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Opinion — our phone addiction is out of control
In a world where scrolling has become second nature and our devices an extension of ourselves, we’ve become completely detached from both how dependent we are on being perpetually ‘connected’ and how negatively this is impacting us all.
Last week, I finally did what I’ve been urging myself to do for years and deleted Instagram.
Reading that back, it doesn’t sound like much, but doing so required a great deal more willpower than I’d like to admit and I’ve since found myself asking why on Earth I didn’t do it sooner.
The thing is, I’ve been slowly trying to distance myself from social media for a while now.
In early 2023, following God knows how many hours wasted scrolling, I deleted TikTok, which had me hooked from the moment it became popular at the start of the pandemic and which, as a result, was eating away at my life, my quality of sleep, and my ability to focus for longer than a few seconds.
Addiction likes to jump, however, and without even being conscious of it, the next day I was back to watching one video after the other — often for entire mornings — only this time they weren’t on the For You Page…
