If you find yourself patting your pocket anxiously throughout your day to check you still have your phone, or explode with rage or stress when you can't find it then you might just be suffering from nomophobia. Never heard of it? You will do....
Apple showcases 'Screen Time', Google launches 'Digital Wellbeing'. Will these two tech giants solve our internet addiction? Or is fighting tech with tech ignoring the bigger question about how the way we use tech is making so many people anxious and unhappy....
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....
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,...
Disconnected and asking the wrong questions - that's the simplest way to sum up the attempts of U.S lawmakers to question Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in his Congressional hearing. Supposed to be a seminal moment in re-balancing Facebook's power, the two days passed without Zuckerberg breaking much...
At our latest count in the UK, 18-24-year-old women are now spending 88.5 hours a month looking at their smartphones. This might seem shockingly high, but stop to think that the average use across all age groups is now 65.3 hours a month on a...
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has moved into a phase of attempting to show everything that is bad about Facebook's data practices. The huge collection of data by tech companies has dominated most of the conversation, moving into the brash memos of executives who probably should...
Why do you constantly check your phone or social networks? It may well be force of habit – a little bit of boredom creeps in so you unconsciously take out your phone and navigate to Facebook. But then there are also a multitude of other...
Waiting for a bus? Friend a bit late? It’s easy to spend this otherwise seemingly wasted time unlocking your smartphone screen and just checking for little bits of information. Email, social media, perhaps the latest news – it hoovers up the nooks and crannies of...
