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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?
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.
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:
Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal 2010s social media data misuse In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected without their consent by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, predominantly to be used for political advertising.[1] Information about the data misuse was disclosed in 2018 by Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee, in interviews with The Guardian and The New York Times.[7] In response, Facebook apologized for their role in the data harvesting and their CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified 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] Overview[edit] Data characteristics[edit] Numbers[edit] Information[edit] Dr.
#DeleteFacebook is trending because Facebook users are livid about the poor handling of Cambridge Analytica's data harvesting Here are all the celebrities who have said they're quitting Facebook after its very scandalous year Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March, comedian Will Ferrell wrote he would be deleting his official Facebook page. He told followers in a message he disapproved of "Cambridge Analytica's misuse of millions of Facebook users' information in order to undermine our democracy and infringe on our citizens' privacy." "Hi Friends,I'm reaching out to let you know that in 72 hours I will be deleting my Facebook account. I am not deleting it immediately, in order to give this message enough time to get across to my fans and followers.I have always had an aversion to social media and have primarily used it as a tool to help support our work at Funny Or Die, some of my personal projects, as well as charity causes that I am passionate about.
Il embauche des tueurs à gages virtuels pour éliminer son fils en ligne Temps de lecture: 2 min Lassé de voir son fils jouer aux jeux vidéo, un père de famille chinois a trouvé une solution pour le moins surprenante: il a embauché des tueurs à gages pour assassiner son fils virtuellement, rapporte le site spécialisé dans le jeu vidéo Kotaku. Objectif pour M. Feng: faire tuer l’avatar de son fils et le décourager de jouer en ligne. Une initiative plutôt inhabituelle que M. Mark Griffiths, expert en addiction à la Trent Université de Nottingham, «a passé 25 ans à étudier les joueurs compulsifs». «Ce n’est pas le temps que vous passez à jouer qui est important, mais l’impact que cela a sur votre vie. Pourtant, la méthode a porté ses fruits selon Kotaku. «Je peux jouer ou ne pas jouer, cela n’a pas d’importance pour moi. «Soulagé» d’une telle confidence, M. «Etre tué par quelqu’un arrive tous les jours.
France bans cellphone use in public schools | News | DW | 08.06.2018 Opponents of the blanket ban on mobile phone use said it is unlikely to wean students off their phones. The legislation — approved by members of France's lower house National Assembly on Thursday — would require students to keep their phones out of sight. However, there was no penalty specified in the law for their use. Lawyers said that teachers do not have a right to confiscate non-dangerous belongings from students. Supporters of the bill said smartphone usage among children has worsened cyberbullying, eased access to pornography and hampered the ability of youngsters to interact socially. Read more: Smartphone addiction messes up brain chemistry Critics say the law is unlikely to wean students off their smartphones Richard Ferrand, head of French President Emmanuel Macron's 'Republic on the Move' party in Parliament, said the law would improve children's social skills." Read more: 100,000 German teenagers addicted to social media, study finds kw/bw (AFP, Reuters)
Cell Phones Are Banned at This Tiny French Restaurant You may be tempted to document your #foodporn at Petit Jardin, but post at your own risk—the restaurant in the south of France just banned cell phone use at their tables. Located in Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, about three hours northwest from Marseille, the tiny joint is purely focused on barbecue and scintillating conversation. Eighty percent of French people typically use their phones during dinner, according to The Local, which is why Petit Jardin owner Hean-Noël Fluery wants to encourage more traditional French values at his restaurant—namely, discussion during meals. "People accept having to turn their phones off when they go to the cinema or the theatre, so why not restaurants?" he said. Petit Jardin's cell phone ban runs on a strict penalty card system, not unlike what you'd see in a soccer game. The French restaurant isn't the first to impose rules on its customers.
Brooklyn Restaurant Carthage Must Be Destroyed Bans Diners From Taking Photos A Brooklyn restaurant decked out entirely in the "it" color of the moment, millennial pink, and serving dishes such as "Summer on Toast" sounds like an Instagrammer's dream. But at Carthage Must Be Destroyed, the all-pink Australian café in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, photographs are not allowed—which puts a serious cramp in diners' social media style. A glance at Carthage Must Be Destroyed's menu reveals an initial, brief version of the policy: "No photo shoots/No commercial or media photography inside or outside," the menu says. But sources tell Eater that a full list detailing the rules at length is handed to guests upon being seated, along with the menu. According to Yelp reviews, the restaurant takes the rules seriously—and has no problem with enforcing them. However, a quick search on Instagram proves that several sneaky visitors have found a way around the rules, snapping pictures of the pink walls, pink plates, and photogenic dishes.
French restaurant bans cameras to stop diners taking pictures of their food Sharing pictures of food online is an established trendHowever French chefs are now trying to stop diners taking snapsThey claim it ruins the atmosphere and could give away their secrets By Louise Eccles for the Daily Mail Published: 19:57 EST, 16 February 2014 | Updated: 13:35 EST, 17 February 2014 Prolific: Nigella Lawson is continuously sharing pictures of meals out with followers on Twitter It is a commonplace sight in Britain’s high-end restaurants. A customer, delighted with their meal, photographs their plate of food and posts it on Twitter. The snapshots are sometimes labelled ‘food porn’ by their aficionados. But far from enjoying the free publicity, agitated French chefs have pledged to ban cameras in their restaurants, claiming it is the height of bad manners and an infringement of their ‘intellectual property’. A group of top chefs have criticised diners for ruining the surprise for future diners and tipping off rivals about their food presentation. ‘It’s difficult to forbid it.
Bali resort bans smartphones from poolside to enforce relaxation Does a hotel pool even exist if you don’t put it on social media? It’s a question one Bali resort is encouraging its guests to put to the test by banning phones and mobile devices by the pool, in a bid to encourage people to absorb their surroundings rather than staring at a screen. The enforced “digital detox ruling” at Ayana Resort in Bali, which extends to all smartphones and digital devices, is an an attempt to forcibly untether people from the global addiction of checking the news, compulsively taking photos, updating social media and replying to emails even when on holiday. Instead guests are encouraged to swim, read books, or play a game of Jenga, or just “truly relax and be in the moment”, according to a hotel spokesperson. The phenomenon of being unable to switch off, or be parted from your phone, has even been given a name: nomaphobia, now described as the “21st century disease”. Ayana resort’s no-phone policy is unlikely to be popular with everyone however.