There was a time, somewhere near 2012, when apps like Tinder represented a dating revolution. But along the journey something began to change, ghosting, benching, catfishing, people's behaviour when using dating apps just seemed to get worse. Is it time to date again in the...
Parents complain about their children's screen use while children are increasingly unhappy about their parents' smartphone habits. Is it time we all looked at what our relationship with tech is doing to family life?...
Email, web chat, social media, smartphones. The modern workplace can’t do without these things. Just imagine a working environment where all of these were banned. Outrageous? Well, it might actually be BETTER for our productivity. ...
My wife and I have a new rule in our household: we don’t look at our devices in front of our kids. This wasn't always the case but noticing our own smartphone habits seemed to be making the kids more keen to be glued to...
Young people are struggling more than ever with a crisis of confidence and anxiety, and the accelerating downward turn in their mental wellbeing correlates with increased use of technology over exactly the same period. Heavy tech use is bad for mental health: the evidence is...
Social media networks say they are all about connecting people. But they have warped into distraction engines which suck hours of our attention - taking us away from those we could be connecting with....
The average person checks their smartphone 150 times a day and our smartphone habits increasingly remove us from the present moment and leave us hopelessly distracted. Here are six ways you can apply more mindfulness to your digital habits, starting from now. #1 Limit your source consumption With the vast amount of information that is available...
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...
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, educational,...
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,...
