מיין לעבן אן א סמארטפאון (וועקער 19)

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לאור בקשת כמה חברים, עפען איך די אשכול לכבוד מיין ארטיקל אין דער לעצטיגע וועקער, פאר קריטיק, הערות, און בעיקר קאמפלימענטן.
א געזונטן ווינטער.

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כ'האב מיך דערמאנט פון דעם ארטיקל - פון וואס כ'האב שטארק הנאה געהאט בשעתו - יעצט ביים ליינען א גאר שיינע ארטיקל אין דעם ענין אינעם נ.י. טיימס. וועגן א שרייבערין פונעם טיימס וואס איז אריבער פון א סמארטפאן צו א פליפ פאון פאר איין חודש די ארטיקל האט אויך גוטע לינקס און ריסארסעס איבער דעם ענין.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/tech ... phone.html

אויב איינער קען נישט עקסעסן, ביטע בעטן, און כ'וועל לייגן די גאנצע.

[היכי דמי]

כ'האב מיך דערמאנט פון דעם ארטיקל - פון וואס כ'האב שטארק הנאה געהאט בשעתו - יעצט ביים ליינען א גאר שיינע ארטיקל אין דעם ענין אינעם נ.י. טיימס. וועגן א שרייבערין פונעם טיימס וואס איז אריבער פון א סמארטפאן צו א פליפ פאון. די ארטיקל האט אויך גוטע לינקס און ריסארסעס איבער דעם ענין.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/tech ... phone.html

אויב איינער קען נישט עקסעסן, ביטע בעטן, און כ'וועל לייגן די גאנצע.

ביטע לייג די גאנצע. ישר כח

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I Was Addicted to My Smartphone, So I Switched to a Flip Phone for a Month
Was it inconvenient? Yes. Did T9 texting drive me crazy? Definitely. Was it worth doing? Absolutely.

Credit...Photo illustration by Plamen Petkov for The New York Times

Kashmir Hill
By Kashmir Hill

Kashmir Hill is a technology reporter who now knows which local radio station plays classical music and listens to it regularly while driving.

Jan. 6, 2024
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This time of year, everyone asks what you like least about your life, but they phrase it as, “What’s your New Year’s resolution?”

My biggest regret of 2023 was my relationship to my smartphone, or my “tech appendage” as I’ve named it in my iPhone settings. My Apple Screen Time reports regularly clocked in at more than five hours a day.

That’s only an hour more than the average American, but I still found it staggering to think that I spent the equivalent of January, February and half of March looking at that tiny screen (April too, if we only count waking hours).

Sure, some (much?) of that time was gainfully spent on activities that enrich my life or are unavoidable: work, family text threads, reading the news and keeping up with far-flung friends. But I reached for the device more than 100 times each day according to my report. And that grasping was increasingly accompanied by the kind of queasy regret that I associate with unhealthy behavior — that feeling I get after I drink too many glasses of wine, finish the whole bag of sour gummies or stay at the poker table when I’m on tilt.

So this December, I made a radical change. I ditched my $1,300 iPhone 15 for a $108 Orbic Journey — a flip phone. It makes phone calls and texts and that was about it. It didn’t even have Snake on it.

It may seem strange to go retro in the age of ChatGPT, artificial intelligence-powered personal stylists and Neuralink brain implants. But with advanced technology poised to embed itself more deeply in my life (not my brain, though — please, never my actual brain), it seemed a perfect time to correct course with the existing tech that already felt out of my control.

The More Boring, the Better
Making the switch was neither easy nor fast. The decision to “upgrade” to the Journey was apparently so preposterous that my carrier wouldn’t allow me to do it over the phone. I had to go to the store.

My 7-year-old stared in disbelief at the technological relic on display beside a collection of sleeker devices with touch screens. “That’s the phone you want? Are you joking?” she asked, rubbing her fingers over the Orbic Journey’s plastic keys.

It wasn’t my first choice. The Journey has been panned by “dumbphone” connoisseurs. Not only is the battery life laughably short, it loses service when it’s on the move and has to be rebooted to reconnect. But it was the only so-called minimalist phone that my low-budget carrier supported. (Ask your own carrier about what models it will support if you embark on a similar journey.)

