tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post9125697079904086380..comments2023-12-02T02:26:05.528-08:00Comments on JimPintoBlog: Digital AddictionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10670437428300830000noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-84306920993086020492016-02-28T21:04:24.442-08:002016-02-28T21:04:24.442-08:001. Do you use a smartphone? Yes
I confess that I’...1. Do you use a smartphone? Yes <br />I confess that I’m addicted. Are you? No<br /><br />2. Do you take your smartphone everywhere with you? Yes<br /><br />3. Do you check email, Facebook or text constantly? <br />No. I check email periodically, but I don’t do FB!<br /><br />4. While with others, do you consider texting or email impolite? <br />It really depends on the setting & the circumstances. It can be impolite but not always.<br /><br />5. Do you forbid use of smartphones while at family dinner? Yes<br /><br />6. Do you notice digital addiction trends increasing everywhere? Yes<br /><br />7. Do you have digital addiction? No. How are you controlling it? N/A<br /><br />8. Please provide your own additional comments and suggestions. <br /><br />Digital addiction is no different than any other addiction. The first step in recovery is to recognize that you have a problem. There’s a big difference, however, between using a smartphone and being obsessed with it. If you’re going to have a smartphone you should use it and get your money’s worth out of it, especially if it’s used in your professional life. <br /><br />Most of the people I consider addicted to digital, however, are not using their devices for any other reason beyond self-indulgence. IMO, that is the primary/dominant type of usage that sucks people into addictive behavior — basically, people with waaaay too much time on their hands! (In other words, I really don’t give a damn about where you had lunch today or what you ate!)<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-43994557576176640902016-02-28T13:24:50.447-08:002016-02-28T13:24:50.447-08:001. Do you use a smartphone?
No, Just a flip phone...1. Do you use a smartphone? <br />No, Just a flip phone. The company wants me to have one, but not bad enough to pay for it :)<br /><br />I confess that I’m addicted. Are you? <br />No,<br /><br />2. Do you take your smartphone everywhere with you? <br />No<br /><br />3. Do you check email, Facebook or text constantly? <br />No, I check in the morning, and several times during the day. I have text turn off unless they pay for the message.<br /><br />4. While with others, do you consider texting or email impolite? <br />Yes, unless a true emergency. (on-call events, but excuse yourself and take it away from the group)<br /><br />5. Do you forbid use of smartphones while at family dinner? <br />Yes<br /><br />6. Do you notice digital addiction trends increasing everywhere? <br />Yes<br /><br />7. Do you have digital addiction? <br />No <br /><br />How are you controlling it? <br />no need to<br /><br />8. Please provide your own additional comments and suggestions. <br />I work in an engineering office, but when I get home to my farm we are lucky to one bar a lot of the time so I am not as tempted as others may be.Ralph McDonaldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-63022691824951037972016-02-27T14:41:13.050-08:002016-02-27T14:41:13.050-08:001. Do you use a smartphone? I confess that I’m add...1. Do you use a smartphone? I confess that I’m addicted. Are you? YES - ABOUT EQUAL TO LANDLINE FOR TELEPHONE USE. AND NO - I HOPE I AM NOT ADDICTED<br />2. Do you take your smartphone everywhere with you? YES - JUST IN CASE OF NEED OR EMERGENCY<br />3. Do you check email, Facebook or text constantly? NO...MAYBE A COUPLE OF TIMES A DAY. I REFUSE TO USE FACEBOOK AND TWITTER.<br />4. While with others, do you consider texting or email impolite? ABSOLUTELY AND TOTALLY<br />5. Do you forbid use of smartphones while at family dinner? ABSOLUTELY. IT IS RUINING FAMILY LIFE<br />6. Do you notice digital addiction trends increasing everywhere? YES - ESPECIALLY WITH FEMALES<br />7. Do you have digital addiction? How are you controlling it? I SURE HOPE NOT. TO ME IT IS A TOOL, NOTHING MORE<br />8. Please provide your own additional comments and suggestions. I AGREE WITH YOU, WE ARE RAISING A GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CONDUCT AN INTERPERSONAL CONVERSATION WITH ANOTHER HUMAN. THE MAIN ISSUE WITH TEXTING IS THAT THERE ARE NO TONES OR INFLECTION IN THE WORDS AND I HAVE SEEN MY WIFE AND HER DAUGHTER IN TEARS DUE TO MISUNDERSTANDING - TOTAL LACK OF MEANINGFUL COMMUNICATION.<br /> <br />MAYBE AT MY AGE OF 77 I AM BIASED BUT I STILL BELIEVE THERE IS A PLACE FOR SMARATPHONES AND THERE ARE DEFINITELYARE PLACES WHERE THEY SHOULD NOT BE USED.Darrellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-52714416064801734612016-02-26T17:22:06.605-08:002016-02-26T17:22:06.605-08:00Thanks for the comments and book suggestion, Gary....Thanks for the comments and book suggestion, Gary.<br /><br />Happy to note your hands-on soccer-coach type activities. Digital is good, as an effective and supportive tool.<br /><br />Yes, the other non-digital activities like reading and running or walking in the park, help combat digital addiction. <br /><br />I'm working on it.<br /><br />:)<br />JimAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10670437428300830000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-35397756588890172012016-02-26T17:14:08.975-08:002016-02-26T17:14:08.975-08:00Robert :
