Smartphone Addiction and Health

These days when we are introduced to a new smartphone every month. People are now spending more time starting at their screens than living their lives. This smartphone addiction can lead to many health problems: finger muscle freezing, less focus on other tasks, poor eyesight, tired eyes, restlessness are only a few of the health-related problems that can ruin your otherwise healthy lifestyle.

But what do about that? We certainly cannot throw away our smartphones these days given how everything is connected and demands fast responses from us. In this article, we will talk about the some ways you can keep a lip on your smartphone addiction so your smartphone usage is just the right amount so it does not harm you.

Conquer yourself

Sometimes you may just look at your phone for no reason at all. According to various stats from smartphone websites such as gsmarena.com, an average person unlocks his phone about 150 times a day and mostly that is just for looking at the time or the notifications. Unnecessary checking of your phone like this can be very harmful and is exactly what leads to smartphone addiction. You want to see the time? Use your watch!

Learn the difference between important and unimportant notifications

Realize that your Instagram and Facebook notifications are not important. The important ones are your SMS, call and email notifications. When they happen, you will get notified and you won’t be missing. You do not have to look at your phone again and again for them. Facebook and Instagram, however, make you look at your phone screens unnecessarily. If you notice, Facebook notifications are mostly not important. The badge you see are from old notifications which disappear when you open the app, and that is exactly what the app wanted: that you open it and have a look at it. So realize this and learn to open it as minimum as possible.

Using the above methods, and many others is useful for overcoming your smartphone addiction so that you use your phone rather than your phone uses you!