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How to Fight Phone Addiction?

2 points| Heavywater | 2 years ago

I'm using android phone I'm trying to fight phone addiction but I deleted all social media apps. But I still find other ways to kill time on it. I'm thinking the only way to fight is to use dumb phone but then I would need to get alternatives to navigation apps for car (that would be any navigation device) digital signature is made using application on my phone (I can get hardware signature devices to use it only on pc) or maybe there is other ways to limit my phone usage like getting a time lock box?

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gregjor|2 years ago

Asked and discussed here hundreds of times.

Leave the phone turned off when you don’t need it.

Use a dumb phone.

Quit social media, delete the apps.

Somehow we all got by without smartphones for most of our history. I got through 40 years without one. It’s only essential you let it.

theGeatZhopa|2 years ago

Why do you even wanna get rid of it? It's only the social media and endlessly scrolling news sites. Thats needs to be avoided.

Playing games on the phone.. too. I just have Tetris on my mobile.

So it's just impulse control on my side.

CTOSian|2 years ago

exactly as you wrote, social crap and news sites are the main issue, OP may quit from all of them - use RSS for the news , try to check from time to time, or better during the end of te day.

DamonHD|2 years ago

Is it the phone that is the problem, or more generally impulse control etc? If the former, 'blaming' and fixating on the phone may be avoiding whatever changes are really needed, elsewhere.

IANAP...