Thanks for the excellent points you made...Robert :<br /><br />Thanks for the excellent points you made. As technology advances like 3D-glasses emerge, people will get further away from the old styles of personal discussion and chatting. It should be interesting to see how this trend develops, and what backlash will emerge.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10670437428300830000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-63283981594215588282016-02-26T17:01:56.302-08:002016-02-26T17:01:56.302-08:00Darryl:
Hmmmm.... I'm "old" - so I ...Darryl:<br /><br />Hmmmm.... I'm "old" - so I hadn't recognized that young people don't get together for dinner any more. Millennials eat whatever, whenever convenient? Enlighten me...<br /><br />I too have an iPhone and Apple Watch and use Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn quite often. I'm working on these addictions... :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10670437428300830000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-41522212133843907732016-02-26T09:37:58.083-08:002016-02-26T09:37:58.083-08:001. Do you use a smartphone? I confess that I’m add...1. Do you use a smartphone? I confess that I’m addicted. Are you?<br />I use smartphone. Aditced. No.<br /><br />2. Do you take your smartphone everywhere with you?<br />no. not always when I leave home, or office, I take it with me.<br /><br />3. Do you check email, Facebook or text constantly?<br />constantly? no. when I get back to the phone, or when I pick it up to go somewhere, I do.<br /><br />4. While with others, do you consider texting or email impolite?<br />yes<br /><br />5. Do you use or forbid use of smartphones while at family dinner?<br />yes<br /><br />6. Do you notice digital addiction trends increasing everywhere?<br />yes<br /><br />7. Do you have digital addiction? How are you controlling it?<br />I check emails every 1-2 days. I check regular mail every week. Am I adicted? I think not. It is simpler to check.<br /><br />8. Please provide your own additional comments and suggestions.<br />Addiction and human contacts are decreasing. I also see this as a difficult issue that needs some resolution.Yulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16084800866989156230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-31831171889496121702016-02-26T07:34:07.566-08:002016-02-26T07:34:07.566-08:00This is true and might become worse: "When a ...This is true and might become worse: "When a whole childhood spent in front of screens, young brains are not really prepared to achieve satisfactory social connections...." <br /><br />It will even be more intense, when time playing games is spent under a 3D hood, so you don´t even have to acknowledge anymore, that you are in fact sitting in some small room in a suburb (or slum) family home...<br /><br />The smile of Zuckerberg, when he walked into that room full of journalists wearing 3D glasses said it all. Add to that the intelligent thoughts of Bruce Schneier, who says that with the Internet of Things "we are building a world sized robot and do not even recognize it" :<br />http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceschneier/2016/02/02/the-internet-of-things-will-be-the-worlds-biggest-robot/#678f2e763162<br /><br />You might tend to believe that the matrix and such fantasies, in the end at least partially, might not be too far from several possible futures.<br /><br />At least, I suppose, that we will face, as well as the people using legal-highs/meth-variants, as mass phenomenon a form of online addiction - people staying in their virtual world as far as possible and neglecting the real world and whatever "natural" kind of living and being. <br /><br />Online/play addictions will arise - same as drugging: the flight from reality into fantasy and dreams of luck, power and glory.... 3D, near to real life.<br /><br />There will be the Zuckerbergs without Glasses and the mass with their Glasses on, absorbed. It´s not religion as a drug for the masses, it´s media. And the quality of that drug is widely enhanced by 3D in the very near future.<br />Robert Unseldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-24335573039314514112016-02-26T07:07:45.829-08:002016-02-26T07:07:45.829-08:00Well, the Boomers were called the Me Generation. M...Well, the Boomers were called the Me Generation. Most things I read about Millennials is true more generally.