Why we should rethink our relationship with the smartphone | Lior Frenkel | TEDxBG
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Lior Frenkel explains why being hooked to our Smartphones is the most interesting - yet silent - addiction of our times. Supposing the Smartphone is here to stay, he urges us to become aware of the addiction - and discuss how a digital diet should look like - a moment before technology becomes a part of our physical bodies.
Lior Frenkel is Co-Founder and CEO of the nuSchool, and the founder of UNDIGITIZE.ME - a social project dealing with Smartphone addiction. He also writes and speaks about the digital world and the Y-Generation (Wired Magazine, Web Summit).
Lior has graduated from the Technion (B.Sc) and has an MA in Philosophy and History of Science and Ideas from Tel-Aviv Uni.
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Cell phone addiction is a real thing. If you have a hard time believing this, simply go to a movie and watch how many people are on their phone. Go to any restaurant and just watch or even better, next time you're in a car, just look at the driver in any car next to you. It's completely OUT OF CONTROL.
dude
I remember like 4 years ago(I'm 13) I was at a swimming lesson
and I decided for some reason that I wanted to count all the people on their phone
Guess what
Literally everyone was on their phone
yeah
I'm lucky to not have a phone yet
I can’t constantly look at the driver next to me because I’m usually the one driving but, if I notice someone who looks distracted I always make an effort to look and see if they’re on the phone. 9 times out 10 they’re on the phone!
@@rayanrizwan9611 yeah my parents didn't allow me to have technology till 13. None the less I wish I never had a phone to begin with.
Sad times now! Go out with friends and see that friends are always glued to their phones. Days without the smartphone were so nice, hope those days come back.
ive noticed too everywhere i go people are looking at their phones its bizarre
I love to play outside and whenever i think of doing so with my friends, its just dissapointment. Cause they're always on their phone. I just feel like saying, can't you guys just throw those away. Lets play some badminton or football, or something as simple as card games. I love cards, here lemme show you some card magic.
I don't take out my phone at school unless it's necessary, and I need to be picked up for a club or something of the sort. I have noticed it too, believe me it sucks. I just bring a book to school and read it at lunch.
@@zakiahmed2017 yeah :/
Its ridiculous
I am 50 years old. I remember the world before computers and smart phones. I miss those simpler times. I am so glad you are speaking on the subject of smart phone use addition.
computadora si smartphones no
I'm 34 and also remember it. Many fond memories before smart phones were a thing. Even the first mobile phones were great, i could call and txt me friends but that was it (no internet, no mobile data etc). I remember when I first got online in the late 90's, what a great time! No Facebook, no social media, lots of interesting unique content. Nowadays it seems like I just visit the same few enormous sites.
Sing it, Laura!
I didn't grow up with any of this...you can live without it...pretend it's 1983👍🌈
I was just having this conversation recently with a friend. I am 29 years old; I got MySpace around age 12. I got my first smart phone (I think) around 2011 or 2012. I barely remember a life before social media, and only a little bit of a life before having a cell phone. At least with MySpace I could only log on while at home on the desktop. It makes me sad that there are now those who have never known a life with social media and smart phones. Of course a lot of good has come from this technology, but it also makes me wonder what would have been different in my life without it. I remember being extremely depressed for all of my teenage years and early 20s, too.
I am bed ridden with a neurological disease. Smart phones and tablets have given me a chance to communicate with all the people I can’t see and with the family I love. The big problem is the people I live with are becoming distant and have their electronic smart products on while with me. So the people that are far away are closer and the people which are the closest have become distant. For me smart phones and tablets are Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in one machine.
How you doing today Anthon?
You hit the nail on the head with the distance thing 👌
Get well soon brother
@@ANUJKUMAR-jl6ns Thank you so much, I ask you for a little prayer. Have a nice day, thank you
@@m4ckm4n59 Hi I just saw your message. My wife abandoned me and my mom was diagnosed with cancer. I have had to care for her in my situation which has been very difficult and complicated . Thank you for asking, God bless you
I gave my smart phone away 3 years ago and went back to a land line. I have a desk top for computer usage/social media/checking email ... but have to be home from work, done with chores, etc. in order to go on line.
Have you gone back to using a smart phone?
I'm not using my phone.
My phone is using me.
keep your phone off then will find better out of it
Talha Javaid it's an addiction, we can't
I feel you
Maybe this can help with this digital distraction problem? www.kickstarter.com/projects/1768727825/tome-a-timer-locked-case-for-smart-devices
In that case you're like 95.75% of phone users.
