StayOnTask – Applications sur Google Play NEW: Check out the new Stay On Task Plus which is a premium version of this app with several new features. Stay On Task is a simple, unobtrusive way to improve your focus and get your work done. It checks up on you to make sure you're doing your work and not loafing. The premium version, StayOnTaskPLUS, has everything this app has, plus:- Customizable alarm tones- A customizable background image- The ability to schedule times to automatically start tracking work sessions- The ability to temporarily pause your work sessions StayOnTaskPLUS is available here: NOUVEAU: Découvrez le nouveau rester sur la tâche Plus qui est une version premium de cette application avec plusieurs nouvelles fonctionnalités. Rester sur la tâche est un moyen simple, discret à améliorer votre attention et obtenir votre travail. StayOnTaskPLUS est disponible ici:
25 Effective Tech Tips for the Easily Distracted Install StayFocused: You don’t necessarily have to be prone to being distracted to sit down to work only to find yourself shopping for pearl snap shirts on eBay and wondering how you got there. StayFocused is a Google Chrome plug-in that lets you decide up front how much time to allow yourself to burn on those time-wasting sites before it cuts you off cold.Track yourself with RescueTime: If you’re not quite ready to let StayFocused dictate your web browsing, try RescueTime. It records where you click and how much time you spend there so that you can see the depressing results in all their graphed glory. If all else fails, flip the slider on your Wi-Fi to off or unplug the Ethernet cable, turn off your phone, lock the door, and close the window.
Google Wants To Help You With Your Phone Addiction If you ever worry you spend too much time staring at your phone, Google wants to help you out. Android P, the latest software update for phones running Google’s operating system, is full of features that help users manage — and limit — their screen time. A new "Time Spent" dashboard shows users which apps they're using most. Users will also see how many times they've unlocked their device, the total time spent on the device, and the number of notifications received. From this dashboard, which is a part of Android P, time limits can also be set for certain apps. Users can get more information by tapping on app icons from the Android dashboard. Many of the new time management features are coming to YouTube. If YouTube has been playing for "a while" according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the service will display an alert that says "Time to take a break?" Additionally, YouTube will show users how much time they've spent watching on mobile and desktop applications.
6 Apps to Stop Your Smartphone Addiction If you're like most busy professionals today, it can be hard to tear yourself away from your phone screen. With apps, email, and social media all at the tip of our fingers, we're constantly distracted by the mobile world. It may seem counterintuitive to use an app to unplug, but in an age where we use our smartphones for almost everything, it makes sense to fight fire with fire. Here are six apps that can help you to, well, stop using your apps: This app helps users unplug by blocking distracting apps like Facebook and games and filtering communications. Moment tracks your device usage and allows you to set daily limits; the app notifies you if you exceed them. BreakFree incorporates the usage tracking features found in many similar apps, but it differs in that it breaks down the information into an easy-to-understand "addiction score." If you find that you need a more aggressive approach to unplugging, Flipd is the app for you. Hooked on mobile games?
The Long Game: 4 Essentials for a Successful Mindfulness Program Now that the mindfulness in education movement is nearing the end of its first decade, there are a few schools that have built exemplary mindfulness programs. In Implementing a Schoolwide Mindfulness Program, I looked at the ten things to consider while developing your program. This post looks at the key ingredients and lessons learned from successful mindfulness programs that are more than five years old. I've studied dozens of these programs at public and private schools across the world, and I've found four components that lead to the successful development of any such program. 1. Mindfulness is not a magic elixir, and its power does not come overnight. It's better to launch the program with a long-term vision in place. 2. More and more, mindfulness is being taught as a tool to help students deal with stress, or even do better on tests. 3. Yes, an effective mindfulness program will likely reduce student stress. 4. Takeaways for the Long Game
Apple's New iPhone Features Could Help You Spend Less Time On Your Phone Midway through Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi brought up a serious topic: how much time we spend on our iPhones, and how addicted we've gotten to apps over the years. It all goes back to Silicon Valley companies having an existential crisis, in general, over "time well spent." Nowadays, companies are positioning themselves as trying to help address humanity's overreliance on tech, and they're giving customers new tools to help them manage their digital lives better. (In fact, Google announced a similar initiative a month ago at its I/O developers conference.) At night, you can turn this feature on to make your notifications go dark. Screen Time gives you weekly reports on how much time you're spending on certain categories of apps, including Social Networking, Entertainment, and Productivity. Don't expect the kids to be pleased about their parents getting a report of their phone activity, though.
