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Sexting: A language our children must never learn
Newspaper | Daily Telegraph
Date | 20.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | abbreviations, childhood, sexting, technology-free, threat, youth
Summary | Youths are using abbreviations to keep their parents out of the loop like LMIRL (let's meet in real life). The police have published a list of these to help parents monitor their children. It is sad that children and teenagers have such low self-esteem that they do anything to receive validation from their digital peers. This is not just youth culture or rap music's fault but rather the parent's fault. They are always busy and spend too much time on their smartphone rather than gracing their children with face-to-face attention and smartphone-free activities.
Image Description | Getty image of a teenage boy smirking at a smartphone.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Why I Set My Phone Aside…Sometimes
Newspaper | Huffington Post
Date | 25.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, smartphone, technology-free
Summary | Turning off one's phone at times can drastically improve one's well-being. While smartphones make our lives easier in many ways, they are also a constant source of disruption. Shutting it off for "family/couple/me time" allows one to enjoy the moment rather than be on-guard and available for any and all disruptions life may throw at you via smartphone.
Image Description | Mother (author) and two children at a lake.
Image Tags | female(s)
SMS, tweets, e-mails... Et si on se parlait vraiment?
(SMS, tweets, emails...What if we really talked to each other?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 27.1.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, technology-free
Summary | Since we're always stuck to our screens, have we lost our conversational skills? Nonsense. Many people complain that new technologies have killed "real life" communication, and that emojis are replacing words. The author of the article claims that this trend is not true; nowadays people communicate a lot. Fanny Auger, director of the School of Life Paris, noticed that her class "How to have better conversations" is very popular. The focus is on finding inspiring and stimulating exchanges.
Image Description | Photograph of four young people drinking coffee, laughing, and looking at each other.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
The five lessons I learned from breaking my smartphone
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 24.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | brain, research/study, smartphone, technology-free
Summary | After dropping her smartphone in the sink, the author lives without one for six weeks and discovers that she sleeps better without a smartphone, enjoys being unavailable, few things need to be tended to urgently, that she spends less money, and her memory suffers from having a smartphone. Studies have also confirmed that it is detrimental to one's sleep pattern to sleep next to a smartphone because notifications release dopamin in the brain similarly to a nicotine or recreational drug addiction. She values the time she now has to just not be available for messages from work because we tend to respond to any and all messages as if they were urgent when really they are not. The author reports to spend less money because she can no longer do online shopping on the go without a smartphone. She has also realized how dependent on Google she has become. Neurological studies confirm that our brains are adapting to the constant accessibility of all information by remembering how to find it and googling again if necessary rather than remembering the little snippets of information.
Image Description | Getty image of a woman's hands holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
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