{"id":211609,"date":"2024-03-09T12:20:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T12:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/we-arent-addicted-to-our-phones-and-we-dont-need-a-digital-detox\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:57","slug":"we-arent-addicted-to-our-phones-and-we-dont-need-a-digital-detox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/we-arent-addicted-to-our-phones-and-we-dont-need-a-digital-detox\/","title":{"rendered":"We aren&#8217;t addicted to our phones and we don&#8217;t need a &#8216;digital detox&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"replace-inline-image\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/30114141\/SEI_189225374.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/30114141\/SEI_189225374.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/30114141\/SEI_189225374.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/30114141\/SEI_189225374.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/30114141\/SEI_189225374.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/30114141\/SEI_189225374.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/30114141\/SEI_189225374.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/30114141\/SEI_189225374.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/30114141\/SEI_189225374.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/30114141\/SEI_189225374.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/30114141\/SEI_189225374.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image alignnone size-full wp-image-2414839 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"New Scientist Default Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"Simone Rotella\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>IF I asked you to describe the relationship you have with your phone, what would you say? For many, I have a suspicion that the word \u201caddicted\u201d would crop up in some way. For those of us who use digital technology with any sort of regularity, there will inevitably come <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24833140-100-how-to-avoid-using-your-devices-too-much-during-the-pandemic\/\">a point<\/a> where we think we have overdone it, and that doesn\u2019t feel good.<\/p>\n<p>But does this really mean we are addicted to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24332490-600-screen-time-how-smartphones-really-affect-our-bodies-and-brains\/\">screens?<\/a> I would wager that, for the vast majority of users, the answer is no. Certainly not in a clinical sense, because there is no\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26134762-000-we-arent-addicted-to-our-phones-and-we-dont-need-a-digital-detox\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] IF I asked you to describe the relationship you have with your phone, what would you say? For many, I have a suspicion that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339217,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211609\/revisions\/339217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}