I think it is very important to put the phone down and have dinner with your family every day. Talk to each other and don't rush off to get back on the phones or computers. I find it relaxing :)
Living Free Forever - Melody & Ric Schafer my family doesn’t allow me to use phone when we are eating, or I’ll be slapped in the face
@@r0llc4ll66 thats how it should be
I remember the "day conversation died"...it was about ten years ago...I was at a dinner party and it was the first time I noticed people setting down their new iPhones right beside their dinner plates...and sure enough, the phones started to dominate the dinner, with people picking them up, taking about them, talking about apps..and at the moment, something died for me..I felt the lurching into this new age, this new reality where social settings were not going to ever be as intimate has they had been, and they never have been. I rarely go to dinner with people anymore, because the phones always come out. I have also had to let two friends go because they were constantly on their phones when we would go out.
hace 10 años no habia smarphones los smarphones comenzaron sobre el 2012 o asi primero con el wasap
@@luismiguelmartinezsanchez4069 did you realize don't you that that was 10 years ago?!
Sadly the rush of the phone and information coming at you online shopping Etc feeds are endorphins to the point where the less emotionally educated that's the word I'm going to use allow themselves to be sucked into it and throw living human being so in relationships with them by the wayside. I struggle with this with my husband have a beautiful caring affectionate woman and sometimes I get literally pushed away because I'm interrupting his screen time
I stayed a month withou my phone and it was the best thing ever!! Probably gonna do this again real soon
+Aakash Karnavat Meanwhile, I'm old enough to remember time when there was no teevee.... we read books and played outside and everyone was healthy and not fat instead of like now, when everyone is poisoned, has asthma, alzheimers, diabetes, autism and/or ADHD.
Aakash Karnavat It was kind of hard at the beginning, but once I got used to it, it was amazing!! I've learned to communicate better and I became more sociable! I highly recommend :)
Ps: sorry for my poor grammar, I'm from Brazil
Amazing
I've never even owned a smartphone yet. To begin with it was because I couldn't afford it, but now I don't even want one.
biasandoval1 even I want to live without it. salute 2 u.
most common addiction. People don't even know what they are up to. GREAT talk
"Loss of tissue volume in the brain." Smart phones are crippling society by design. We simply must wise up and withdraw from this addictive pastime.
I have seen parents preoccupied with smart phones at the expense of child neglect. It truly grieves me.
May God have mercy and deliver us.
Interesting! there are just few people who are really interested on talking about this kind of issues.
I once didn't use my smartphone for 3 to 5 days because at that period of time my eyes hurt, and it happened to be the best feeling I've ever had ever since I grew up. Now I'm switching to traditional phone and only turn on smartphone to use it if I really need to. Basically I'm treating my smartphone as a "tool" just like other things now. Highly recommend whoever saw this comment try to do these things like me too! It'll better your life and experience 1000x I promise:)
Watching endless zombies entranced all around me - it's like witnessing the death of society and that is getting me down.
fr, go anywhere and you will see the majority of people like zombies on their phone.
OMG.. it's a damn shame. Human interaction is becoming extinct.
@@dangerusscurvs4709 hey
so you 16 now?
Thx for that. I'm tired of going to hangouts where all people do is look at their snapchat or Instagram feed. I'm happy that there are people in the world who look at the world before they look at their screens.
gave up my note 2 for an old pseudo BlackBerry without any internet capabilities and I feel so much more immersed in my life. This is a great tt, its so true.. smartphones make the bad moments less bad, but I feel now I wasnt ever enjoying life to the fullest with my phone tying me down.. idk. just my experience
Low smart phone diet🤗 when you learn to control your phone and the internet, you will experience more freedom and less anxiety. Get more stuff done and use technology the smart way (e.g to start a business).
Lifestyle Design Success Totally agree with you, can also be used for education purposes ☺
More people need to watch this... on their computer
the whole damn world is sucking on cellphones 24/7 like a pacifier and we're asking .. " is it an addiction" !!!! brilliant
That’s the best comparison about iPhones!
when my friends and I come together nobody uses their smartphones, some of us don't even have one,but we talk to each other all the time, we are Seniors with a lot of things to tell, and sometimes we all talk at the same time. Over dinner , or just sitting around. Good old stories,some of them we heard maybe a few times already, but so what. If people used their "smartphones" all that would be lost,and wherwould you hear the laughter or compassion or feeling from your friends. Hildy M.
This is important to share with teenagers! Thank you, Lior Frenkel!
And adults
this is a talk I needed in a long time. I wanted to make a diet, not an unplugging.
