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#WikiHow - How to Beat an Addiction to Cell Phones: Tips to Get Off Your Phone

What to do if you think you have a phone addiction

Co-authored by Tiffany Douglass, MA and Aly Rusciano
Last Updated: March 19, 2025

"How do you stop being addicted to your phone?

- Schedule when and how long you can use your phone.
- Turn off notifications for apps and social media.
- Put your phone somewhere you can’t access it.
- Replace phone habits with new hobbies or constructive activities.
- Ask your loved ones for support to keep you accountable."

Learn more:
https://www.wikihow.com/Beat-an-Addiction-to-Cell-Phones

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#Technology for #Luddites
What Digital Does to Our Brains
April 30, 2015 by kris de decker

via #NoTechMagazine

Illustration by Luis Quiles

"It turns out that digital devices and software are finely tuned to train us to pay attention to them, no matter what else we should be doing. The mechanism, borne out by recent neuroscience studies, is something like this:

- New information creates a rush of dopamine to the brain, a neurotransmitter that makes you feel good.
- The promise of new information compels your brain to seek out that dopamine rush.

"With fMRIs, you can see the brain’s pleasure centres light up with activity when new emails arrive.

"So, every new email you get gives you a little flood of dopamine. Every little flood of dopamine reinforces your brain’s memory that checking email gives a flood of dopamine. And our brains are programmed to seek out things that will give us little floods of dopamine. Further, these patterns of behaviour start creating neural pathways, so that they become unconscious habits: Work on something important, brain itch, check email, dopamine, refresh, dopamine, check Twitter, dopamine, back to work. Over and over, and each time the habit becomes more ingrained in the actual structures of our brains.”

https://www.notechmagazine.com/2015/04/what-digital-does-to-our-brains.html

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The teen '#Luddites' rethinking how they use tech ahead of #Australia's under 16's #SocialMediaBan

By Lucia Stein and Fiona Pepper for Brain Rot

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/luddites-phone-free-australia-teen-social-media-ban/105343034

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Why teens are giving up their #smartphones and joining the '#LudditeClub'

Avery Hartmans, October 2022

"Since giving up her smartphone, Shub says she has more space to think creatively, more time to read, and better concentration. She and many of her friends have given up Instagram and they prefer phone calls over texting.

"'If I have one overarching message for my fellow teenagers, it's this: Spend time getting to know yourself and exploring the world around you,' Shub writes. 'It's so much more fulfilling — and so much more real — than the one inside your expensive little box.'"

Original article:
https://www.businessinsider.com/teens-ditching-smartphones-social-media-to-become-luddites-2022-10

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jOSNU

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