Because, let’s face it, checking your “likes” is the new smoking. The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. People don’t succumb to screens because they’re lazy, but instead because billions of dollars have been invested to make this outcome inevitable.Increasingly, they dictate how we behave and how we feel, and somehow coerce us to use them more than we think is healthy, often at the expense of other activities we find more valuable.Smartphones have reshaped people’s experience of the world by providing an always-present connection to a humming matrix of chatter and distraction.The best activities are often physical (something you can touch), creative (challenges your mind) and social (done collectively with friends). Engage in more high quality leisure activities.Email, text and basically all forms of social media is not conversation, but connection. There is no substitute for face-to-face communication.
Solitude encourages your ability to clarify hard problems, to regulate your emotions, to build moral courage, and to strengthen relationships. Digital minimalism is a philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value.
These companies profit by maximizing the amount of time users engage with their services.
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