Smartphone Addiction Archives

Why Apple’s Tone-deaf Gambling Ads Make Me Worry

LET’S GET MONEY FROM CHILDREN – Oct. 31, 2022 - This is one reason why I’ve been a bit more comfortable inviting Apple’s products into my home, compared to Google’s, or Amazon’s, or Facebook’s Meta’s, or (to a ... Read More...

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Apple ‘pauses’ gambling ads after placing them next to kids’ games, addiction recovery apps

APPLE’S EVIL GENIUS PLACEMENT – Oct. 27, 2022 - The issue got attention on Twitter early Wednesday when an ad for “Jackpot World” appeared as a suggested app below RecoverMe, an app designed to help users recov... Read More...

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How Ugly Will Life in the Metaverse Become?

HUMANITY’S SWAN SONG? – Oct. 7, 2022 - I choose a world with a four-story comedy club under a starry sky. When I enter, a man in a gray hoodie comes up to me. “Hello,” I say. He stares at me in reply, so... Read More...

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New Book Helps Us Heal our ‘screen-broken brains’

GET THE KINDLE – Oct. 7, 2022 - Kristian’s book is a call to resist the urge to play the amateur demagogue and to educate ourselves to defend against the industry of professional demagogues who populate politic... Read More...

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Put Down Your Devices and Let Your Mind Wander

I THINK THEREFORE I AM THE I AM – Sept. 23, 2022 - The researchers contrasted people’s estimates of how much they would enjoy just sitting and thinking with their actual experiences of doing so in a series of s... Read More...

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Five Ways to Avoid a News Addiction

PLEASE DO NOT UNSUBSCRIBE – Sept. 9, 2020 - It’s normal to want to know what’s going on in the world around us. That said, there is 24/7 access to news on the TV and our phones. Much of the news that is ... Read More...

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Facebook Fined $400 Million for Treatment of Children’s Data

HOW LOW WILL THEY GO? – Sept. 5, 2022 - Policymakers are attempting to better safeguard children’s data generated on social media, online video games and other internet services. California lawmakers last week ... Read More...

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Program Helping Youth to Detox From Technology Addiction

THE 11th COMMANDMENT – Spring 2022 - I’m in my room consistently. “I just want to be left alone on my iPad and it makes me moody and angry for some reason.” Kokoda Youth Foundation CEO Johllene Elson said, “... Read More...

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California Social Media Addiction Bill Drops Parent Lawsuit

WHO’S MINDING THE KIDS? – July 14, 2022 - “They get afraid it will open the floodgates to frivolous claims,” Cunningham said. “They seem to be more comfortable letting this be handled by the public prosecutors... Read More...

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Are Smartphones Making Kids Dumb?

JUST CALL THEM DIGITAL DRUGS – June 29, 2022 - I am a dad of two teenage sons, the only ones in their respective grades without smartphones. Their images — and “cool factor” — take hits because I won’t let the... Read More...

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19-Year-Old TikToker Cooper Noriega Has Died

SO MUCH POTENTIAL – June 13, 2022 - Model and social media influencer Cooper Noriega, who obtained 2.8 million TikTok and 599,000 Instagram followers with a series of posts exploring his day-to-day life in Los ... Read More...

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California Parents Could Sue For Social Media Addiction

GOOD LUCK – May 24, 2022 - Business groups have warned that if the bill passes, social media companies would most likely cease operations for children in California rather than face the legal risk. The propo... Read More...

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TikTok Addiction? Here Are The Signs!

YOU ARE READING THIS ARTICLE – May 6, 2022 - Sometimes the TikTok algorithm shows us things we like, sometimes it doesn’t. Every time we see something we like, our brain produces a little hit of dopamine. This... Read More...

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Worried about your kids’ screen time? Check your own first.

SCROLLING NOT STROLLING – April 29, 2022 - Experts have been studying the effects of smartphones on parents for almost as long as we’ve had phones to distract us from our kids. And the evidence, according to se... Read More...

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The Dark Side of Life Trading Crypto

INSOMNIA, ADDICTION, DEPRESSION, OH MY – April 28, 2022 - Therapists, such as Aaron Sternlicht of New York, say they are seeing an influx of people seeking help for crypto addiction, though treatment is availa... Read More...

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Family Suing Social Media over Son’s Suicide

VIDEO ONLY – EVIL ON THE SMALL SCREEN – April 27, 2022 - “When we found him, his phone was still on-still in his hand”, explained CJ Dawleys’ mother. She continued, “He was so addicted to his phone... Read More...

