The article “Studying Problems, not problematic usage: Do mobile checking habits increase procrastination and decrease well-being/” by Adrian Meier dives into how smartphones have created procrastination habits due to the addiction and the constant notifications.
One of the topics covered in the article that I am sure everyone can relate to is the urge to check for messages. My phone is never going crazy with messages. Maybe a handful of texts and a snapchat or two, but it is never anything crazy, yet whenever I put down my phone for a second my mind somehow convinces myself that I am going to have a plethora of messages.
The article covers it in the same way I explained my issues with it. It is a mental thing. It is a sense that you may be missing something, or someone has something important to tell you even though in the back of your mind you know there is not a single notification on your phone. It is a strange dependency we have formed with our smartphones that seems impossible to break.
The article discusses the impact of a simple notification which is another situation that I am sure everyone deals with as well. Let’s say you are at the library, and you have your phone on the next desk with you and you have been working hard for about fifteen minutes when your phone informs you that you need to breathe, or your music’s volume is violently loud.
That simple dumb notification is enough to throw you way off course and I am known I am not the only one. Your phone lights up out of the corner of your eye any your initial reaction is just to grab it. You read the pointless notifications and then you open your phone.
You start wondering what your friends are up to. You check snapchat and there is nothing exciting on there, so you check Instagram. That app has nothing that interests you either, but for some reason you keep scrolling and scrolling and… scrolling. An ad pops up for the dumbest phone game you have ever seen, but you download it because it seems somewhat entertaining. While the app is downloading you decide to check Tik Tok. Tik Tok’s perfect algorithm keeps you around for nearly thirty minutes when you tell yourself it is time to focus and put the phone down, but you just remembered you downloaded a new game and spend another fifteen to twenty minutes with that before you finally put the phone down.
Next thing you know you have been at the library for nearly two hours, and you have down fifteen minutes of homework. We have all been thee. If you say you haven’t, you are lying.
It something I have been trying to work on, but it is hard. When I get home, I try to put my phone in my room and leave it there, but it is hard. This addiction is a serious problem that I am not sure our generation will ever break.
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