There are superior options with reliable service available, and some even have mapping capabilities, music players and voice to text. The minimalist market has expanded in recent years, said Jose Briones, who created a “dumbphone finder” to help people choose from 98 models he has tried. (The Journey did not make the list.)

ImageJose Briones, wearing a blue patterned shirt and glasses, talking into a black flip phone.
Jose Briones runs a website dedicated to ranking the best “dumbphones.”Credit...Jason Connolly/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
“People are digitally fatigued after the pandemic, after having to be online all the time,” said Mr. Briones, 28, who is still online enough to manage the Dumbphone subreddit and regularly post reviews of the devices on YouTube.

Mr. Briones still uses a smartphone during work hours, but at night, on weekends and during vacations, he switches to a $299 Light Phone II.

That device was “designed to be used as little as possible” by two founders put off by tech developers who measure success by how many hours users spend glued to their apps. The credit card-size phone can text, make calls, keep a calendar, play music and podcasts, but doesn’t do much more than that.

Both the Light Phone and Mr. Briones’s smartphone, the $480 Hisense A9, have e-ink screens, like a Kindle’s.

“I have found personally that the more boring the screen,” Mr. Briones said, “the easier it is to not be addicted to it.”

(Research bears that out. Simply switching a smartphone to grayscale mode helped people reduce their screen time by 18 percent in one study.)

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A hand holds the Light Phone II.
“The more boring the screen,” Mr. Briones said, “the easier it is to not be addicted to it.”Credit...Jason Connolly/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The Journey’s level of boringness was reassuring. Its main screen was tiny and dull; a smaller one on the outside displayed the time. When I got it home, I had trouble switching my service from the iPhone’s eSIM to the flip phone’s physical one. But soon, I was slowly typing out texts and emoticons using just 9 keys. :-/

Texting anything longer than two sentences involved an excruciating amount of button pushing, so I started to call people instead. This was a problem because most people don’t want their phone to function as a phone.

On my first afternoon, I needed to ask a parent friend for a complicated logistical favor, so I called her and explained the situation to her voice mail. I didn’t hear back and realized why when I opened my personal MacBook that evening. She had texted me, but Apple had routed it to my iMessages rather than my phone. (Clawing back my communications from Apple required signing out of FaceTime on every one of its devices.)

At least she had listened to my voice mail. Others I left were never acknowledged. It was nearly as reliable a method of communication as putting a message in a bottle and throwing it out to sea.

When friends and family did pick up the phone, the conversations went far deeper than a text exchange would have. I had a heart-to-heart with a college friend one morning while walking my dog. She sent me a lengthy text afterward thanking me for some advice I had given her.

I replied with a simple <3. On a dumbphone, your emotions are all straightforward — no complicated emoji shrimp-meets-smirk-meets-crown to decipher.

Flip Phone February?
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The Orbic Journey flip phone, showing only the date, time and battery percentage on its cover.
My black clamshell of a phone induced people to confess their screen time sins to me.Credit...Orbic
Colleagues, friends, and loved ones who saw the device in my hand or noticed my text bubbles go green were equal parts skeptical and envious. “I wish I could do that,” was a refrain I heard so often that I now think Dry January should be followed by Flip Phone February.

My black clamshell of a phone had the effect of a clerical collar, inducing people to confess their screen time sins to me. They hated that they looked at their phone so much around their children, that they watched TikTok at night instead of sleeping, that they looked at it while they were driving, that they started and ended their days with it.

In a 2021 Pew Research survey, 31 percent of adults reported being “almost constantly online" — a feat possible only because of the existence of the smartphone.

This was the most striking aspect of switching to the flip. It meant the digital universe and its infinite pleasures, efficiencies and annoyances were confined to my computer. That was the source of people’s skepticism: They thought I wouldn’t be able to function without Uber, not to mention the world’s knowledge, at my beck and call. (I grew up in the ’90s. It wasn’t that bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

“Do you feel less well-informed?” one colleague asked.

Not really. Information made its way to me, just slightly less instantly. My computer still offered news sites, newsletters and social media rubbernecking.

True, being deprived of the smartphone and its apps was sometimes highly inconvenient:

I’ve got an electric vehicle, and upon pulling into a public charger, low on miles, realized that I could not log into the charger without a smartphone app.

