Tag: Answer Addiction

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?

Try a Digital-Free Day Trip and Escape to the Outdoors If we were to find ourselves without our phones unexpectedly most of us would feel very vulnerable and lost. It’s become all too easy to become over-reliant on the tools on our smartphones, leaving us seriously doubting our ability to cope without them. But combatting digital dependence is easy and can be fun,… Continue reading Try a Digital-Free Day Trip and Escape to the Outdoors

Get Off Screens and Get Outside for #MentalHealthMonth May is Mental Health Awareness Month, also known as #MentalHealthMonth. At Time To Log Off we’re going to be focusing on two aspects of mental health affected by our 24:7 screen habits: social media and mental health, and the benefits of getting outside and connecting with nature. Human beings have only… Continue reading Get Off Screens and Get Outside for #MentalHealthMonth