Telefonafhængighed og novelleanalyse af 'Ude på vandet'

In a video from a news channel called 60 minutes they talk about a couple of different topics within the question “are we addicted to our phones?”.

They speak about the anxiety related to our phones in many different aspects, mostly how it can give anxiety not looking at your phone for an extended period of time, doesn’t have to be a long period of time, 15 minutes is enough, sometimes even less. But why does it give anxiety? Because it’s specifically designed to do so by both the phone companies such as Apple, Samsung, Huawei and many more, but also the people who make the different apps you may use in you daily life. A great example of such apps are social media (snapchat, Instagram, Facebook etc.) but why would they want people to get anxiety from using their products? Because that’s how they earn money, from people being active on their app, via ads of all sorts, some you don’t even notice actively but some your brain only notices subconsciously. A snapchat makes you stay on their app is with their not so new anymore feature called “streak”, where the concept is that you get a streak point with a contact you “snap” every day. You can’t use the points for anything other than showing off your highest streak to your friends. Almost everyone who seriously holds there “snap streaks” send at least 2 snaps per day just saying “streak” or maybe even just “s” just to hold up that streak for as long as possible. Keep in mind it doesn’t give you any actual benefits, except bragging rights. Another way your phone makes you anxious is cyber bullying, because it’s so easy to just sit behind your little screen and say whatever you want to and about other people. Yet another thing to consider, is the vibrating notification coming from your pocket ever so often, to make sure you look at the phone for at least a little bit, all the time. Is there anything we can do about it? Not a single thing because we are as the title of this suggest we are already hooked on our phones most of all humans who have some sort of contact to, even just semi-advanced technology. And until the technology downfall more and more people will walk around as some sort of zombie, only difference is instead of wanting brains… We want likes on our latest Instagram, Facebook or Twitter post.