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But there's another advantage of turning your screen black and white: According to former Googler Tristan Harris, enabling grayscale mode can help cure
your smartphone addiction by making the screen less appealing.
Not exact matches
The social networking juggernaut found itself engulfed
by controversies over fake news, electoral interference, privacy violations, and a broad backlash to
smartphone addiction.
Brooklyn - based startup Light is on a mission to help people kick their
addiction to
smartphone apps, and they're out to accomplish their goal
by... making another phone.
Here's one that might actually be worth spending a few minutes of your life on: the
Smartphone Compulsion Test, developed
by David Greenfield, PhD, of the Center for Internet and Technology
Addiction at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
In fact, its fueled
by population growth, expanding access to the internet, the continued migration online (& the decline of TV & newspapers), and in turn to mobile /
smartphones, and most of all the iterative human
addiction for more & more info / answers / entertainment.
Apple was criticised earlier this year
by two of its own shareholders, who urged the company to address a «growing public health crisis» of
smartphone addiction in young people.
He also tries to keep up with the articles that come out on the subject; he has been especially moved
by Jean M. Twenge's writing about the demise of the first generation raised on
smartphones, and Andrew Sullivan's piece in New York magazine on how he cured his internet
addiction with a
smartphone - free camp.
The letter also cited the mounting concerns about how social media use affects adolescents and other young people, as evidenced
by the recent letter from Apple stakeholders outlining their concerns over
smartphone «
addiction».
Apple has responded to an open letter published
by two of its investors calling for the company to address
smartphone addiction in young people.
Discovered
by AdWeek and conceived
by Noka Films, a new video that parodies an iPhone 7 ad is supposed to raise awareness on a major iPhone side - effect that's not always obvious:
Smartphone addiction.
Millennials, the generation born between 1982 - 2002, are characteristically marked
by low hanging - heads staring into
smartphones, feeding their
addiction to all things digital, especially social media.