This is the biggest problem in our lives. I have read more than 250 novels and I have not been able to finish even 5 novels in the last 3 years because I cannot focus.
YT vacuums more comments than it allows to be seen. That means your time is doubly wasted. Yet, there's that chance your conscience will live to be seen and hopefully, something intelligent will reply and make you feel relevant somewhere.
I had Cold Turkey Blocker installed on my PC, and it kept statistics on my usage in the background. In six months, I had used days worth of my life on RU-vid. ENTIRE DAYS in total. 3-4 hrs a day. It’s something I have struggled with for years now
you guys are doing very important work! i am a Millennial, didnt get a computer until 14, didnt get internet until 17, didnt get a cellphone until 19, didnt get a smart phone until 25 in 2009. i remember how we hung out with friends, played N64, Dreamcast, PS2 together next to our friends laughing and enjoying each others company. chatted and meet people in real life. now i look around every one is constantly on their phone. and Gen A looks like they have serious brain impairments and dysfunction because of overstimulation. the future is looking very dire if society keep going down this path
@Cyoulaterbud I used to think the same.. it's called "the generational gap". But none of the previous generations bashed on eachother for something as addictive as a phone. The lack of social development skills is astonishing this time..this time is different.
When I was a kid my parents always complained about me watching TV or playing video games. Now as an adult, I go over to their house and they literally watch Fox News all day
My ex's boomer parents would complain about us staying in the bedroom watching youtube and playing games together for hours at a time. Yet every time I was at his place his dad was watching tv for the entire evening and he was always rewatching the same movies he'd already seen 100 times.
Disabling notifications works amazingly well btw Also- only use social media/ youtube on a desktop or laptop that you can walk away from and it doesn't live in your pocket the vast majority of the time
That's exactly what I did as my most used social media app was by far RU-vid and there were plenty of sundays where I stayed for so long in bed while watching numerous videos until I finally took some action and deleted that sh*t. There's no other social media app left on my phone since that day except instagram because you cannot separate your DM's from all the other useless crap you're offered there but I at least turned off all of instagram's notifications except the ones for DM's. I only use RU-vid on my computer now, turned off YT Shorts via a chrome extension, and i'm fine with that. It may not be the perfect solution but my consumption of RU-vid videos has noticeably declined compared to the amounts i've been watching on my phone before. I'm glad that I at least never got caught by all the equivalents of short videos such as TikTok (yeah yeah, f**k you TikTok!), Reels and Shorts. I hate social media and what it has done to our minds.
Excellent PSA. Very hard to have a conversation with my Wife or Daughter if they have their phones with them. Daughter practically runs away, just telling me anything I want to hear to get rid of me, so she can be alone with the phone. I'm scared to see the next 2 GENs.
If I didn't need a phone I wouldn't have one. I was more than happy with a landline but it got too expensive plus I didn't use it to call that many people. I hate cell phones, modern technology and social media with a passion.
My toddler daughter doesn’t care for the tablet luckily. Hoping it stays that way. Neither me or her dad have social media etc maybe that plays a role we just keep ourselves busy and she sees that
This video exactly portrays my life, even my girlfriend's name is Raquel (the person who appears in the missed calls), and I have the same phone model. I will take this as a sign from Jesus to stop, God bless you for this video
As humans we’re naturally distracted by something. Just make sure that something isn’t harming you in the long run. Limit phone usage by staying busy with hobbies, people, or a job.
Jobs aren't better. People who define themselves by their job are mostly unaware that they're selling their lives to make someone else rich. At least you do hobbies and relationships for your own fulfillment and those of people who care about you.
FANTASTIC VIDEO! Highlights the issues most of us go through, phone addiction is absolutely real and it’s sad that all ages go through it. Before smartphones, people were genuinely a lot happier and healthier. It’s time to reconnect to the real world that’s around you and not the small screen in your hand. People seem to forget that reality and staring into your smartphone are two different worlds.
I agree. I often sit back and think how happier and how sociable people used to be. How times change and not for the better. I was stood at a bus stop one day last year. I happened to ask some young lasses that were stood there if they knew what time it was. I got no response and as I glanced at them, they all had those stupid ear buds in. The world could have been on fire and they'd have not noticed. Stupid cell phones are the worst thing that ever came out along with social media.
@@vanessahenderson1850 yes, in the world we live in now, ignorance is at a all time high. The constant ping ping ping sounds of those phones from any kind of notification possible. They want us glued to our screens for as long as possible so it benefits those social media apps. If we get something for free (Facebook, instagram ect.) it isn’t actually free and we pay with it with our privacy. Companies sell our data. But, yes going back to what you said just now, all the younger generation are absolutely fixated to their phones and their brains have been just leeched by the phones. I decided not to use my phone and just the my train journey naturally without anything distracting me, that 1 hour break I had from my phone felt so refreshing and I feel like I could focus more.
Putting a phone in front of a kid to stop crying is dopamine abuse to be honest. You end up teaching the kid to only care about a phone and and nothing else. What ends up happening is that the kid will cry whenever he doesn’t have a phone😂
proud to say I've been actively lowering my phone app usage especially for social media began using the app limits for iphones and I am keeping tik tok usage to strictly around 30 minutes a day gonna keep pushing from here
Not only smartphones, but all kinds of Screens. Pc, Tv, Vr. Turn it fucking off and you have time for work, trainings, hobby, family, friends etc. You become this "Lucky Guy" from this video.
Yep. Amen. Turn off ya PC. Read a book. Go to a tavern and talk to folks over a drink if you can handle the booze. Go for a walk. Call family up out of nowhere. We need this more than ever.
