Text | Qi shi
Recently, some media have launched a discussion on the topic of "no mobile phone phobia" on social platforms, which has aroused widespread concern.
"Cell phone phobia" is reported to refer to the anxiety or pain that some people feel when they don't have a cell phone around. Experts say that the main symptoms are: anxiety, restlessness, nervousness, irritability, general malaise, and some people even have a sense of emptiness because they do not carry mobile phones, lack of power or do not have a good network signal. This has hit the hearts of many senior netizens, and I believe that many people have such experiences in real life.
We often say that the medium is an extension of the person. As the most common and figurative media tool at present, mobile phones are undoubtedly changing people's habits invisibly, gradually becoming a part of "people" and occupying people's daily lives. It can be said that our current life has been completely changed by mobile phones, it is airtight, tightly paced, forming a completely different from the past, a new social landscape, which is a consensus brought by technological change for people.
It is undeniable that technological change has brought new development opportunities to the entire society and promoted great changes in social form. Specifically, the popularity of smartphones also provides the general public with the conditions to connect anytime, anywhere. But at the same time, for individuals, with the high frequency and fragmentation of mobile phone use, many people are actually caught in the ocean of information brought about by technological change.
A relatively common phenomenon is that at present, people's communication and communication with the world is increasingly taking place in the virtual world, rather than relying on specific realities. For example, young people like to communicate in game scenes, communicate in the bullet screen of online movies, and exchange views on various social platforms.
People use this as a channel for obtaining information, so many people seem to actively cut off contact with the outside world after putting down their mobile phones. This kind of addiction and secondary anxiety caused by information oversatuation has attracted widespread attention.
On the practical level, on the one hand, people are anxious that in the era of the Internet of Everything, a little away from the Internet may be abandoned by new things, which is not only manifested in the daily communication between people, but also in the work closely related to the survival of individuals.
For example, various instant messaging software makes the time line between bosses and employees blurred. Sometimes, the boss may brush the social platform in the middle of the night, see a "plan" that he thinks is good, and will forward it to the employee, if the employee does not reply in time, it may bring some other costs. Therefore, the anxiety of survival can prompt them to suffer from "cell phone phobia".
On the other hand, the flooding and overload of information in mobile phones is also constantly breaking through people's physical and psychological boundaries. In order to cope with overloaded information, users need to pay more time and cost to pay attention, so the subconscious pressure will increase. Studies have shown that a large number of information is accepted and processed in a short period of time, which will cause inhibition of cerebral cortex activity, and then may suffer from information anxiety disorder, anti-information defect syndrome and other diseases. In a similar situation for a long time, if you put down the phone, the sudden panic will be more serious. The specific manifestations are irregular time planning and inability to straighten out leisure time.
In addition, the personalized recommendation mechanism based on user experience and preferences makes the content recommended by platform enterprises more attractive to users' attention in a short period of time. Although the content that spreads on mobile social networks is mostly empty, shallow, tedious and repetitive from a more professional perspective, for the general public, the entertainment content brought by mobile phones is better than complex work. Therefore, people are willing to immerse themselves in mobile phones because, relative to reality, the content in mobile phones can at least bring pleasure at the sensory level, which is better than directly facing work, which also creates a kind of "inseparable from mobile phones" appearance.
In fact, technological innovation often interacts with the operating mechanisms of human society. The emergence of mobile phones is the result of human beings using technology to change media communication tools, but the change of mobile phones to human habits is undoubtedly a kind of figurative manifestation of technology changing people.
In the final analysis, such phenomena are the "sequelae" brought about by the process of technological progress, and the factors behind them have become problems that cannot be ignored in modern society. However, in response to such problems, it may be difficult to get rid of them in a short period of time, and what people can do is more than to appeal and guide.
Text: Qi shi
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Column moderator: Zhang Yongqun
Editor-in-charge: Wang Yuanfang
Editor: Zhang Xueyu Sun Dai