Many people today can no longer imagine life without a smartphone. Research has shown that more than 50 percent of people are addicted to smartphones. On average, we touch the smartphone screen 221 times a day. The Mann family accepted a challenge that would have seemed like the easiest thing in the world 10 years ago, but today it is considered one of the most difficult. For the sake of the experiment, she completely gave up digital technology for one week. Check out how they coped with the absence of modern electronics.
Not survival in nature, today is the biggest challenge survival without digital technology. We could give up your smartphone, computer, tablet and TV for one week? For many people, something like this is unimaginable, because they can no longer imagine life without at least one of the listed technological devices. Quite a few people feel like they don't have a smartphone like a fish out of water and probably the hardest thing to give up is the phone that many people use starts and ends the day and which we practically have sewn onto the palm.
They are like that too Leanne and Elina from the family Mann, which is gave up all digital technology for a week, i.e. to anything that has a screen. The first problem? Boredom! On the first day, Dad and Mom said they had nowhere to spend their time, and the family had to find a way to fill a time that until now has been masked by technology, they also had to deal with other things that relied on technology, such as weather forecast, news, timetables...
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Psychologists compare technology addiction to a mild form of drug and alcohol addiction. Classic ones appear during discharge withdrawal symptoms. Would you dare to undergo a digital detox? Do you think it would disengagement from technology did it work for you? See if the Mann family was relieved when it was of the experiment over, did they finally realize that life is fuller without digital technology?
