The use of digital technology in all possible and imaginable spaces and conditions has alienated humans who have become addicts and downright ”addicts”, even slaves to digital content on screens. What hides these behaviors that are harassing and annoying for others and reprehensible in a certain way?
L’modern man has truly become a prisoner and a slave to the digital content found on an endless list of media. Exit books, magazines and newspapers, yet immeasurable sources of knowledge and imagination, hello screens, screens, screens… We only see that in the hands of an ordinary person, even at the table or, while working… Even at the wheel, some speeders can’t stop having fun with their smartphones. It is that these people, both adults and children, have become subject to high exposure to screens in recent years as these very popular and accessible objects have become popular. If technology is good with access to a universe of possibilities and knowledge, it is still a tool to be handled reasonably. This is where the shoe pinches precisely because smartphones, electronic tablets, plasma screens, computer screens and others pollute our way of life on a daily basis so that we can no longer do anything or almost nothing without going through these gadgets. Social interactions have gone down because everything resides in these small objects. The digital applications that abound on the download stores further promote this addiction.
Psychological and mental disorder?
Already the selfies, these photos taken instantaneously by the person themselves in burst to make a slide show, have been classified as the sign of a mental disorder by the person who abuses them. Thus the use of screens in an untimely way throughout the day is hardly more complimentary. This strong digital addiction corresponds to excessive and uncontrollable screen practices, which can affect schooling, work and relationships with others. Often due to discomfort or social isolation, this addiction sometimes affects food and sleep.
Degraded quality of life
Obviously, the excessive use of screens every day does not act favorably on the time and quality of sleep. Blue light, as we discussed in our previous columns, is extremely detrimental to sleep. Social interactions necessarily decrease with these technological gadgets that we can no longer enumerate or classify when we know that electronic watches are all the rage, nowadays, among the fairer sex for monitoring the practice of sport. When you are told that everything goes through the screens today, it is not to fall into castastrophism. Digital totalitarianism has even been mentioned by some sociologists who believe that children are “finished” with screens and adults are housed in the same boat. Violent video games, social networks that glorify narcissism, video and suggestive images aimed at adults and children exposed to precocious stupefaction. Nothing is going right, according to them, jeopardizing a community homogeneity of society where everyone now does what they like. We noticed during the Covid-19 pandemic, which is still raging, how much people have become dependent on screens, especially with the need to isolate themselves because of confinement. Clearly, this generational phenomenon is not about to dissipate. The German physicist, Albert Einstein, had predicted the scenario of a dumbing down of the masses because of the technological universe invading the daily life of the world population because of the Internet. Man has become a real slave and extremely dependent on screens without finding a remedy. You just have to use applications that limit the time of screen use and parental control for children.