modern era addiction

We work longer hours each year. Also, we spend an average of three hours each day using our smartphones. Half of us would rather suffer from a broken bone than a broken phone. That’s hilarious but true! Kids spend lot of time in front of screens that they struggle to interact with real, live humans.

Facebook has an endless feed; Netflix automatically moves on to next episode in the series. Instagram encourages keeping swiping. We benefit from these apps and websites but also struggle to use them in moderation.

Behavioral addictions are high in this century. Almost all of us are addicted to one or more behaviors. Addiction is produced largely by environment and circumstances. There isn’t a bright line between addicts and the rest of us. We’re all one product or experience away from our own addictions.

Technology offers convenience, speed and automation, but it also brings large costs. Human behavior is spending on that huge cost.

Addictive behaviors have existed for a long time, but in recent decades, they are in mainstream. These modern addictions don’t directly involve the intake of any substance. They don’t directly introduce chemicals in your system. But they produce the same effects because they are compelling and well designed. Some, like gambling and exercise are old, smartphone use is relatively new. But they’ve all become progressively more difficult to resist.

 Technology isn’t good or bad until wielded by the corporations that tailor it for mass consumption. In many aspects, substance addiction and behavioral addictions are similar. They activate the same brain regions that likely to develop addictions.

Millions of recovering alcoholics manage to avoid bars altogether, but recovering from internet addicts can’t avoid it completely. The use of digital media is unavoidable in this modern age. So, staying away is not an option but finding other alternatives to be aware is important.

Meanwhile, once you understand how behavioral addictions work, you can mitigate their harm, or even harness them for good. Addictions are damaging because they crowd out other essential pursuits in life. There’s much we can do to regain the balance that existed before the age of smartphones and social networking.

What can we do to survive in this technology era of digital addiction?

By reverse engineering behavioral addiction, we can use addictive products to improve our lives. Thinking and then applying on how we communicate with each other, spend and save our money, balance between work and entertainment can change your addictiveness towards it.

In late 2010, Steve Jobs told in one of his interviews that his children had never used iPad. All the tech giants imposed similar restrictions. Chris Anderson, the former editor of WIRED, enforced strict limits on every device in his home. He says, ‘because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand.’ His five children were never allowed to use screens in their bedrooms.

Evan Williams, a founder of blogger, twitter bought hundreds of books for his two young sons but refused to give them an iPad. Lesely Gold, the founder of an analytics company, imposed a strict ‘no screen time during the week’ rule on her kids. She softened her stance only when they needed computers for schoolwork.

Several video game designers agreed that they avoided the notoriously addictive game world.  It seemed as if these people were following the cardinal rule of drug dealing: never get high on your own supply.

An exercise addiction psychologist called fitness watches are dangerous and swore that she’d never buy one. The founder of internet addiction clinic told that she avoids gadgets newer than three years old. Also, she has never used her phone’s ringetone , and deliberately ‘misplaces’ her phone so she isn’t temped to check her mail.

The list of addictions is longer than it’s ever been in human history. Compared to the clunky tech of the 1990s and early 2000s, modern tech is efficient and addictive. Understand the problem and evaluate with your own mental powers. Secure your children and their bright future. Secure yourself from being the victim of modern world addiction.

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