Phone addiction is one of the common addictions, that I have also fallen victim of. About four years ago, I was addicted to my phone or social media because there was nothing on my phone that would distract me except social media. I love my phone so much, I scrolled through my phone with no purpose that I couldn’t focus on anything else.
It was quite hard to get over the addiction to phone, it almost seemed impossible. I had an exam about three years ago that made me lose a little bit of my addiction to phones. I was so keen to pass the examination as I didn’t want to repeat the examination, and this reduced my addiction to phones by about 50%.
As I grew, I began to know how time is priceless, I realized that social media brings nothing to me, well, except pleasure which also comes with time wastage and unproductivity, it was not like I was creating any content or promoting anything on social media. In fact, I was always distracted by my friends and they didn’t add literally any value to my life except from killing my boredom.
I began to lose interest in social media as I wanted to focus on a lot of things outside social media and to get serious with my life. I stylishly cut off everything that would entice me to go into social media. I love it. Well, there were some things I did, in order not to feel the effect of not using my phone, these things I deprived joy from.
One thing that always keeps me off my phone is cooking. Yes, cooking. Cooking is one of my favourite hobbies, it is what I love doing the most. Cooking is something that I can spend hours doing without complaining, when I say cooking, I don’t mean our regular dishes at home
Cooking has always kept me off my phone even when I was still a phone addict. The only thing my phone is quite useful for at that moment is music.
Other things, that served as a replacement for my phone were video games and books. Trust me, video games will rarely make me use my phone, I play any game except from football games I only play Monkey Post, haha, mostly I play adventurous games and they just look like movies. I am a big fan of movies but movies will keep me off social media but not my phone.
Books, I do read novels, fictional novels to be precise. But I mostly read them back then only when I had no battery on my phone or when I had no data subscription. Recently, I read books with full focus regardless of the state of my phone. I am trying to dive into nonfiction books although I love reading fictional novels a lot, it is just like a descriptive movie.
I think all of these still come down to movies, haha, am I this movie addict?
It was not so easy to get over phone addiction, as most of us mostly depend on our phones for a lot of things. But I can say that I can go two to three days without my phone and with no regret.
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I wouldn't want to say addiction to phone is a bad thing but if you check the health benefits that comes with the addiction, I would agree it is bad.
Phone addiction fuels procrastination especially if one is the type to love motion graphics like I do. I do try to stop my addiction by leaving my phone at home when I go to work.
Yes. The percent of phone addiction being bad is high. Using phone is not bad but the addiction is.
I agree with you. It is just time wasting.
Thanks for leaving a comment daisy
The first reason why we genuinely reduce our time screen is when we kmrealise how precious time is and it value.
As they would say,Time waits for no man.
Reading books is a good way to stay away from the phone. Like now I spend less time with my phone because my exams stars soon.
How good are you at playing monkey post?👀👀
Exactly. Time waits for no one.
Reading books is quite enjoyable, I don't know about school books, lol
Please don't disgrace me.
School book ? Not always fun to read school because I just woke up now, I slept off while reading a course book😅😅.
Disgrace keh, you don't even know if I want you to teach me how to play😅😅
Send that novel my, I can't remember the last time I read hard copy novel it has always been in wattpad.
But in a serious note , everything is discipline sha
Wattpad or only story don't capture my focus. But hard cover does.
Of course. It is
You and me almost same in this case that cooking and book reading keep us stay away from mobile phone,
I agree with you in this too that social media bring nothing to us and we've a lot of things to focus and achieve in our life
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Haha. That is nice. Cooking huh? A male that cooks 🧐
Of course, it is quite fruitless.
I'm a female 😕
For all of these things, I'd gladly let go of my phone for a while. Wow, I didn't know you played very video games, I like all types of games (especially football, sorry😂)
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Yes, agreed.
Well, maybe when I know how to play it. It would be fun.
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Cooking and reading time are really not times to mix with phone use. A lot of us love getting updated on social media and all but I quite agree that most times, it is less productive and time consuming. Well, no matter the love with phones, balance is also needed. Thanks for sharing.
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I believe we all have our share of phone addiction especially in this era of smart devices.
I enjoy watching movies too but mostly on my phone or laptop, I enjoy watching movies in private. I'm not really a fan of video games but books I can't do without 😅.
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I lost my phone too during an exam, it waa a living hell i tell you.. but i over come it #dreemerforlife
Ha. It is quite painful. I can’t imagine how you will feel.
Yahh it was, but am glad i came out from it, so sorry for the late reply☺️☺️