our Phones Affect Us

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A report from Common Sense Media found that teens get over 230 of these distracting notifications each day. Some get over four thousand. But teens aren't the only ones inundated.

According to market research company Insider Intelligence, American adults spend four and a half hours a day on their phones. Smartphones and social media apps are lauded by their industries for their addictive design.

Now, lawmakers in Utah, New Jersey, and North Carolina are taking action to protect kids from the reach of social media.

We discuss how our phones' constant presence affects us and what we can do to claim back our focus.

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0:00.0	Okay, so you're working on a task.
0:10.9	Maybe you're a cooking dinner, you're trying to focus on some work, you maybe even reading
0:15.4	a book, and then...
0:24.7	Do you pick up your phone to check what it's about?
0:27.2	Yeah, you probably do.
0:28.6	And then one thing leads to another, and suddenly you've lost 30 minutes scrolling through
0:33.2	Instagram.
0:34.2	A report from Common Sense Media found that teens get over 230 of these distracting notifications
0:40.5	each day, and some get over 4,500.
0:43.7	But kids aren't the only ones inundated.
0:46.3	According to Market Research Company Insider Intelligence, American adults spend around
0:50.9	four and a half hours daily on their phones.
0:54.3	Smart phones and social media apps have been criticized for their addictive design, just
0:58.4	this year, lawmakers in Utah, New Jersey, and North Carolina have taken action to protect
1:03.2	kids from the reach of social media apps.
1:05.5	Today, we're taking a look at how we use our phones.
1:09.2	How are we affected by the constant presence of our phones, and what can we do to claim
1:13.5	back our focus?
1:14.9	I'm Jen White.
1:15.9	You're listening to the OneA podcast where we get to the heart of the story.
1:19.1	We've got a lot to get into.
1:20.7	Stay with us.
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