Someone did a restaurant study about 'turnaround times' of the tables; they found out that people taking pictures of their food and talking about the pictures and emailing the pictures to friends and putting them up on Yelp was causing them to spend a half hour more at each table, ruining turnover times for the restaurant owners and thus their 'yelp' reviews as well as incomes... hey everybody, no one wants to see the picture of your lunch... or for that matter, you in your dirty bathroom mirror with all your clutter behind you...
Damn right
Is that really still a thing taking pics of your food? I don't really use social media so I don't know
Look at Yelp or Google reviews of restaurants. Yup, people take pictures of their food... same people who take selfies of themselves. Narcissism is rampant.
Erm... How would you take a selfie of anything but yourself?
i think selfies are so narcissistic its a pathetic behaviour imo
the smarter our phones get the stupider we get, kids nowdays don't have to learn how to write, they have spell check, who needs math, they have calculators, who needs history, they have google to look up anything
Tatersalad19 Cars *Math* is a lot more than just calculators, and calculators existed before smartphones anyway.
Besides, children still have to learn these things in school (even if they're probably going to forget most of it). Also, spell check isn't that good and history is not just knowledge about what happened
Malorie Sims. Example pls
Tatersalad19 Cars that’s actually true. My brother is in 4th grade and he doesn’t know how to write in cursive and I learned in 3rd grade. I’m math, my teacher switched up our do now and we had to do long division. It was crazy how many of my classmates didn’t know how to do something that simple
For a deeper understanding of this topic, Theodore Blazel's "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" is an invaluable read. I was genuinely impressed by it.
Oh my dear what kind of presentation? really i'm admired with how you focus on things in depth. thank you so much! let i start my struggle to be a solution finder of the addressed problem.
Top notch!!
I deleted instagram profile and twitter.I am going to delete and fb profile too.
The real life is out there and no at smartphones!!
Did that too. Want to delete Instagram too and some other apps!!
But can you delete UA-cam?
twitter saved me the trouble of deleting my app because they banned me for being passionately leftist
MR YUP I couldn’t because I have to learn, but when I’m about to learn sth new from yt, I always spend 4-5 hours without realizing , such a waste of time
Yay!
Love the Day of Unplugging ...
Shabbat!!!! 25 hour unplug-
Love,
Hashem
Great talk. I am definitely addicted to my phone and social media and am on a journey to reduce that, which is why I came to this video. I have permanently deleted most social media. The thing is, I turn my addiction elsewhere on my phone which is frustrating. For example I was addicted to Twitter, so I deleted it. Then to Instagram, so I deleted it. Then to Snapchat … you get the idea. I think I’ve narrowed it down to being anxious of my own thoughts and addicted to external validation. In fact I noticed that most (if not all) social media has an external validation feature built in - Facebook likes, Instagram hearts, Reddit upvotes, etc.
The flip side is I worked as an emergency 911 operator and I know how much safety these phones can provide. So I can’t go completely without one, even when camping I need to have cell service because I’m paranoid about a fire, medical emergency, etc. But finding a balance between using this as a tool and addiction is difficult for me.
Great video. I am quite aware of phone addiction, and I see it all around me. I feel like I have changed my smartphone behavior; however, I still take my phone with me and feel annoyed when the battery's about to run out. I see the importance to reduce the use a lot less, though. I see it in my classroom too; Kids spend many hours seeing adults use smartphones or using smartphones themselves.
I love going camping in upstate NY! The area we go to has spotty cell service, with LTE being rare, and the WiFi at the campground is barely enough to load a gps route. It’s nice to take a brake from the constant pull of the phone. We still take them but the internet service is almost unusable thus turning it back into a phone for calling and texting. Of course we still use them for a camera an have offline maps and music but that’s about it.
A great video. I escaped the Smartphone Zombie Apocalypse last year, and life has been so much better ever since. Finally I can say that I am “Hands Free”
I just got the 3310 today and I truly love it. No Apps, oh yes, no Distractions, oh yes, actual real conversation with friends. Rewinding technology back to a time when we actually used to communicate with each other, and not stare endlessly down to the ground, lost in a 4 inch screen, works very well for me.
If I was quitting smoking, I wouldn't keep a packet of cigarettes next to my bed. Smartphone addiction is much the same, only slightly easier to break. Breaking my own addiction and being free of it was my best decision of 2018.
As a street artist for 6 years, it is very, very sad to see what it has done to us. Like a bullet to the eyes, heart, spirit, and soul. There is almost zero "Real interaction" these days. Look down the train station platforms, bus stations, bars, cafe's etc, etc. All you see is the vast majority of people completely disconnected from each other, and reality.
In Smartphone world we miss each other, and the possibility of "Real" conversation and real friendship. We miss nature, and we are rarely present in our surroundings.
Please come back to the "Real" world. You don't know what you are missing!