<br /><br />Check out a book--"The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement" by Jean Twenge and W. Keith Campbell. It's all around us. I find a great many Millennials intelligent and delightful.<br /><br />It is not unusual for people in their 20s to have other focus than religion--at least not for most of 100 years in the US. But, to take an example, worship music through the 90s and until lately was quite shallow. A friend called them "7-Eleven" songs riffing off the quick grocery chain--7 words repeated 11 times. People, including many Millennials but also aging Boomers like me, are searching for more authenticity and transparency in religion--or at least in churches.<br /><br />As for smart phones, yes they can be as addicting as anything. However, mine have been invaluable in conducting my various businesses. It only takes the maturity or discipline to put them down. I see little old ladies glowing from the reflected light of their iPhones now ;-)<br /><br />My entire business is predicated on digital. I could never assign soccer referees to all the events I cover without digital. It's integrated into part of my life.<br /><br />On the other hand, daily I need to do some analog things--read a physical book, walk or run in the park, talk to people in person.<br /><br />Ancient peoples discovered this millennia ago--balance.<br /><br />Thanks Jim. I'm writing this from San Diego, but necessity is cutting the trip short. So no trips to Tijuana or Carlsbad as is my custom.Gary Mintchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10429784793625362577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-53136270616087983402016-02-25T21:23:12.997-08:002016-02-25T21:23:12.997-08:001. Do you use a smartphone?
No
2. Do you take yo...1. Do you use a smartphone? <br />No<br /><br />2. Do you take your smartphone everywhere with you?<br />Not applicable<br /><br />3. Do you check email, Facebook or text constantly?<br />No<br /><br />4. While with others, do you consider texting or email impolite?<br />Yes<br /><br />5. Do you forbid use of smartphones while at family dinner?<br />Yes<br /><br />6. Do you notice digital addiction trends increasing everywhere?<br />Yes<br /><br />7. Do you have digital addiction? <br />No<br /><br />8. Please provide your own additional comments and suggestions.<br />Perhaps to my regret, I'm not digitally addicted to anything.John Antypasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-50806475946065116462016-02-25T19:06:41.686-08:002016-02-25T19:06:41.686-08:001. Do you use a smartphone? I confess that I’m add...1. Do you use a smartphone? I confess that I’m addicted. Are you?<br />Yes and Yes :(<br /><br />2. Do you take your smartphone everywhere with you?<br />Unfortunately, Yes! Except to Bath!!<br /><br />3. Do you check email, Facebook or text constantly?<br />Yes. Mail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, Flipboard, Feedly. <br /><br />4. While with others, do you consider texting or email impolite?<br />Yes and I am guilty of being impolite on several occasions.<br /><br />5. Do you use or forbid use of smartphones while at family dinner?<br />I am at the receiving end. But yes, this is something I have promised my wife and am improving.<br /><br />6. Do you notice digital addiction trends increasing everywhere?<br />Absolutely. Not just in millennials, everywhere. My in-laws are getting addicted too! Probably its because of the novelty factor. <br /><br />7. Do you have digital addiction? How are you controlling it?<br />I feel I am in a downward spiral of this addiction. However, my wife has been much better with this and she is pulling me out of the whirlpool.<br /><br />8. Please provide your own additional comments and suggestions.<br />Its not been all bad. Digital has improved a lot of stuff, but everything in excess is bad and that needs to be controlled.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14649674532344096027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-79529635282381172232016-02-25T16:44:21.669-08:002016-02-25T16:44:21.669-08:00Yes, but are you addicted to other things? Books? ...Yes, but are you addicted to other things? Books? Writing? <br /><br />I remember you once said, "A writer is someone who cannot not write". I suppose that's a kind of addiction. I confess I share that.<br /><br />:)<br />JimAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10670437428300830000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-70118602141193785142016-02-25T16:42:11.728-08:002016-02-25T16:42:11.728-08:00Dan:
I have an Apple Watch too, and that counts ...Dan: <br /><br />I have an Apple Watch too, and that counts in my "addiction". You're still checking your email and other e-stuff.<br /><br />Speaking to your smart-device counts as part of the addiction.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10670437428300830000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-20031409541187943372016-02-25T16:40:19.999-08:002016-02-25T16:40:19.999-08:00Bob:
I guess you and I are similar.
