From: The New York Times
How to Break Free From Your Phone
August 5, 2025
There’s that nagging voice again: “Put the phone away. No, really this time.” But we don’t; 84 percent of Americans say that they are online either several times a day or “almost constantly.”
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Delete the ‘slot machine’ apps
Social media and video games apps are designed to hook you. Instead of looking at them on your phone, use a computer instead — one that you don’t carry around with you. Your phone should become like a Swiss Army knife, full of tools that you pull out when you need to get something done.
Social psychologist at the Stern School of Business at New York University and author of “The Anxious Generation”
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