Planning ahead was a necessity without Google Maps because I typically use it to get anywhere more than 15 minutes away. I had to look up routes in advance and memorize the directions, reinvigorating a navigational part of my brain that had long been neglected.

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A smartphone, showing the locations of several restaurants, sits in a holder in front of a car’s dashboard.
Going without a map feature was one of the hardest parts of the dumbphone switch.Credit...Mark Abramson for The New York Times
I received a robot vacuum for Christmas … which could only be set up with an iPhone app.

Midway through the month, I got an “alert” email from my bank: I’d overdrawn my checking account. I usually monitor my balance on the bank’s smartphone app, and move money from a high-yield savings account when it’s getting low. I’d forgotten about this, and had also been procrastinating on a trip to the bank to deposit a paper check — something I usually do by snapping a photo of it in the mobile app. Whoops!

Many of my online accounts, including the New York Times one that allows me to sign into its content management system to draft stories, require two-factor authentication via a smartphone app. Since you are reading this story, I clearly cheated on this one by turning on my smartphone and using it on Wi-Fi to get the code I needed.

Despite these challenges, I survived, even thrived during the month. It was a relief to unplug my brain from the internet on a regular basis and for hours at a time. I read four books. I did a very cool, “magic” jigsaw puzzle. I went on long runs with my husband, during which we talked, rather than retreating into separate audio universes with AirPods. I felt that I had more time, and more control over what to do with it.

After about two weeks, I noticed I’d lost my “thumb twitch” — a physical urge to check my phone in the morning, at red lights, waiting for an elevator or at any other moment when my mind had a brief opportunity to wander.

“Your face looks less stressed,” my husband observed, when I asked him if he’d noticed any changes in me.

I struggle with middle of the night wake-ups. The night before the switch to the flip phone, I woke up at 1 a.m. and reached for my iPhone. I was then up until 4 a.m. holiday shopping and reading a long yarn about the mysterious deaths of two mountaineers in 1973.

But the Journey held no midnight enticements and my sleep improved dramatically. I still woke up but regularly fell back asleep within a few minutes.

“Our health is competing with many of these services and companies that are vying for our time and our energy and our attention,” said Matthew Buman, a professor of movement sciences at Arizona State University.

Dr. Buman just completed a study funded by the National Institutes of Health into strategies to get people off screens and moving more, from motivational messages when they’ve been on the screen too long (“You’re close to your goal. You can do this!”) to awarding screen time based on hitting exercise goals.

He hopes that the smartphone giants Apple and Google will make their screen time and well-being apps more effective by incorporating strategies that are proved to work. Dr. Buman’s program helped reduce the screen time of the 110 people in the two-year study, but he’s still assessing the findings to figure out which strategies were the most effective.

I told Dr. Buman about my own strategy — the flip phone. He said it probably made my mind feel more free and feel as if I had more time (both true), but that “in our society, it’s hard to sustain that in the long term.”

Dr. Buman, meet Logan Lane, 19. She first got an iPhone when she was 11, but came to hate how it made her feel so she switched to a flip phone. In 2021, when she was in high school in Brooklyn, she founded the Luddite Club for fellow students who wanted to distance themselves from technology and social media. Now a freshman at Oberlin College in Ohio, she is still a proud owner of a TCL FLIP. She told me that she hoped to remain smartphone-free for the rest of her life and to one day be a “mom with a flip phone.”

Breaking Bad Habits
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Five young people, wearing winter clothing, sitting in a circle on stone steps.
Logan Lane, at left, with other members of the Luddite Club, outside the Brooklyn Public Library last year.Credit...Scott Rossi for The New York Times
I asked my 7-year-old what she thought of this “flip phone mom.”

“I like it better. You don’t look at your phone as much and you spend more time playing with me,” she said, making me feel both wonderful and terrible.

The part of my brain that wanted to Instagram every cute moment with my daughters withered away over the course of the month. I could just enjoy those moments rather than trying to capture them for others. I did take a handful of low-resolution, often-blurry photos with the Journey’s subpar camera. In this way, it reminded me of my own childhood. I have four good photos from Christmas this year rather than 100 or so.