Depends on the game. Some games these days layer on mechanics just to make them appear sophisticated, but I don't want to have to take a night class to learn to play a game. Doom was simple but you could play it over and over. Civilization 2 was great and not so complicated as the newer games. SimCity 2000...etc. Basically the greatest games ever made are chess and go, and both have simple rules that evolve into complexity, instead of just hammering you with thousands of details before you start.
@@BadaBadger I can play a game for 2 hours before switching to another one. Never addicted though because I can leave the game whenever I must or if a friend gives a call to hang out.
The keeping your phone in another room bit is massive - there's only so much an app timer can do when it's relatively easy to modify it or add crazy amounts of time "for the day." That said, think the thing that helped me the most is having a screen timer on my home screen, as well as setting modes based on where I'm at. Like, if I'm at the office, most of all my apps are disabled so I can focus on my work. Or at 11 PM, my phone "goes to sleep" and makes everything black and white to remind me to start powering down.
_I know people like this. The best decision I did was quitting those pay-to-win gaming apps. Then I started limiting my phone usage to 2 hours per day. Then I started going on dates. Now I'm married to a 10 and near the top of my organization. The phone is society's cancer. Lose the cancer and get a wife!_
My coworkers (Zoomers) be like... I'm a millennial, born in '93, so I'm not really into TikTok or Instagram. I only check Instagram once a week for a few minutes to see what people send me, I like Facebook because some anime memes, but I hate that Facebook shows me content that I'm not following, I prefer to watch long videos on RU-vid while I’m working. Phones have become social media platforms rather than communication devices since 2013.
I'm doom scrolling for hours everyday, my attention span dropped like crazy. Sometimes i literally slap my face to put the phone down. My gf is addicted to her phone as well, almost everyone i know is addicted including my family. Thanks for the video, i will overcome this
Great video man. Hit home for me as a newer father who’s trying to make sure his son doesn’t become a screen junkie as my wife and I were starting to have those concerns. You know it starts off as well let’s try to turning this show or movie on for him and see if he’ll calm down. Then it just kinda became routine and got to the point where he would throw a tantrum if we didn’t turn the tv on. We’ve cut back on the tv time now and thankfully he’s still rather young so he’s easily entertained 😄
9 months ago, on December 22nd, 2023, I decided that doom-scrolling wasn't going to take control of my life, so I quit it. Before that day however, I was watching around 400 Shorts per day. 1 week later and it was down to zero. Ever since then I could now watch 30+ min videos and found an Interest too. I suggest you quit too if you hadn't and...just hang in there. Wish you all the best!
The truth is that the problem is not related to phones, but rather to people’s excessive negative use of them. Phones really have a lot of positives that we all ignore. We use 30 percent of the positives and 80 percent of the negatives.❤
Those time limits are really hand at the beginning. Never had Tiktok or X, but Instagram was eating my time, so I just started with 30 min a day, my time on the app reduce, them I start to run on Facebook, so I deleted it. Now from time to time I get my self wondering on the phone looking for something for about some seconds, them I notice that I actually don't have nothing to do with it so I put it on the side and go to something else. But I'm was born in 90, I wasn't raise on screen, beside television or video games. But I notice my nephew and my best friend daughter been raise on mobile, they can't read but they can open youtube or tiktok since the apps have logos, somehow they think that is extraordinarily and their kids are way more evolved them their selfs. Anyhow, feel pity for those kids.
Don't give up your phone! Just learn to make it work for you, not the other way around. Deactivating ALL notifications and deinstalling social media apps sure is good advice. Always have a small book in your backpack and read that if you're bored in the bus or train. At home, put the phone away after 10pm.
5:45 I have an objection on rule #4. In case you stuck in bedroom or bathroom due to malfunctioning lock or fire or earthquake; having phone with you would save your life.
Nice work , this video shows that it’s never too late to stop your addiction at something bad for your mental and physical health especially social media addiction which allows u to spend more time in it without knowing effectively how dangerous Is it .
Kids that solely grew up on the phone are reason why they always grow up with behavioral issues. I can say that because I grew up with a phone, but my parents always told me to set it down when it’s too much, and if I don’t I would receive punishment These days parents rarely do that, and just hand over a phone to have the kid do the raising by themselves without the parents doing the effort. It’s why you see kids raging at the sight of taking the phone away, and it’s truly a shame that the new generation has that kind of conundrum
The message of this one is really important. I don't have social media anymore (for more than 2 years now) and what was a very important realization for me is: It is normal to have free time which may appear boring without a phone, but that is totally normal. Step by step you need to fill these void with healthier habits. It will be a long journey, I myself have much to go, but at least I can say that I do something about the bad habit. You can do it too!
This is so relatable. I have a big youtube addiction. I put myself a time limiter but I fail every god damn time. Maybe I need to delete youtube, idk. But what I know I will successfully beat the addiction one day
My parents did this to me back in the early 2000s the first iPad ever released give it to me. I was like a kid, now I at my 20s depressed anxiety mental health issues because I struggle socialising with people only kid in anime, a lot of bullying happens, yeah thanks mom and dad
I managed to quit my phone addiction since 2022! Only I have installed Whatsapp like social media, It's hard but I wanted to change my life. The time I spent on FB, Instagram, TikTok or whatever, now I use it for studying English, reading, meditation, gym, study about nutrition or anything that interests me. I watch your videos to practice my listening skills in English. Thank you, your effort is my proud!!! 😎
"Hereby I swear that i will cure my phone addiction. In one month I will look back at this video proudly and free from my addiction". 3 years later: 😂😂😂 Brilliant!!
Keep up the great work bud! Keeps getting better. Also, quitting FB and other apps can 💯 percent help a persons mental health alot. Personal experience.