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Instagram and Snapchat Addiction Allegedly Led to 17-Year-Old Boy’s Suicide

MEDIA OVERDOSE DEATH – April 12, 2022 - The suit, shared with Gizmodo and filed on behalf of Wisconsin teen Christopher J. Dawley by the Social Media Victim Law Center, seeks to hold the two companies accounta... Read More...

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Phone Addiction Calling?

ARE YOU TALKING TO ME? – April 5, 2022 - The use of cell phones has become an integral part of society. While cell phones have many benefits, many people have developed what some researchers consider an addicti... Read More...

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How Everyone Got So Lonely

THE PALE BLUE DOT – April 11, 2022 - She cites many factors that have contributed to this dystopian moment—among them, smartphones, the gig economy, the contactless economy, the growth of cities, the rise in si... Read More...

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Teens Talk Social Media and Body Image

A REFLECTION OF THE TIMES – Mar. 31, 2022 - As we regularly do when The Times writes about an issue that touches the lives of young people, we used our daily Student Opinion forum to ask teenagers to share the... Read More...

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Can Technology Reduce Substance Abuse?

PHONING IT IN – March 31, 2022 - UCF clinical psychologist and Professor Lidia Meshesha works tirelessly to help improve the lives of people afflicted by addiction. She knows from previous studies, that many... Read More...

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‘Water by the Spoonful’ Weaves a Web of Addiction & Internet

VIDEO – GO SEE A PLAY, ANY PLAY – March 30, 2022 - What the playwright lacks in tech savvy, she makes up for in her portrayal of a Latinx family from Philly. The play’s strongest moments are when cousins Elliot... Read More...

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Why is There a Mental-Health Crisis Among American Children?

SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN – Mar. 23, 2022 - Last June, researchers from Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine documented six unusual cases in the journal Movement Disorders. The subjects wer... Read More...

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Making Peace With Your Body

IT STARTS RIGHT NOW – Mar. 18, 2022 - How long would it be, I wondered, until they would be repeating some version of this refrain? Just moments before, I had listened to a whole different storyline unfold. Tw... Read More...

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Startups push ADHD meds through APP ads

PAGING DR. TIKTOK – Mar. 13, 2022 - Combined with other social media posts and sketchy Google search results, the proliferation of drug ads on TikTok can convince kids to diagnose themselves with conditions th... Read More...

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TikTok Leaves Teens Thinking They Have Mental Illness

CRAZY – Dec. 26, 2021 - “We have to convince these kids to release their self-diagnoses but when they leave us they go right back into that TikTok community which reinforces their beliefs,” said Don Grant, exec... Read More...

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Artist Predicted Social Media Addiction 50 Years Ago

NOW HE TELLS US! – Mar. 8, 2022 - Audiences are consumers & subjects of mass media As an internationally taught artist, Paik spent a considerable amount of time in various countries, observing t... Read More...

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Does My Kid Have a Tech Addiction?

DO YOU? – Feb. 28, 2022 - In her book “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence,” Dr. Anna Lembke makes the case for how technology, with its promise of nonstop engagement and flashing lights, ... Read More...

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Smartphone Addiction

Why Apple’s Tone-deaf Gambling Ads Make Me Worry

Apple ‘pauses’ gambling ads after placing them next to kids’ games, addiction recovery apps

How Ugly Will Life in the Metaverse Become?

New Book Helps Us Heal our ‘screen-broken brains’

Put Down Your Devices and Let Your Mind Wander

Five Ways to Avoid a News Addiction

Facebook Fined $400 Million for Treatment of Children’s Data

Program Helping Youth to Detox From Technology Addiction

Inside the Mind of an Addict

Are Smartphones Making Kids Dumb?

19-Year-Old TikToker Cooper Noriega Has Died

TikTok Addiction? Here Are The Signs!

Worried about your kids’ screen time? Check your own first.

The Dark Side of Life Trading Crypto

Instagram and Snapchat Addiction Allegedly Led to 17-Year-Old Boy’s Suicide

Phone Addiction Calling?

How Everyone Got So Lonely

Can Technology Reduce Substance Abuse?

‘Water by the Spoonful’ Weaves a Web of Addiction & Internet

Addiction: It’s Not Just About Drugs Anymore

Why is There a Mental-Health Crisis Among American Children?

Making Peace With Your Body

Startups push ADHD meds through APP ads

TikTok Leaves Teens Thinking They Have Mental Illness

Does My Kid Have a Tech Addiction?