My social circle shrank for the month. I didn’t send a blast of “Happy New Year” texts (too hard via flip) and I disappeared from Instagram (causing one friend to send me an “are you OK?” message). You might think I would have FOMO, but I didn’t — maybe because all the interactions I was having felt richer.

As much as I loved my flip phone life and the mental reset it provided, I think I might get fired if I failed to respond in a timely manner to Slack messages and emails as often as I did in the month. (Editor’s note: This is unfounded projection, clearly masking a deep and uncontrollable desire to return to the smartphone.) So I do plan to return to my iPhone in 2024, but in grayscale and with more mindfulness about how I use it.

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A side view of an open black flip phone.
After about two weeks with the flip phone, I noticed I’d lost my “thumb twitch” — a physical urge to check my phone at any moment when my mind had a brief opportunity to wander.Credit...Orbic
What doesn’t help people control their screen time is simply keeping track of it, Laura Zimmermann, an assistant professor at IE Business School in Madrid, told me. She does research on consumer technology interaction and has been studying Google’s and Apple’s tools since they came out five years ago. Beyond tracking, the tools allow users to set time limits on particular apps, but these limits are easily overridden.

So much of our smartphone use is mindless, she said. We open the phone to do one thing, and then wind up checking five apps in a loop — and then do it all again a few minutes later.

“You really want to tackle the habit formation process,” she said.

With that in mind, I created a designated spot for my phone at home — a little coffee table with a plant and a charger. I’ll keep it there when I’m not working, so that it’s not on my person all the time and I can’t thoughtlessly paw at it. That’s where it will live at night, too, so it’s not by my bedside disrupting my sleep. I hope the sense of well-being this brings suffices as an enforcement mechanism.

Some tech critics, however, are skeptical that individual strategies are the way forward.

“More and more people are starting to see that these platforms, these products are intentionally designed to be addictive,” said Camille Carlton, a policy manager at the Center for Humane Technology, a nonprofit in California founded by former tech employees to raise awareness about the negative effects of the kinds of products they worked on.

Ms. Carlton compared smartphones and social media apps to junk food and tobacco, and suggested that lawmakers should regulate the design of these products to protect our health. Britain’s rules for tech products aimed at children, discouraging the use of infinite scroll, autoplay and addictive design features such as Snapchat streaks, were “fantastic,” she said. (Similar laws in the United States have been challenged by tech companies as unconstitutional.)

For now, though, it’s up to us.

And if you decide to do a February Flip Phone detox, I’d love to hear about it: kashmir.hill@nytimes.com.

Audio produced by Tally Abecassis.

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How cell phones are killing our kids, and what we can do about it By Matt Villano, CNN

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt probably has become a pretty unpopular guy among teenagers over the last few weeks.

His new book, “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness,” essentially calls for a revolution in how parents administer smartphones and social media to their teens.



"The Anxious Generation" argues kids should have little or no access to smartphones or social media .

While some have questioned the science behind Haidt’s thesis, Haidt argues the perspective is informed by years of research — investigations that depict climbing mental health struggles among American tweens and teens, and statistics that indicate many teenagers in the United States already are depressed or anxious in some way.

The American Psychological Association echoed his concern in a new report that calls out social media platforms for designs that are “inherently unsafe for children.” The APA’s report, released Tuesday, says that children do not have “the experience, judgment and self-control” to manage themselves on those platforms. The association says burden shouldn’t be entirely on parents, app stores or young people — it has to be on the platform developers.

But parents probably can’t count on developers, which leads to Haidt’s jarring conclusion: We’re at a tipping point as a society, and if grown-ups don’t take action, they could risk the mental health of all young people indefinitely.

Haidt, the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, has spent countless hours publicizing the book’s message since its March 26 release. CNN recently talked with Haidt about his data, the book and what lies ahead for parents and teens alike.

This conversation has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

CNN: How did we get ourselves into this predicament?

Jonathan Haidt: Kids always had play-based childhoods, but we gradually let that fade away because of our growing fears of kidnapping and other threats in the 1980s and 1990s. What arose to fill all that time was technology. In the 1990s, we thought the internet was going to be the savior of democracy. It was going to make our children smarter. Because most of us were techno-optimists, we didn’t really raise alarms when our kids started spending four, five, six and now seven to nine hours a day on their phones and other screens.


What do you think?

