{"id":135448,"date":"2015-07-17T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=135448"},"modified":"2015-07-17T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T07:42:08","slug":"why-your-tech-addiction-makes-you-lonely-as-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=135448","title":{"rendered":"Why your tech addiction makes you lonely as hell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The devices keeping people connected are the same ones tearing your family apart.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In today\u2019s world, you give so much of yourself to others that, by the time you get home, you just want to crash and numb yourself on the Internet.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0have you ever wondered what your children see when you choose\u00a0an electronic device\u00a0over play time?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a new advertisement campaign that depicts the brutal truth that most parents don\u2019t want to face.<\/p>\n

The creators of the ad placed a giant phone between the parent and child to represent the barrier that the child experiences.<\/p>\n

My initial reaction when I saw this\u00a0was, “Oh, this breaks my heart!”\u00a0As parents, we want our children (and partners) to feel like we\u2019re always there for them.\u00a0We would never intentionally put a barrier between our families and ourselves. Obviously, this ad holds a lot of truth, and, as parents, we need to\u00a0pause and look at the\u00a0relationship that we have with our phones.<\/p>\n

Do You Have An Addiction To Your Phone?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the phone (or the content) that we’re addicted to\u00a0\u2014\u00a0it\u2019s the distraction.\u00a0Since we\u00a0accepted this non-stop pace in\u00a0our\u00a0society, we feel awkward when we\u00a0slow down. We FREAK\u00a0out when we have time to chill.\u00a0We have no clue how to relax\u00a0anymore, and when we venture into the\u00a0unfamiliar state of slowing down, we feel so uncomfortable that\u00a0we reach for whatever’s closest to help us escape.<\/p>\n

I recently watched this Ted talk by Johann Hari and he mentioned how we’re\u00a0hyper-sensitive to addiction in our world today because we’re filling our connection tank with the wrong fuel.\u00a0Whether it’s addiction to your\u00a0iPhone, food\u00a0or porn,\u00a0we’re more susceptible to getting hooked because we’re lonely.<\/p>\n

We’ve tried to reinvent what intimacy looks like, but our souls aren\u2019t having it.\u00a0We believe that we’re overly connected with\u00a0Snapchat, Instagram\u00a0and texting, but we’re literally the loneliest<\/em>we’ve ever been.<\/p>\n

How Can We Stop Being So Susceptible To Distraction Addictions?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can choose to connect, rather than distract.<\/p>\n

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  • You can put the iPhone down and connect with your kid.<\/li>\n
  • You can shut off your phone when you crawl into bed and cuddle up next to your partner.<\/li>\n
  • You can look up when you\u2019re running errands and make eye\u00a0contact with fellow community members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The Berlin wall wasn\u2019t taken down in a day and neither will your habit.<\/p>\n

    It takes\u00a021 days for your brain to wire in a new habit.\u00a0That means that you must have patience\u00a0and persistence.<\/p>\n

    You’ll slide back into old patterns\u00a0(we all do).\u00a0When this happens, simply ask your loved ones to remind you of this\u00a0ad.\u00a0Then all you need to do is refocus and reconnect with what really matters with\u00a0your loved ones standing before you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Source: Yourtango.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The devices keeping people connected are the same ones tearing your family apart. In today\u2019s world, you give so much of yourself to others that, by the time you get home, you just want to crash and numb yourself on the Internet. But\u00a0have you ever wondered what your children see when you choose\u00a0an electronic device\u00a0over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":135450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36,18],"class_list":["post-135448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}