Why People Check Their Tech at the Wrong Times (and the Simple Trick to Stop It)
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(and the Simple Tricks to STOP IT)
Why People Check Their Tech at the
Wrong Times
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“We expect more from technology
and less fromeach other.”
- Sherry TurkleDirector of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self vs
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Chances are you’ve
experienced the following:
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You’re with a small group of friends at a nice restaurant.
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Everyone is enjoying the food and conversation.
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Then someone decides to take out her phone…
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Not for an urgent call…
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Not for an urgent call… but to check email, Twitter, and Facebook.
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The Disease that is
Indiscriminate
Gadget Use
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Doing nothing in the face of indiscriminate
gadget use is no longer O.K.
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Staying silent about bad technology habits
is making things worse
for all of us.
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Paul Graham coined the term
“Social Antibodies”:
defenses against new harmful behaviors
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He uses the example of cigarette
smoking.
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Smoking in public became taboo over the span of just one generation
after social conventions changed.
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The remedy to screen indiscretion may be developing new norms that make it
socially undesirable
to check one’s phone in the company of others.
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Keep in mind:
Tech makers design these products using the same psychology that makes slot machines
addictive.
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If we don’t build social antibodies, the disease of distraction will become
the new normal.
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But how do we develop and spread social antibodies to inoculate ourselves against
bad mobile manners?
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At Work: Mandate a
“no-screen meeting”
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At corporate meetings, someone (typically the highest-paid person in the room) starts
using his or her personal technology.
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This sends a message to everyone in the room that gadget time is
more important
than their time.
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This also prevents the person using the device from participating in the discussion, which means the meeting
wasn’t worth having
in the first place.
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Workshops and discussions
declared device-free are by far more productive.
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Setting
expectations
up front
is equivalent to administering a distraction vaccine.
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Among Friends: Snap the offender out
of the phone zone
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Give your friend two options:
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excuse himself to attend to whatever crisis is
happening
Give your friend two options:
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excuse himself to attend to whatever crisis is
happening
Give your friend two options:
put away the tech and go back to the
conversation or
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How?
Ask a question:
Pull him back to the conversation while sending a clear message.
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Then say,
“Oh, sorry, were you on your phone? Is everything
O.K.?”
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More often than not, your friend will tuck his phone back into his pocket and start enjoying the company.
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Let’s Do
Something
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Set limits.
Don’t resign
yourself to
being ignored.
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The idea is not to disavow technology
completely, but to encourage people
to appreciate its power, and to
be aware when its power over them
is becoming a problem.
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Technology should serve us
— we should
not serve it.
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