I switched off my phone halfway watching this..means this video actually helps!
Ps:do try this yourselves😊
finally someone actually talks about how fucked up smartphones are.
Personally, I leave my phone at home unless I am traveling well outside my city.
ive started doing the same recently i think it solves problems like tracking and snooping and you do realise the addictive nature of these devices and appreciate a break from these so called benefits they give
This was one of the best and most relevant TED talk I heard.
Awesome! Must listen.
MINDBLOWING, but deep inside we already know
Thumbs up if you're watching this on your smartphone
Natty Ryan chrome cast from my phone to tv
im watching on my macbook pro but yes ironic hey
No. I intend to get rid of mine.
I put my phone in my bag with the ringer turned off. When I leave for my lunch break I check it for messages. Then I put it away. Then I check it before I leave to go home. And then when I get home I turn it off and put it in a drawer.
So true. I will make changes for sure.
I work the Graveshift
In my workplace the smartphones are making people so addicted that the group gets very loud, obnoxius and downright very rude to others when they are told to be quiet by Management.
Worst part is Management does nothing about it...i have to deal with this every single day and don't get me wrong I love Technology, but it is getting out of hand
I feel sad when I am spending time with someone whose company I enjoy and that person is on his phone. It doesn’t matter if we’re having a conversation or not. Even if there are silences while spending time with someone which are bound to happen. I still don’t like it because it makes me wonder if perhaps he finds me uninteresting. It’s rude in general but if someone you like does this…it doesn’t matter if you’re on a date or if it’s friendship, it can make you feel rejected.
Very interesting and even more relevant after 7.5 years
everything in moderation ppl moderatttioiiioioiiiionn
Amazing video. Thanks for sharing
In 1999 using the phone was about talking mostly so it can be rude in public space. Now we text and tap more so we are absent but at least we are not loud :-)
Good point
@@mryup6100 No, now you turn on the speaker while putting the damn phone in your shopping cart so you have two hands free.
I like this guy! Great presentation 👏
Very good presentation.
The things you own, end up owning you
I didn't get a mobile phone until I was 46, and that wasn't a smartphone. I got one of these when I was 56, and for the longest time I used it only as clock and to take calls. Last year I upgraded to a smartphone with a larger screen though mostly the apps used were camera, clock and public transport timetables. But I only did that because I was traveling back to my home city to visit relatives. When I ride the buses and trains, I generally either read a magazine or or book, look out the window, or chat with other passengers.
Glad I don't own a smartphone. I don't need one at all.
Mate. What sorcery is this?
It sounds less to do with an addiction to smartphones themselves then it being social media/communication addiction with smartphones being the new favourite medium to access those features.
This talk is 4 yrs old, but it’s so reliable
Very Inspiring ....
Yeah, i agree that a smartphone is an awesome piece of tech. If you know how to control it and use it, you'll be fine. bcoz we can learn many things from our smartphones. stop using social media.
the best thing about smartphones is being able to do business like driver licence or car registration renewals from home rather than travelling and standing in lines but i agree we should restrict our usage and reliance on these devices
Okay I going on Digital diet ie uninstalling crap app and turning off notifications for all except some important ones..
It may sound like a paradox, but I like computers, yet hate smartphones.
The reason is pretty easy: My computer allows me to solve my own problems, by writing a program. Which I often do
Smartphones, on the other hand, come preloaded with a lot of apps which seem to want to replace my own brain. I can do spatial navigation (well, I grew up with it), but someone growing up with Google Maps has no chance to learn that.
Old computers, like a C64 or a PDP-11, give you nothing more like blinking cursor. The machine waits for YOU to create the solution to a problem. Obviously you learn a lot with that. An iPhone teaches you nothing, apart from moving your fingers in a certain way.
Explains why there’s been a lack of innovation with my generation
You can be that innovation
Keep that "Online life" at home. It's simple. You don't need to be staring at that screen as soon as you wake up until you go back to bed. Do your stuff home and leave the baggage when you go outside and you will start to experience freedom. Your mental well-being will thank you for it.
A monment of mindfulness is like a holiday after smart phone addiction
Great thank you.
No, thank you sir for watching!
This needs more views
I have a Motorola Razr flip phone. I think its about 10 years old. I got it because it is Bluetooth compatible and does what I need a phone to do. I have computers at work and at home that are much easier to operate. Smart phones are a luxury I just don't get. I don't get Facebook either. I sent this in on a fax
Crazy Uncle Mike On a fax, haha
:D I still miss that old Razr!
Nothing changed from 2014, it still actual now.
