Actually, you don’t need to use your phone less

Have you noticed that every third article now seems to be about some variation of “phone addiction” or “internet addiction” or (my least favorite) “dopamine addiction”? Can we stop beating this dead horse? I saw The Social Dillema back when it came out. I wasn’t impressed then and I’m not impressed now. Everyone “knows” that phones are “addictive”, and if you’re one of the many people trying to fight that “addiction”, this article is not for you. This article is for everyone else. This article is for people who don’t primarily use their phone for social media. I am so sick of hearing people paint time spent online as an unequivocal evil. News flash: everything is online now! For all that you people romanticize the pre-internet era, do you even remember it?? Art is online Music is online Books are online Scientific information is online People you like more than the people in your immediate social vicinity are online Television is online Religious knowledge is online Games are online…