Social media detox: Christina Farr quits Instagram, Facebook Without social media, that pressure melted away. I started to enjoy life's more mundane moments and take stock of what I have today -- a great job, a wonderful community, supportive friends and so on. I could take my time and enjoy it rather than rushing to the finish line. In short, I started to feel happier and lighter. In the aftermath of that realization, I read up on the latest research regarding the impact of frequent social media use. For the latest thinking from academics on the subject, I turned to John Torous, director of the digital psychiatry division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Torous said he doesn't rule out the possibility that social media is making people more depressed and anxious, but he pointed out that the research is still early. "We're still in the early stages of figuring out how the brain reacts when it's connected in this way that we haven't seen before,'" he told me. There's also the thorny issue of causation versus correlation.
#FOMO Leads To Depression And Anxiety In Teen Social Media Users Teens today admit they suffer from FOMO or the fear of missing out on social media, a report in Australia revealed. FOMO elevates their levels of anxiety and stress, and may even contribute to depression, experts said.(Photo : Marius Berthelsen | Pixabay) A report revealed that most teenagers today suffer from the fear of missing out or FOMO which is generated when they use social media. Experts from the Australian Psychological Society found FOMO elevates anxiety levels of teenagers and may contribute to depression. The findings, released [pdf] in the 2015 National Stress and Wellbeing in Australia Survey, measured the levels of stress that Aussies experience and how the use of social media affects their behavior and well-being. Dr. Missing out on something important The survey included questions on Aussies' experience on social media, as well as a separate survey containing questions about FOMO for teenagers who were aged 13 to 17 years old. Intensified anxiety
Why You Should Leave Facebook And How To Actually Do It, According To Artist Nick Briz This article on artist Nick Briz originally appeared on VICE. Last year, The Creators Project made a documentary with the new media artist on how to make interactive and generative animations and have previously written about his program theNewAesthetic.js, a user-friendly software program for making New Aesthetic compositions. Nick Briz is a Chicago-based new media artist, educator, and organizer. Briz teaches at the Marwen Foundation and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has shown his work internationally, and is the co-founder of the GLI.TC/H conference. While all of that is undeniably impressive, I must say I knew Briz was a genius when I first saw “Apple Computers,” a powerful affront against Apple and a manifesto for the prosumer of our age. I recently left Facebook as well, but I was uninterested in any self-congratulatory artwork or dramatic fuck-you to the social platform. Briz believes that many other types of webs and social platforms are possible. Related:
How Technology Is Reshaping Human Behavior (And What You Should Do About It) Earlier this week, I had the privilege to present the opening address keynote at Frost & Sullivan’s Executive MindXchange at the JW Marriott in Tucson, AZ to a group of more than 300 customer experience and contact center executives from organizations like American Express, Citigroup, Intuit, Eli Lilly, Cardinal Health, Victoria’s Secret, Discover Financial Services, Kohl’s, Nokia, Hyundai, Schneider Electric, and others. I’ve included the entire deck below. Below are some brief accompanying thoughts: Customers have unprecedented speed and access to anything and anyone from anywhere. This is dramatically shifting customer expectations, and continues to do so as new innovations continue to be absorbed into the mobile landscape. During my presentation, I mentioned 3 organizations that were doing innovative things to leverage technology to better serve customers. I polled the audience: “How many of you spent more last year with Amazon than you did five years ago?”
Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal 2010s social media data misuse In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica for political advertising without informed consent.[1] In interviews with The Guardian and The New York Times, information about the data misuse was disclosed in March 2018 by Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee.[7] In response, Facebook apologized for their role in the data harvesting and their CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified[when?] in front of Congress.[7] In July 2019, it was announced that Facebook was to be fined $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commission due to its privacy violations.[8] In October 2019, Facebook agreed to pay a £500,000 fine to the UK Information Commissioner's Office for exposing the data of its users to a "serious risk of harm".[9] In May 2018, Cambridge Analytica filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.[10] Data characteristics [edit] Facebook sent a message[when?] Donald Trump campaign
Addicted to Your Mobile Phone? 5 Ways to Beat Your Phone Addiction An addiction is when the thing you are addicted to begins to control your life and interferes with your daily activities, work, and relationships. The classical definition of an alcoholic is someone who wakes up to a glass of vodka instead of a cup of coffee. But with the boom of technology, the signs of addiction can also be found in other places besides the bottom of a glass, it can also be found in the form of cell phones. If you find yourself checking your phone first thing in the morning—before even getting out of bed, you may be addicted. Are missing out on living a fulfilled and rich life because you’re constantly staring at your cell phone? Here are five tips to manage your phone addiction. 1. If you find yourself waking up in the morning reaching to check in with your phone before you even got out of bed, this is a serious problem. 2. The truth of the matter is having a cell phone close by at work is common, and sometimes even required. 3. This should be a law. 4. 5.
#DeleteFacebook is trending because Facebook users are livid about the poor handling of Cambridge Analytica's data harvesting