The basic argument of the book is that we’ve overprotected our children in the real world and we’ve under-protected them online. And for both halves of that, you can see how we did that thinking that it was going to be OK. We were wrong on both points.

Social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt says parents have overprotected their children in the real world and not protected them enough online.

CNN: What is some of the most startling data you found?

Haidt: The one that comes immediately to mind was the discovery that teenage boys used to have by far the highest rates of broken bones before the great rewiring of childhood. Before 2010, teenage boys were much more likely than any other group to go to a hospital because they broke a bone. Once we get to the early 2010s, their rates of hospitalization plunge, so that now teenage boys are slightly less likely to break a bone than are their fathers or grandfathers. They’re spending most of their time on their computers and their video games, and so they’re physically safe. But I would argue that this comes at the cost of healthy boyhood development.



CNN: Does this mental health crisis affect boys and girls differently?

Haidt: The basic facts about gender differences are that when everyone got a smartphone in the early 2010s, boys went for video games and YouTube and Reddit, while girls went more for the visual social media platforms, especially Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr.

A second difference is that girls share emotions more than boys do. They talk about their feelings more, and they’re more open to each other. Girls’ levels of anxiety go up a lot in this period (the tween and teen years), as soon as they get hyper-connected to each other via social media.

Self-harm is a way that some girls have historically coped with anxiety, and those rates also went way up in the early 2010s. It used to be that (self-harm) was not a thing that 12- and 13-year-olds were doing, it was more older girls. In the 2010s, hospital emergency room visits (for self-harm) for 10 to 14-year-old girls nearly tripled. That’s one of the biggest increases in markers of mental illness that we see in all the data that I’ve reviewed.


CNN: You’ve said we’re at a tipping point in this crisis? Why?

Haidt: I think that this year is the tipping point for several reasons. In 2019, the debate was really getting started. Then Covid-19 happened, and that obscured previous trends. Now we’re a few years past Covid-19, past the school closures, past the masks, and what has become clear to everyone is that kids are not all right. And the data on rates of mental illness shows us that most of the increase was in place long before Covid-19 arrived.

Nowadays, in families across America, one of the biggest and most prevalent dynamics is fighting over technology. What I found since the book came out is that almost everybody sees the problem. Parents are in a state of despair. They feel like the genie is out of the bottle. They say, “You can’t put toothpaste back in a tube, can you?” To that, I say, “If you really have to do it, you’ll do it.”

When you look at the wreckage of adolescent mental health and you look at the increases in self-harm and suicide, you look at the declining test scores since 2012 in the United States and all around the world, I think we have to do something. My book provides clear analysis of the multiple collective action problems and of the four simple norms that will solve them.

Parents need to roll back the phone-based childhood and restore the play-based childhood, Haidt says.

CNN: What are the norms that will solve this crisis?

Haidt: No. 1: No smartphones before high school. We must clear them out of middle school and elementary school. Just let kids have a flip phone or phone watch when they become independent.

No. 2: No social media until 16. These platforms were not made for children. They appear to be especially harmful for children. We must especially protect early puberty since that is when the greatest damage is done.

No. 3: Phone-free schools. There’s really no argument for letting kids have the greatest distraction device ever invented in their pockets during school hours. If they have the phones, they will be texting during class, and they will be focused on their phones. If they don’t have phones, they will listen to their teachers and spend time with other kids.

No. 4: More independence, free play and responsibility in the real world. We need to roll back the phone-based childhood and restore the play-based childhood.




Teens are exhausted by phone notifications but don’t know how to quit, report finds

CNN: Rethinking smartphone privileges is a huge departure for many families. How do you convince parents to buy in?

Haidt: Elementary school is easy. If you’ve already given your kid a phone or their own iPad, you can take it away. Just be sure to coordinate with the parents of your kid’s friends so that your kid feels they’re not the only one. They can still have access to a computer; they can still text their friends on a computer. But if your kids are in elementary school, just commit to not giving them these things until high school.

Middle school is harder. Most middle school kids are entirely enmeshed in smartphones and social media. The key in middle school is to have some very severe time restrictions. The problem is the move from a couple hours of access a day to potentially having access all day long. That’s what does a lot of the kids in. Half of all American teens say they’re online almost constantly. If your kids already have these devices, I think you want to make some strict rules about when they have access to them.



