My life with your smartphone and without

Let's make an experiment.

Take your smart phone in your hand and turn it off. Completely. No, no sleep, no flight mode and full off.

Now put it on the table and listen to yourself. You feel this sensation of emptiness, anxiety, deprivation of something important? The feeling of abandonment?

Do not worry, I'll tell you what happens to you and what to do.

I know a good judge, I was also a mobile addict. Each notification made me grab for the smartphone, its screen is operated on me just hypnotic. Once at a party, at a party or on the road, I was always looking to recharge your gadget. So that the discharge of a smartphone - it's scary. A drug addict, I'm telling you.

And I remember that moment, which was the key. One day after the next campaign, I found his phone photos stunning sunsets. But, my God, I do not remember it! That is, I was so carried away in order to capture the beauty of the camera, which is not even dedicated a minute of his quiet contemplation. This sunset was on my smart phone card, but not in my head!

And then I realized that I need to change something.

A little background. You know that part of my work is related to the testing and writing reviews of mobile applications. Yes, on my gadget installed a lot of different programs: helpful, funny, educational, game. I have no doubt of the value and the bright future of mobile devices. However, what is gradually becoming mobile gadgets in our lives, I do not like. They fill the increasing space around us, gradually displacing everything else on the periphery of our consciousness. Well, about how to look at a beautiful sunset over the smartphone camera.

The depth of the fall

As we now communicate

Have you ever noticed how difficult it was at the meeting, even with the interesting and important people focus specifically on communication with them. Yes, we nod, even something responsible, but our thoughts very quickly begin to wander around quite another.

I wonder how many letters have already accumulated? We need to look - I have already answered in the chat? How many likes to pick up my last shot?

And here it goes quite a bit of time, and the smartphone is in your hands. And your friend, with whom you want to talk, too. Wait, what are we gathered here?

I want this. Right now

We live in an amazing time. Those things, which recently demanded considerable effort today requires a simple call. We do not need to write letters, adhesive stamps and go to the post office. No need to go out and buy a newspaper. Yes, we even food can now order directly to your home!

All you need - this is a smartphone and one of the thousands of useful programs. No effort, no movement. Hey, who's there talking about effeminacy and maladjustment?

Disputes and own opinions

More recently, it was possible to spend two hours in the debate, as the craters on the far side of the Moon and the transistors in processors. Today you get the smartphone, ask the Google, bingo! - the dispute is over.

Okay, accurate answers and information, of course, important. But in discussing something important is not only the result, the process makes learn to express their ideas, defend opinions, to seek evidence to refute the arguments of the opponent. Forget about it. Google said the - point.

On the clock

These are our parents could have a clear timetable for work and leisure. The end of the working day - "Goodbye, boss. Till tomorrow!".

Now you are constantly connected and at any time, you can pull the string. "The urgent task... cool idea... you just think about it, you still have a rest" - you have met with such? Today, the line between work time and personal swiftly erased, and smart phones constantly keep us on the hook new notifications.

I'm bored. entertain me

Availability in my pocket all entertainment content that produced the previous mankind for hundreds of years, plays a dirty trick on us. One move, and on the screen Angry Birds destroy the pigs, begins a steep Hollywood blockbuster or the music. Our brain constantly receives new batch of entertainment and enjoyment, while gradually totally unaccustomed to hold himself. And if you for some reason do not have access to your electronic gadget, then immediately there is a feeling of boredom and helplessness. Soon it will be possible to come up with a new torture - the content in an empty room with disabled smartphone. Not all will survive.

And what to do now?

The most important thing - to realize that there is a problem. And it is not easy.

I made a promise to myself and my friends, I'll start to live a more fulfilling life. I will not let this small piece of glass, metal and plastic stand in the way of this. I made a few small steps that really changed me. First of all, I began to wonder how, why and when I use my smartphone. I became very careful to select only those cases where it is indispensable. And I left only the applications that really need me.

Here is a description of the measures that may be useful to you on the way to the liberation of your life on the phone tyranny.

purification

1. Keep it in your pants

   This is a very important rule, from which everything begins. Just try to keep your phone always remained where it supposed to be - in your pocket or bag. Have nothing to do on your desktop, on the bar or still that, in your bed. If you feel a desire to get it and there is something to check, then hit himself on his hands. You can negotiate with your family and friends that whenever they will surprise you with a mobile, you will find a small fine or reprimand. Itching gradually take place, and you will become a normal person again.

2. The brain is primarily a smartphone after

   Trying to remember who sings this catchy song? You are trying to calculate how much is this packaging at a discount? Do you want to navigate in unfamiliar terrain? Try in all such cases, first use your head and do not apply directly for help to his electronic assistant. Does not work? But no one said it would be easy!

3. Remove and hide

   

   On my smartphone hundreds of programs have been installed. Program for any occasion. Most of them, in the best case, launched a couple of times. When I had nagging filtering software, it turned out that the really necessary programs only a few pieces. Yes, you do not need four music player, three different chat and two dozen toys. So calm down, breathe out and delete, delete, delete. And what's left - hiding in a folder, so as not to catch the eye.

4. no notifications

   If your wife does not give birth at the moment or you do not expect a letter of receipt of the Nobel Prize to you, turn off all notifications. Make him shut up and even my vibrator buzzing decline. Yes, you will not see instantly their Huskies, check out the latest funny video, or some letters, but you no one will distract from the life, work and love. And when you choose a time, and will be able to see for yourself what you need. It is time to move from unceremonious shower information on your head to the careful it upon your request consumption.

5. Begin to walk

   Never call a taxi, delivery of food and all that, if in order to achieve the result you need to walk at least a kilometer. If the weather allows it, you can and should walk. Just go to the store or to the park (10 bonus points if you get to your destination without shooting. 20 points if you can go without music. Another 50 points if you do not use Google Maps for the route).

6. Buy watches

   I often catch myself on the fact that the phone is in my hands, just to see the time. And then you see the new message icon and decide quickly check it out. Quick look in the social sphere. And then it turns out that you have forgotten that just wanted to know the time.

   Buy clock. This will save you from more than one contact with the mobile.

7. No phone in the bathroom and the bedroom

   You never pay attention to how you are going to be late in the toilet, when you have a smartphone in their hands? But for this time, you can prepare an expedition to the moon! Instead, you again and again flip through pages sotsialok and funny anecdotes. About the bedroom, I do not say. Scientifically proven fact that the contemplation of the bright screen mobile gadget before sleep adversely affects sleep. In addition, the look from the outside, look how stupid the two love each other a person lying under a blanket and resting his gaze in every smartphone.

Big opportunities require meaningfulness

Today in our pocket are devices, computing capabilities that exceed those computers used in the NASA lunar program. And there are thousands of programs and services, ready to come to your aid in any situation. That's only necessary to accept this gift consciously and slowly, because the information boom is developing much faster than the human brain can adapt to change. As we would not be in the position of the natives, who, having bought in the bright beads and firewater, did not notice how lost a whole world.

Good luck with your mobile detoxification! And share with us his thoughts on the matter.