![]() ![]() Just as revealing: The users weren’t fully aware of how addicted they were. ![]() Most of these interactions were for less than 30 seconds, but they add up. Each day, there are literally billions of Facebook “likes.”Īm I exaggerating? A small but detailed 2015 study of young adults found that participants were using their phones five hours a day, at 85 separate times. I either lived as a voice online or I lived as a human being in the world that humans had lived in since the beginning of time.Įvery single minute on the planet, YouTube users upload 400 hours of video and Tinder users swipe profiles over a million times. Every second absorbed in some trivia was a second less for any form of reflection, or calm, or spirituality. Every minute I was engrossed in a virtual interaction I was not involved in a human encounter. Every hour I spent online was not spent in the physical world. But then I began to realize, as my health and happiness deteriorated, that this was not a both-and kind of situation. Yes, I spent many hours communicating with others as a disembodied voice, but my real life and body were still here. I’d long treated my online life as a supplement to my real life, an add-on, as it were. By the last few months, I realized I had been engaging - like most addicts - in a form of denial.
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