At present, mobile phone functions are constantly enriched, so that diversified personalized needs can be "solved by hand", but it is also concerned because of the Internet addiction of smart phones. The reporter's interview found that the business of quitting smartphone Internet addiction is becoming increasingly prosperous, and various methods of "quitting the internet" and "quitting mobile phones" are emerging in an endless stream. What is the utility of popular "ring net" products? How to quit "phone dependence"? A Xinhua reporter launched an investigation into this.
"'Quit network' mobile phone" has many tricks
- Equipment downgrade method. Searching for keywords such as "quitting mobile phones" on the e-commerce platform, the first thing that catches your eye is a large number of mobile phone device products. The key words of the product are displayed as "special mobile phone for students to quit the network", "anti-addiction mobile phone", "college entrance examination preparation mobile phone", etc., and the price ranges from tens of yuan to hundreds of yuan.
Screenshot of the "Student Ring Network Mobile Phone" product web page sold on the second-hand trading platform.
In fact, most of these mobile phones are old mobile phones or "elderly machines", mainly button machines. Some only have telephone and SMS functions; some can install software such as WeChat and Alipay for daily use, and cannot install large games.
- Physical isolation method. Products that physically isolate mobile phones from users are also selling well online. This type of product is named "mobile phone timing box" or "mobile phone prison", the appearance of a mobile phone storage box, through the installation of timing electronic locks, to prevent users from frequent contact with mobile phones. Many products have sold tens of thousands of pieces on e-commerce platforms.
Screenshot of the "mobile phone timing box" product promotion page sold on the e-commerce platform.
- Software intervention. The reporter found that there are many time management apps that help users "quit their mobile phones" in the app store.
In the "Forest Focus on the Forest" app, whenever the user wants to concentrate on work, he can plant a tree in the software, and if he can't help playing with his mobile phone during the period, the tree will "die". In the "Do not do mobile phone control" app, if the user uses the mobile phone timeout, the mobile phone will automatically enter a period of lock-up period.
The effect of the "net-quitting" product is not obvious
On social networks, there are many mutual aid groups about "quitting the internet" and "quitting mobile phones". Group members send daily screenshots of mobile phone usage times to the group for supervision by other group members. There are also many people who share their experience in using the "quit mobile phone" product.
Some users said that such products do help them stay away from smartphones, but many users say that they are "heavily dependent" and they can always think of workarounds.
A user told reporters that he bought a quit machine and eventually returned the phone to the merchant because of trouble.
"I bought an old mobile phone, in addition to calling, texting, using it is simply torture, such as spam text messages can not be filtered, harassing calls can not be intercepted, the biggest pain is that there is no way to scan the code to pay." He said.
In the group, there are also users who launch a Q&A call for "whether the timed mobile phone lock is useful". More than 73% of the more than 60 users voted for the "don't buy, chicken ribs" option.
Addiction requires scientific intervention
Experts said that some people's addiction to mobile phones is not caused by the addiction caused by the mobile phone itself, but the addiction to online games, short videos, massive information and other content on the mobile phone.
Zhou Xuhui, director of the Department of Alcohol Addiction and Internet Addiction of Hunan Provincial Addiction Medicine Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Center and Hunan Brain Hospital, told reporters that "quit mobile phone" products may reduce the time ordinary people use mobile phones and reduce the risk of addiction. But for addicts, the "quit net" product is more like an itch in the boot and cannot play a therapeutic role.
"The definition of addictive behavior needs to meet a number of criteria, such as craving, behavior out of control, tolerance, withdrawal symptoms and other symptoms. At the same time, it is also necessary to consider the functional damage caused by it, such as the severity criteria that affect social, academic, life, marriage, economics, etc., the duration of the disease, and the exclusion criteria. She said.
Du Jiang, director of the Department of Substance Addiction at the Shanghai Mental Health Center, said: "Addiction is sometimes a symptom of other mental illnesses, such as interpersonal skills or bipolar disorders, and patients need to go to professional medical institutions. ”
Du Jiang believes that if individuals have not yet reached the standard of addiction, they can rely on the self-regulation and control of individuals to solve the problem of mobile phone addiction. (Reporter Lan Tianming)