US EditionOne month phone-free: Young Americans try digital detox
- A group of young adults in Washington, DC, swapped their smartphones for basic flip phones for a one-month digital detox to escape social media's harmful effects.
- Participant Jay West noted experiencing boredom during the detox but learned to accept it.
- Psychology researcher Kostadin Kushlev stated that going smartphone-free for weeks can improve well-being and attention.
- Organizer Josh Morin emphasized the need for an enriching social life to successfully disconnect.
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In Washington, about 30 young people traded their smartphone for a tap phone for a month. ...
Young Americans are experimenting with the galleys and joys of digital fasting.
Getting around without Google Maps. Don't look at Instagram any more while waiting for the bus. Unplug his headphones, hear the birds sing. For a month in Washington, about thirty young Americans traded their smartphone for a basic tap phone and told their galleys and their joy of disconnecting.
This disconnected month has positive effects in the long run, but a rewarding social life is needed to "break" the dynamics of addiction, according to one of the programme's facilitators.
About 30 young Americans told about their experience after they gave up smart phones for a month and used outdated, classic devices with keypads. They gave up using Google Maps to travel to the city, no longer entered Instagram while waiting for the bus and gave up...
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