CNN: What do you think will happen if we don’t change soon?

Haidt: Given that the rates of mental illness and self-harm and suicide are still going up, we don’t know where the limit is. We don’t know whether it’s possible to have 100% of our kids be depressed and anxious. We’re already getting close to half for the girls; we’re already in the ballpark of 30% to 40% having depression or anxiety, and about 30% currently say they’ve thought about suicide this year. Things are already really bad, and the levels could just continue to rise to the point where the majority of kids are depressed, anxious and suicidal.

This has enormous social implications, too. Because kids are somewhat gender-segregated online (they interact less with kids of the opposite gender), the situation is unconducive to heterosexual dating and marriage. I think the separation between genders and their rising rates of anxiety are going
to drive rates of marriage and heterosexual childbearing down much faster than they’ve been going — and they’ve been dropping for decades.


Lastly, I think there could be huge economic implications. Already, you have dozens of state attorneys general suing Meta and Snapchat because of the sheer amount of money that the states spend on psychiatric emergency services for adolescents. Another economic implication is that if we have one or two or three anxious generations where young people are afraid to take risks, our free market economy, our entrepreneurial culture, all the things that make the American economy so vibrant and dynamic will suffer. That’s why I think we have no choice. We (must) put a stop to this now.

[berlbalaguleh]

לענ"ד: איז די גאנצע סומאטוכע איבער דאס שעדליכקייט פון סמארטפאונס א "פאוני" אישו. (א שטיקל פא"ן. מיט א פ"א דגושה).

די מענטשן און גרופס וועלכע זענען אש להבה אקעגן דעם גאנצן באניץ פון סמארט פאונס טרייבן איבער. און זיי האבן אויך אן אגענדא. נאר כדי מחזק צו זיין זייער שיטה ברענגען זיי א ראיה אז "אפילו די גויים זעהען שוין אויך איין די שעדליכקייט פון סמארטפאונס".

דער אמת איז אז א סמארטפאון איז זייער א נוצליכע כלי און אויך פאטענציאל זייער געפערליך. ס'ווענדט זיך ווער דער באניצער איז. און וואס זיין צוועק צו האבן די כלי איז.
משל למה"ד. צו א קאר. דאס איז זייער א נוצליכע מאשין. נאר אויב א קינד אדער איינער וואס קען נישט דרייוון זעצט זיך צו צום רעדל שטעלט ער איין דאס לעבן פון זיך און אנדערע מענטשן. אויך ווען איינער איז אדדיקטעד דערצו. ער ליגט אין דעם א יעדע פרייע מינוט. דאס איז אויך נישט גוט.

מ'רעדט פון א נארמאלן, דערוואקסענעם מענטש מיט שכל הישר. און זיכער אן ערליכער איד איז נישט נחשד אז ער וועט גיין אויסזוכן נישט גוטע פלעצער און סייטס. ווען דער סמארטפאון ווערט באניצט פאר די ריכטיגע צוועקן איז דאס זייער נוצליך. סיי פאר תורה. למשל מ'דערמאנט זיך א פסוק אדער מאמר חז"ל. ביז א מינוט האט מען די פונקטליכע לשון מיט די מראה מקום. אויך ביי מילי דעלמא. סיי וואספארא אינפארמעישן א מענטש זוכט קען ער עס גלייך טרעפן.

ווען איינער וויל (ח"ו) אויס זוכן נישט גוטע זאכן און פלעצער קען ער דאס אויך טרעפן. נאר די גמ' זאגט שוין..."אטו בשופטני עסקינן?" רעדט מען דען פון א נישט נארמאלן מענטש?.

דער רמב"ם זאגט אויך..."אין החטא מצוי אלא בלב פנוי מן החכמה".

[די קעפעלע]

לענ"ד: איז די גאנצע סומאטוכע איבער דאס שעדליכקייט פון סמארטפאונס א "פאוני" אישו. (א שטיקל פא"ן. מיט א פ"א דגושה).

די מענטשן און גרופס וועלכע זענען אש להבה אקעגן דעם גאנצן באניץ פון סמארט פאונס טרייבן איבער. און זיי האבן אויך אן אגענדא. נאר כדי מחזק צו זיין זייער שיטה ברענגען זיי א ראיה אז "אפילו די גויים זעהען שוין אויך איין די שעדליכקייט פון סמארטפאונס".

