WSJ: How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds

Regardless of whether your phone feels to be the largest and most indispensable tool in your life, this article refers to the extent to which mobile phones will affect our brains.

Tristan Harris, Google's design ethicologist and founder of Time Well Spent, talks to Thrive Global about smartphone designs how to hijack our brains, organize your phone and share your mind with " I took over "method. Harris's strategy depends on making small adjustments such as "prioritizing awareness selection first" and managing notifications and deliberately placing icons on the home screen.

"Our idea is likely to be hijacked - a high-tech insider who is worried about vision problems on smartphones", a long weekend on guardians who use smartphones to solve concerns about our destructive attention Even though articles, psychologists and psychiatrist associations have not raised such problems around the world, people insist that it is addictive.

The article on October 7th of Wall Street Journal of Nicholas Carr, "smartphone read the way to hijack our heart". Carr also "The Shallows", "What does the Internet do to our brains" (Norton, 2010) The authors of the book detail in detail the adverse effects of computers and smartphones on our society. Another "USA Today" article issued on the same day "Instagram: Why does your child like to use it" highlights some of the negative effects of popular services. There are more than 800 million users in Instagram, especially among teenagers and young people is said to be popular. Instagram allows you to post subtitled photos and publish almost anything. According to Molina:

Tristan Harris, Google's former product ethics and design philosopher, added that Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram deliberately hijacked ideas and maximized time spent on their applications I will explain how to operate. We all felt the death of thousands of push notifications, e-mails, and infinite scrolling feeds, but seems to have forgotten how deep the contrast between today's world and smartphone is. It is not exaggeration to say that the attention economy is killing our children more accurately - our children are committing suicide. Since 2009, the suicide rate of girls has doubled. This increase has a causal relationship with the number of hours spent watching the screen, especially with social media.