Technology has simplified and automated our lives in more ways than one. With a touch of a button, for example, you can push out content to thousands, if not millions depending on your influence and reach.
Sadly, the flip side is that more and more people are becoming digital zombies – a term used to describe excessive usage of digital technology and/or social media to a point that the individual becomes fixated only in that faux reality.
A number of reports suggest that excessive use of technology is capable of causing health issues such as depression, negative mood swings, increased impulsiveness, eye problems and many more. Such reports basically lay credence to the saying that too much of everything is bad.
Digital addiction is not restricted to users in developed countries alone but cuts across many others. One basic reality we should all have at the back of our minds is that, it is very easy to become addicted to technology without realising it; not with all the number of tech devices at our disposal right now.
It is a common sight today to find people engaging in important activities such as driving, yet they fiddle with their phones at the same time disregarding all the important safety notices against such a practice.
I have read reports of people who died in road accidents or fell over a bridge and died because they got consumed with whatever they were doing on their devices.
Stories of young adults crushed to death by trains in different parts of the world have been told and why you may ask? In most cases, these youths had their head phones on, forgetting every other thing within their vicinity and walked to their deaths, not hearing the blazing horn of on-coming trains.
This is a horrid example of what addiction can do to you. This and many other examples like another person falling off a bridge under similar circumstances are more than enough reasons to start raising awareness on this type of addiction with a view to nipping it in the bud, especially among our youths.
A lot of other examples of digital addition abound. With technology, for instance, entertainment, especially, online, is now two for a penny. Some people are being entertained to the detriment of work. This leads to low productivity. This is the exact opposite of what technology is supposed to achieve for us.
The question now is; what can we do to reduce digital addiction to the barest minimum?
One of the ways to reduce digital addiction is to fix your daily schedule and work strictly to — Finish Reading on the Punch
