The addictive nature of smartphones

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1. Thats a grea simple phrase to summarize it. "When I'm on the street, I want to be on the street." Phones take your mind out of whatever you are physically in/ interacting with.

2. Yesterday afternoon I was backing into a parking spot and a person walking with their bike, also using their phone, walked right in my path while I was moving. My moving car was no more than 10 feet away from them… they had no idea at the moment, they continued and never knew I was there. The physical vulnerability reality is just a tip of the iceberg though; the real story isn't just the obvious occasional threat to physical harm, but if you're oblivious to a moving car, imagine all the other important information you're meant to experience that you are now brain-blind to.

3. for sure, but you have to see the convenience of being mobile, and respond on the fly, as opposed to being stuck in the office… yeah you’re less likely to get distracted/addicted, but at a cost of missing all the benefits of this amazing technology

4. I got a light phone 2 but the texting was just way too slow.

5. Basically a rant, an uncharacteristic thing for this channel.

6. Watching this on my smart phone during my dinner.

7. Exercise some self-discipline and use technology to enhance your life. Don’t be a luddite.

8. the sun doesn't rise. the earth turss. being sarcastic due to the bold statement "I know the sun rises in the east" as always great work sirs attia/junger… and thats coming from someone with over 9000 photos shared to Instagram. but I'm a photographer, writer, story-teller with cognitive disabilities from multiple sclerosis symptomology. so Insta serves as my once plastic and analog photo album. yes, waiting for the solar storm to knock it all out of sorts. Id welcome the chaos and revery back to my midwest farming hunting gathering upbringing. answers for everything? nah just thought out a bit and yes, answers for everything! have a great morning anyone who has made it this far in the comments…in life.

9. Y r u gae?

10. The only person I email is my brother and that's cuz he doesn't have a smartphone so I can't whatsapp him…

    I will say though, I enjoy listening to podcasts on my smartphone, and apart from that and messaging I rarely use my smartphone. No need for workarounds. I'm just addicted to my desktop.

11. Every company, under capitalism, intends to addict you to their product. Limiting the scope of this issue to "big-tech" is disingenuous and holier-than-thou.

    Not saying he's wrong, he's absolutely right but the focus should be expanded to the larger issue rather than a single branch.

12. The irony…as I watch this podcast on a smartphone. lol

13. So true it comes down to be unfree to our addictions. We should be free to have addictions, but strong enough and wise enough to choose to be in control from them.

14. Excellent video thank you 😊

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