דער אמת איז אז א סמארטפאון איז זייער א נוצליכע כלי און אויך פאטענציאל זייער געפערליך. ס'ווענדט זיך ווער דער באניצער איז. און וואס זיין צוועק צו האבן די כלי איז.
משל למה"ד. צו א קאר. דאס איז זייער א נוצליכע מאשין. נאר אויב א קינד אדער איינער וואס קען נישט דרייוון זעצט זיך צו צום רעדל שטעלט ער איין דאס לעבן פון זיך און אנדערע מענטשן. אויך ווען איינער איז אדדיקטעד דערצו. ער ליגט אין דעם א יעדע פרייע מינוט. דאס איז אויך נישט גוט.

מ'רעדט פון א נארמאלן, דערוואקסענעם מענטש מיט שכל הישר. און זיכער אן ערליכער איד איז נישט נחשד אז ער וועט גיין אויסזוכן נישט גוטע פלעצער און סייטס. ווען דער סמארטפאון ווערט באניצט פאר די ריכטיגע צוועקן איז דאס זייער נוצליך. סיי פאר תורה. למשל מ'דערמאנט זיך א פסוק אדער מאמר חז"ל. ביז א מינוט האט מען די פונקטליכע לשון מיט די מראה מקום. אויך ביי מילי דעלמא. סיי וואספארא אינפארמעישן א מענטש זוכט קען ער עס גלייך טרעפן.

ווען איינער וויל (ח"ו) אויס זוכן נישט גוטע זאכן און פלעצער קען ער דאס אויך טרעפן. נאר די גמ' זאגט שוין..."אטו בשופטני עסקינן?" רעדט מען דען פון א נישט נארמאלן מענטש?.

דער רמב"ם זאגט אויך..."אין החטא מצוי אלא בלב פנוי מן החכמה".

א הערה אויף אייער אנאליז.

קודם כל הוית עס איז דא אן אופן ווי אזוי ''נארמאלע'' מענטשן טראכטן און באוועגן זיך און א גרויס חלק איז געבויט אויף די פסעכעלאגישע יסודות פונעם מענטש, איז כידוע לייגן די TECH קאמפעניס אריין שווערע געלטער צו קענען אויסניצען די פיסכעלאגישע שוואכקייטן פון מענטשן צו ווערן אדיקטעד און דארפן זיין געבונדען אין טעכנעלאגיע אן אויפהער אפילו די געזונסטע מענטש ווערט compromised ווען מען רייט אויף זיין שוואכקייט.

בנוסף צו די כלל פון די תוה'ק און חז'ל זאגן אז די ''יצר לב האדם רע מנעוריו'' איז פאר א יעדעם איינעם, די יצר הרע פארגעסט נישט פון קיינעם און די זאכן זענען מושך א מענטש מיט געוואלד אויף גאר א שטארקע פארנעם (אביסעל מער ווי דרייווען א קאר ) אזוי וויט אז חז''ל האבן געוואלט אוועק לייגען די יצר הרע, און די אוהחה'ק און פרשת אחרי אויף כמעשה ארץ מצרים איז עס מסביר באריכות.

איז די עדיקשון צו technology נישט קיין סימן פון אן אבנארמאלע מענטש, נאר אדרבה א נארמאלע מענטש ווערט אריין געשלעפט און א טיפע בלאטע וואס ער וויל באמת נישט איינזינקען דערין. און אינגע מענטשן האבן נישט די כוחות אדער פארשטאנד צו פארשטיין די שעדליכקייט פון זייער choices

Tech companies use psychology to influence how we respond to our emotions. For example, Sean Parker, Facebook's ex-president, explained how Facebook exploits our fundamental need to belong: “It's a social-validation feedback loop... you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology”

קענסט ליינען מער פון די לינקע VOX

Tech companies use “persuasive design” to get us hooked
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/8/17664580/p ... psychology

What the evidence really says about social media’s impact on teens’ mental health
Did smartphones actually “destroy” a generation?
https://www.vox.com/24127431/smartphone ... tal-health