I hate that people are so addicted to their phones they can't put them down while watching a movie together, or talking with someone face to face. It is so incredible rude and annoying to sit next to someone who said they wanted to watch a movie with you and they spend half the film scrolling through Facebook.
Insightful!
nice conclusion
it's really helpful!!!
Awesome
Tysm
The problem is screentime in general, from all sources; TV #1 in the list.
He should have touched on how many people die taking selfies every year. That's some scary stuff
ill have to search that on duck duck go lol
ive been slowly weaning off obsessively checking instagram every time i get a chance to, and ive made a choice to never be on my phone meanwhile eating :) working on it
The best change is to realise that your smartphone and WiFi is injuring your body and mind all the time.
This is exactly why there is no more good quality popular or rock music anymore ( I'm talking Princes, Michael Jacksons, David Bowies,Smiths, Pink Floyd,Led Zeppelin, Doors and on and on), because this generation is only able to operate a cell phone, only able to passivly experience life through it, and when they do do something, it's only to stroke their egos by taking selfies. Their creative lobe is withered and dried up. I miss music so much , long for the good old days. :(
ya worst thing that could have happened to our society., i hate my cell phone but yet i feel i need it for contacting people and getting things done #fml #addicted
The guys in the prision agree with this video.
I often leave my phone at home if I'm going out especially for my me time
Going back to a basic phone means less money spent on phone credit or phone bill, longer battery life, better concentration, feeling of freedom, better concentration. A chance to rediscover the good things in life
What a Smart man😍👌😊
he isnt
How is it look like for other who can't afford to have the Internet connection and smartphone and not knowing the use of smartphone? Thank
You just know there's gonna be comments from people watching this on their smartphone regarding the fact that they're watching this on their smartphone.
Irony - the ad before this was for a smart phone lol
Smartphones aren't bad, it's the social media that's bad.
I agrees with many points he made but I see 2 problems with that: first of all, phone usage is different among different people. When I ride th bus for example I used to read a book. Now I have ebooks on my phone and do the same thing, just digitally. If I stumble across interesting information I can write it down or search for additional facts etc.
Secondly, communicating online is a different type of communication. But that doesnt mean per se that it is bad. People used to write letters and talk around the camp fire, then a majority of communication was done via a regular house phone. That was also a drastic change and iam sure there are studies that show speaking over the phone is "worse" than talking to someone in person.
Also, being around people to often hinders my creativity and at times is stressful. When I am alone I can think much more freely l, don't get distracted by others and can focus much better. I like social gatherings and being around people but that in itself can be a distraction as well.
Smartphones have a real good chance of being the Mark of the beast
Are you religious?
Amen
Crazy for me to believe that 7 years ago, people were addicted to phones.
im back... 3 years later and I pose the same questions again.
What's your question sir?
@@mryup6100 HOw come we don't grab our toasters and crockpots every 2 minutes all day long every day ??
same question 4 years later ..again
Turn off your phone and make silence for days! Your body needs that, the silence has the power to understand what's happening to the world. Open your eyes to see truly.
Everyone has time to change!!!!!!!!
By the way, read, read and read every single day.
the irony is i wouldn't be watching this video without the iPhone or laptop screens
It’s very sad what the world is becoming!!!
When people ask me for my phone number they look startled when they figured out it's the prefix of a landline.
I completely understand but smartphones are a blessing and a curse in my opinion some people in those comments saying before computers and smartphones were simpler times it really depends not everyone has the same opinion I mean I am grateful that they made those electronics
How about a small enogh phone whose screen is not eye catching as our smartphones.
My phone is a phone, I.e. I can only talk to people with it, social media, I look out the window
In prehistoric times man carried around a stick. The smart phone has become our stick.
And FOMO... whatever you do, you are gonna be missing out on something else. If you stay at home next Friday, you will miss your neighbor's cool party. If you go to the party, you will miss meeting your friends at the concert. If you go to the concert you'll miss a lovely evening home alone because your parents are on a weekend trip. Whatever you do, you are alway miss some event. Make choose you do not miss out on the present.
🤔 enough is enough....
In Our home we decided to ditch ALL smartphones FOR GOOD...
On paydsy we all go and buy nokia 2720 flipphones and the kids LOVE IT 😄👍
It will only do calls and text and a few not so good picktures 😄 and it will flip your world back to normal.
I have an old 2007 Tracfone , No Camera or Texting , I use this only as a Phone . I have Modern
Phones some quite expensive I never buy a Sim for these or use them much . I do the Internet on a
2011 core i5 Laptop and when I leave on a bike , on foot or in an older car I am not visible to be
tracked by Apple or Google . I Hate Smart Phones , You never see me Looking down at my Hands in Public :) QC