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Friends Before Phones: Phone Addiction is Wrecking Our Social Lives You go to meet a friend, wait a bit…They finally arrive but seem somewhat preoccupied. Their phone is out. You’re talking to them but they don’t really respond. They don’t say anything because their head is in a screen. “What’s going on?” You interject. For… Continue reading Friends Before Phones: Phone Addiction is Wrecking Our Social Lives

Is It Time To Ditch The Dating Apps? There was a time, somewhere near 2012, where mobile dating apps like Tinder represented something of a revolution. There were three problems in the online dating market; stigma, accessibility and  unrestricted messaging. The first two meant that many people wouldn’t even sign up in the first place,… Continue reading Is It Time To Ditch The Dating Apps?

Will Apple and Google really fix our internet addiction? Digital detox hit the news this week, with Apple the somewhat unlikely creators of a new feature that might help users monitor and spend less time on the very devices they produce. This comes just a few weeks after Google announced similar functionality, and potentially demonstrates a change in attitude from the… Continue reading Will Apple and Google really fix our internet addiction?

How Social Media Outrage Is Turning Us All Into Keyboard Warriors Go to the Facebook page of any newspaper and browse the comments of a few posts. It won’t be a pretty sight. It won’t take long to find complaints about how the quality of journalism is going down, that the article is wrong, or that the… Continue reading How Social Media Outrage Is Turning Us All Into Keyboard Warriors

11 Ways to Guarantee Your Family’s Digital Wellbeing There’s been a lot written about the importance of digital wellbeing and digital health recently, much of it focused on software tools. But what can parents do by themselves if they want to cut down on family tech time and guarantee digital wellbeing at home? It can be hard to your control tech… Continue reading 11 Ways to Guarantee Your Family’s Digital Wellbeing

What is Nomophobia? Those who are ‘nomophobic’, are arguably those who need a digital detox the most! People that suffer from an overwhelming, crippling, anxiety when their phone has died or has no signal would definitely benefit from some time away from the devices that we all hardly ever go without. The term literally means ‘no-mobile-phone-phobia’.… Continue reading What is Nomophobia?

Not upgrading your phone is the cure to your Smartphone Addiction I’m finishing my two year contract of handset payments this month. No big deal – thousands of other people do this all the time of course. But this time, for me, it’s different. It’s actually the first time I’ve ever entered a two year… Continue reading Not upgrading your phone is the cure to your Smartphone Addiction

4 Things You Didn’t Know About Digital Wellness You may have heard the term ‘digital wellness’ or ‘digital wellbeing’ being bandied about a lot lately without much idea what it’s about. Digital wellbeing is a relatively new area of the whole wellness area and focuses on our physical and psycho-social health in a digital world. Given the continually… Continue reading 4 Things You Didn’t Know About Digital Wellness

5 Wonderful Ways to Unplug and Connect on Earth Day At Time To Log Off, we encourage you to find balance with screens in a world where digital is dominant. We share the benefits of logging off and dedicating real time to the relationships that matter most – these can be our relationships with our loved ones, as well… Continue reading 5 Wonderful Ways to Unplug and Connect on Earth Day

Are You a Toilet Texter? With every addiction, there’s a recognition moment. Maybe it’s 10am and you’re cracking open a bottle of Stella; maybe you’re lighting one cigarette off of another; maybe you have replaced the bread in your sandwiches for potato waffles. Whether it’s food, alcohol, cigarettes or technology, everyone has that moment where… Continue reading Are You a Toilet Texter?