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א קאר קען טאקע זיין ניצלעך און שעדליך, אבער אלעס איז פאר'ן גוף, די שעדליכקייט פונעם סמארטפאון איז פאר'ן מוח און די נפש (איך מיין נישט דא יודשקייט), דאס ווערן דיסקענעקטעד מיט די עכטע מענטשהייט, און לעבן אין חלום לאנד א גאנצן טאג, און זיין אריינגעטוהן מיט אלעס אין די וועלט אויסער וואס איז נוגע פאר "דיין" לעבן, איז א חורבן נורא, אסאך אסאך ערגער ווי די פאטענטשעל גופניות'דיגע שעדליכקייט פון א קאר

[berlbalaguleh]

די קעפעלע און ווהאטעווער: דאס איז זיכער אז די אינפארמעישן פראדוצירערס און קאנטראלערס לייגן אריין זייער גאנצן וויסנשאפט וויאזוי צו ציען די אינטרעסע פון א מענטש. נאר א יעדער איינער פאר זיך. ספעציעל א ערליכער איד דארף האבן אזויפיהל קאנטראל אויף זיך אליין אז ער זאל נישט ווערן אדיקטעד צו דעם סמארטפאון אדער צו סיי וועלכע אנדערע עלעקטראנישע כלי.

איך זיץ נישט אויף דעם סמארטפאון. ווען איך דארף עפעס אינפארמעישן זוך איך עס ארויס און איך לייג עס אוועק.
אויך. אזוי ווי איך האב שוין געזאגט עטליכע מאל פון פריער אז אויב דער מענטש מאכט דאס נישט פאר דעם עיקר אין זיין לעבן דאמאלס איז עס נישט קיין פראבלעם. די פראבלעם הייבט זיך אן ווען א מענטש איז שטענדיג אריינגעטון אין זוכן און שפיעלן געימס אדער אנדערע אקטיוויטעטן און ער מאכט דעם פאון (אדער סיי וועלכע אנדערע כלי) פאר דעם סענטער פון זיין לעבן.

איך האב נישט קיין איין "געים עפפ." אויף מיין פאון. אדער אנדערע פארמס פון ענטערטעינמענט.

[סעגאל]

איך האב נישט קיין איין "געים עפפ." אויף מיין פאון. אדער אנדערע פארמס פון ענטערטעינמענט.

איז קאווע שטיבל פאר דיר אינטערטעינמענט אדער אינפארמעישן?

[berlbalaguleh]

אינפארמעישן: צו וויסן פונקטליך וואס טוט זיך אין די אידישע גאס (און וועלט). איך האב אויך הנאה פון די דעבאטעס און פארשידענע מיינונגען וועלכע ווערן אדורכגעלופטערט.

[די קעפעלע]

די קעפעלע און ווהאטעווער: דאס איז זיכער אז די אינפארמעישן פראדוצירערס און קאנטראלערס לייגן אריין זייער גאנצן וויסנשאפט וויאזוי צו ציען די אינטרעסע פון א מענטש. נאר א יעדער איינער פאר זיך. ספעציעל א ערליכער איד דארף האבן אזויפיהל קאנטראל אויף זיך אליין אז ער זאל נישט ווערן אדיקטעד צו דעם סמארטפאון אדער צו סיי וועלכע אנדערע עלעקטראנישע כלי.

איך זיץ נישט אויף דעם סמארטפאון. ווען איך דארף עפעס אינפארמעישן זוך איך עס ארויס און איך לייג עס אוועק.
אויך. אזוי ווי איך האב שוין געזאגט עטליכע מאל פון פריער אז אויב דער מענטש מאכט דאס נישט פאר דעם עיקר אין זיין לעבן דאמאלס איז עס נישט קיין פראבלעם. די פראבלעם הייבט זיך אן ווען א מענטש איז שטענדיג אריינגעטון אין זוכן און שפיעלן געימס אדער אנדערע אקטיוויטעטן און ער מאכט דעם פאון (אדער סיי וועלכע אנדערע כלי) פאר דעם סענטער פון זיין לעבן.

איך האב נישט קיין איין "געים עפפ." אויף מיין פאון. אדער אנדערע פארמס פון ענטערטעינמענט.

אשריך. קיפ איט אפ!

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