Wen | Wu Yaqi
At one or two o'clock in the morning, although "I don't know what I'm doing", my fingers still can't stop sliding on the phone, lost in various pushes and instant emotions, and finally sleep exhausted. Are you familiar with this scene?
When this scenario repeats, many people begin to realize that they are addicted to mobile phones, and if they want to change, they must first "quit" mobile phones. On one social platform, the "Away from Screen Project" group, founded in 2020 and joined by more than 30,000 people, advocates a degree of away from electronic screens and embracing the real world. The "anti-technology dependence" group, which was established a year later, also has more than 20,000 members. Both groups advocate for some degree of withdrawal from cell phones. But "quitting" the phone doesn't seem so easy.
It is undeniable that the involvement of mobile phones in people's lives is strong and multi-faceted. From a technical point of view alone, in order to ensure the number of users and activity, mobile app developers will use technical means to increase people's frequency of use as much as possible, making them more dependent, such as red dots and numbers of unread message prompts, which are also guiding users to continue to click and deepen.
Moreover, people's daily communication, travel, shopping and other necessities of life have long been inseparable from mobile phones, and even in work exchanges and learning punch cards, the status of mobile phones cannot be shaken. When the boundaries between work, study and life are gradually blurred, it is more like mobile phones build up life than people use mobile phones. The result could be that only sleep in a day can get people away from their phones for a few hours.
But this kind of immersive "getting along" with mobile phones may have exceeded the load of some people's bodies and minds. Recently, a survey of 1532 young people surveyed showed that 84.8% of the young people surveyed had the habit of brushing their mobile phones before going to bed, only 12.5% of the young people surveyed would be controlled within 20 minutes, even if they felt sleepy, 84.1% of them would continue to brush their mobile phones; 69.5% of the young people surveyed said that brushing mobile phones before going to bed would increase the difficulty of falling asleep. It seems that when it comes to negative effects, people can temporarily part with mobile phones to sleep has borne the brunt, and the damage caused by sleep problems to health needless to say.
Moreover, the massive amount of information pouring in from mobile phones is also impacting people's concentration. The fourth World Internet Conference has data disclosure, each person will look at their mobile phone every 6.5 minutes, 150 times a day. Every time you look down and look up at the screen, you are cutting people's energy, making attention fragmented, and people's ability to focus on thinking and self-examination will also be consumed.
Undoubtedly, mobile phones can provide people with a colorful world. But staying healthy and focused and having real fun is something that phones can't bring us. As described in the "Far from the Screen Plan" group introduction, "Why flowers are fragrant, not because of the screen", "Why snail powder is smelly, not because of the screen", "Why the curvature of the cervical spine is straightened is probably because of the screen"... No matter how wonderful the virtual landscape is, people will eventually need to return to reality.
Today we live in the era of the Internet and social media, the media fills the whole life, it is bound to continue to evolve, and the mobile phone is only a tool in the media, and even become history. How to adapt to and coexist with the medium, how to balance the virtual world and real life, may require people to think and learn from the current mobile phone between picking up and putting down.
There is no doubt that you are reading this article now and you are looking at your phone. But are you ready to put down your phone, go to sleep, and meet tomorrow?
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Text: Wu Yaqi
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Recitation: Wang Qian
Editor-in-charge: Wang Zimo
Editor: Wang Yuanfang, Wu Yaqi