Control your phone, don’t let your phone control you!!
Strategies for intentionally using your phone and becoming a great role model as a digital user
When it comes to advertising, all of us adults become thoroughly frugal and economical because we are well aware of the tricks and gimmicks that advertising operators use to deceive their audiences, from cheerful music to presenting attractive youth-friendly models. But how many of us has it ever happened to, where we just wanted to check our email for a second, but when we came to our senses, an hour had passed and we were surprised at how fast time went by.
Perhaps we don’t know that designers and engineers use the color red for notifications to grab attention and quickly get the desired reaction from the viewer. Many of us have also become addicted to technology. But if we want to be a good role model as a digital user and ensure that our family members also use technology correctly, we need to fight these tricks and gimmicks. We must show our children how they can benefit from these small computers in our pockets without forgetting that human beings come first, not virtual space.
Some very simple strategies to control your phone:
Turn off all your phone notifications except essential ones related to people: Many notifications are sent by bots and not real people. Therefore, go to the phone settings menu and in the notifications section, turn off all phone notifications except essential items like messages or emails from your friends.
Tone down your phone’s color and flair with the grayscale option: All colorful apps are designed to capture your mind. So if you want to visit your phone less often, eliminate these attractive colors. Of course, this is not an easy task either, because we are all accustomed to these attractive and brilliant colors. But many phones allow their users to use more neutral colors. Therefore, go to the settings menu, turn on the color filter option from the display settings section, and set it to grayscale mode.
Declutter your phone’s home screen (desktop): Only place shortcuts for email, maps, calendar apps, and whatever you use every day on the home screen, and put all games and other software inside a separate folder and then on secondary screens. The less you see them, the less you will use them.
Don’t keep social media on your phone: If you have social media like Facebook and Instagram only on your computer (and not your phone), you will use them less and probably more purposefully.
Do not charge your phone in the bedroom: Using a phone in bed children causes problems in their sleep. Therefore, do not plug the phone in to charge in the bedroom and use those old alarm clocks to wake up instead of the phone’s alarm.