I must conf...Bob:<br /><br />I guess you and I are similar. <br /><br />I must confess to posting regularly on Facebook, sometimes on LinkedIn and Twitter. I suppose posting and checking this blog is part of the same "addiction". Hey, using your iPad counts as a "smart device". <br /><br />The idea of "control" is to cut back, and stop to do other good things.<br /><br />:)<br />JimAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10670437428300830000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-44379084364420303502016-02-25T16:03:21.512-08:002016-02-25T16:03:21.512-08:001. Do you use a smartphone? I confess that I’m add...1. Do you use a smartphone? I confess that I’m addicted. Are you? <br />Yes and Yes<br /><br />2. Do you take your smartphone everywhere with you? <br />Yes<br /><br />3. Do you check email, Facebook or text constantly? <br />Yes, and LinkedIn and CNN<br /><br />4. While with others, do you consider texting or email impolite? <br />Yes<br /><br />5. Do you forbid use of smartphones while at family dinner? <br />Does not apply.<br /><br />6. Do you notice digital addiction trends increasing everywhere? <br />Yes, I'm very worried that young children will develop neck, back and posture problems from constantly looking down at their devices, plus ADD.<br /><br />7. Do you have digital addiction? How are you controlling it?<br />By using smartphone to keep up with things.<br /><br />8. Please provide your own additional comments and suggestions. <br />Having a smart watch is great for managing the volume of email I get by quickly seeing what is important. Ability to speak to the watch to issue commands is handy, especially while driving.Dan Wolfsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-38306720733498848692016-02-25T13:34:22.426-08:002016-02-25T13:34:22.426-08:001. Do you use a smartphone? I confess that I’m add... 1. Do you use a smartphone? I confess that I’m addicted. Are you?<br /><br /> Yes.<br /><br /> 2. Do you take your smartphone everywhere with you?<br /><br /> Yes.<br /><br /> 3. Do you check email, Facebook or text constantly?<br /><br /> Just Email. I don't have FaceBook<br /><br /> 4. While with others, do you consider texting or email impolite?<br /><br /> Yes except for my wife.<br /><br /> 5. Do you use or forbid use of smartphones while at family dinner?<br /><br /> No. I use my iPad :)<br /><br /> 6. Do you notice digital addiction trends increasing everywhere?<br /><br /> Yes.<br /><br /> 7. Do you have digital addiction? How are you controlling it?<br /><br /> Yes. I'm not controlling it. I need to.<br /><br /><br /> 8. Please provide your own additional comments and suggestions.<br /><br /> One problem is I keep getting very interesting newsletters etc. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10743994952745963616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719650308494063095.post-70841840831904458452016-02-25T11:01:57.966-08:002016-02-25T11:01:57.966-08:00I thank the gods that I was born and reared before...I thank the gods that I was born and reared before the brain-sucking smartphones came along. Not only do I not have such a device, I cannot become addicted.Jack Grenardnoreply@blogger.com