How I got rid of Web 2.0 media addiction (My personal experience) Job: The first and most important problem. You can't give up smartphones and social media because all of your customers use them. Here's what I suggest. Think back to the good old days. After the end of the working day, the work remained in the office. Previously, people did not carry a typewriter with them. Since the time was divided into working time and not. Do not carry your work smartphone home with you. Leave it in the office as if it were your typewriter. Tightly separate time between new technologies and your personal life. Buy a mechanical watch. Private life: For usual life, buy an ordinary push-button mobile phone without an operating system. Do not tell anyone at work this phone number. Thus, leaving the office, no social media work contacts will haunt you during your rest. The second and biggest annoyance is the modern laptop. Don't keep a computer at home suitable for work or social media contacts. Get yourself a simple 80s computer, or x86, pentium 1/2/3/4. Also, do not use smart TV at home. Any smart thing will waste your nervous and time. This is a dangerous irritant. Remember the main rule, now household appliances and smartphones are not created to make your life easier. Technology is designed to take up as much of your time as possible. Deliverance: Smart Web 2.0 technologies use a neuromarketing system that tricks your brain into producing hormones of pleasure and joy. Also, social media users are always looking forward to the award. She makes them constantly check the news feed. Understanding this simple trick explains why abandoning smartphones and social media "slows down" time. Your brain simply stops secreting hormones in large quantities. This causes withdrawal symptoms. Also, a symptom of withdrawal smartphone addiction are: 1) Not being able to focus more than 12 seconds on paper text; 2) Anxiety, trying to find something exciting consciousness; 3) Involuntary movement of the thumb (only for smartphone addicts); 4) Confused thoughts. Don't worry about these symptoms. It's like a runny nose or a cough with a cold. Symptoms go away with recovery. Within 21 days. What to do? First, in order to overcome this addiction, you need to keep yourself busy with something. The best way is to do sports in the fresh air, communicate with people live, and engage in some kind of hobby. For example, repairing a car. Secondly. Your brain, like any other organ, must feel the strain. Read books, watch birds, go baseball. Remember that you are confronting a serious addiction. If you want to know the news use the BBS, RSS, listen to the radio. There are no neuromarketing stimuli in them. Old technologies help to live, not complicate life. Go to the store and buy yourself a DVD/VHS of the movie. Just to be alive. Remember, modern technology replaces real actions with fictional ones. Any action you take in the real world is a thousand times more important than in the virtual one. The more real actions you do, the less space is left for dependence on smart technologies. It is necessary to separate the physical reality and the reality of Web 2.0. The world of Web 2.0 does not exist. This is the involuntary paranoia of public hallucinations. Belief in the materiality of binary code. The real world for a person is the world that he can change with the help of his will and efforts. Like and repost is not a reality, it is a hallucination. Sleep of reason. Twilight of consciousness. It doesn't affect anything. Eventually. Those who really need you and are you important to will call you. If they cannot, then you are not so important in their life. Remember that any smart technology have a downgrade replacement! I am using Windows 95/98/XP. I only pay in cash. I listen to audio tapes and radio. I use old push-button telephones, digital cameras. Anything that requires me to act physically, not virtual. In order for a new way of life to become a habit, you need to observe such a rhythm of life for 21 days. This helped me resist the temptations of smartphones 7 years ago. Remember that the life spent on a smartphone cannot be returned!