Are you Hostage to Your Digital Habits?
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We have become distracted. Our digital habits have discouraged and often hinder us from being present both physically and mentally. We have allowed the person on the other end of an app on our device to control our time as well as our every thought and action. This session will focus on our digital habits and how we can start to take back our lives from the people or technology stealing it.
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Are you Hostage to Your Digital Habits?
- 2. Why did you choose this session?
- 3. It’s NOT technology we should be afraid of. It’s a life where we’re always connected, always interrupted, always distracted, always bombarded with information and requests. It’s a life where we have NOtime to create, or connect with real people. Leo Babauta ‘Focus’
- 4. You have a problem if…. • You have phantom rings, beeps and buzzes both mentally and physically • You have FOMO (fear of missing out) syndrome • You can’t go a whole meal without looking at your phone • You check facebook/email/twitter before getting out of bed • You have a nervous breakdown when you realize you've left your phone in your office and don't have it for a meeting or have left it home? • What are some others?
- 5. What is your most annoying digital habit or habits you’ve seen in others?
- 6. What makes these so annoying or why does it bother you so much?
- 7. Why do we need to change our habits? “There is a deeper issue in play here” Hilarie Cash, executive director of the reStart program for internet addiction and recovery which is designed to help launch tech dependent youth and adults back into real life interactions. Program helps users discover the underlying issues to problematic technology use (e.g., depression, anxiety, ADHD, learning differences, stress, family relationship issues, and addictions)
- 8. reasons to change your habits3
- 9. You'll be less of jerk (@acsifferlin)1 Study found that cell phone use is inhibiting the prosocial behavior http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/20/is- your-cell-phone-making-you-a-jerk/ Study found that when people feel they are included in a social circle, it encourages a sense of exclusivity
- 10. You're addicted, its controlling you2 https://conversationprism.com/
- 11. You're missing out on life3 Lester Public library 75% missed Mind illusion
- 12. How do you keep your digital habits in check?
- 13. How I’ve been successful in addressing my poor digital habits • Boundaries –When I’m home, I’m home, my phone is set on the fireplace mantel • Turn it Off - Use an app blocking app or put in airplane mode • Driving - I don’t take my phone out of my pocket while driving • Alerts – I’ve turned off Email/social alerts on my devices • Eat in Peace - Phone stack game • Get Away -Vacation where you’re out of signal
- 14. Let me know your thoughts: @Ljvanwingerden or luke@uscupstate.edu Thank you for the inspirations: • http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/04/five-steps-to-digital-hygiene.html • http://www.drfranklipman.com/8-ways-to-disconnect-from-technology-and-get-more-done/ • http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/20/is-your-cell-phone-making-you-a-jerk/ • http://focusmanifesto.com/the-beauty-of-disconnection/ • http://theweek.com/articles/468363/life-age-internet-addiction • http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/06/18/12-reasons-to-stop-multitasking-now/ • http://www.gritandglamour.com/2014/10/15/disconnect-from-digital/
Editor's Notes
- Good afternoon You’re currently in the session titled “Are You Hostage to Your Digital Habits?” My name is Luke VanWingerden and I work in ITS here at USC Upstate. I have an amazing wife and 3 children (5, 3, and 1 months)
- I had one person come up to me yesterday saying they are in need of an intervention and they need to make changes…. So, why are you hear? What we are going to talk through are strategies that I didn’t come up with, they aren’t brain surgery but they are subtle reminders and ideas that may transform your thinking or your habits. Seth Godin is one of my #learningheros, he doesn’t know it, but an article he wrote about a month ago gave me some inspiration for this session.
- The following quote is taken from the book “Focus” by Leo Babauta. He later wrote a blog post centered on this topic that was phenomenal as well. Can I get a volunteer to read this for me? Get you thinking about your own digital habits Engage with others (group therapy) Give you time to ponder your digital habits and ways to conquer your bad habits
- You have a problem if….
- Get them talking! Mine is talking on the phone at a restaurant or while at the grocery store while the kids are in the shopping cart.
- Diagram of issue and root problem Checking FB and desire to connect
- Prosocial Behavior – “Voluntary behavior intended to benefit another benefit[s] other people or society as a whole such as helping, sharing, donating, co-operating, and volunteering." Study author and marketing professor Rosellina Ferraro said in a statement "So why would an innocuous thing like making a cell phone call make a person less giving? The researchers think it has to do with feelings of social connectedness. All humans have a fundamental need to connect with others — but once that need is met, say by using a cell phone, it naturally reduces our inclination to feel empathy or engage in helping behavior toward others. “The cell phone directly evokes feelings of connectivity to others, thereby fulfilling the basic human need to belong,” Waytz and his colleagues also noted that when people feel they are included in a social circle, it encourages a sense of exclusivity — a feeling of “us versus them.” That increases our tendency to view those on the outside of the circle as somehow less human and less worthy of receiving our charitable attention
- Does anyone know what this is? This is the conversation Prism. The Conversation Prism is a visual map of the social media landscape. It’s an ongoing study in digital ethnography that tracks dominant and promising social networks and organizes them by how they’re used in everyday life. "Internet addiction is the same as any other addiction — excessive release of dopamine," says Hilarie Cash, executive director of the reStart program for internet addiction and recovery, a Seattle-area rehab program that helps wean people off the internet. "Addiction is addiction. Whether it's gambling, cocaine, alcohol, or Facebook.“
- Forget seeing the forest for the trees or the glass half full—people who are busy doing two things at once don't even see obvious things right in front of them, according to a 2009 study from Western Washington University. Specifically, 75 percent of college students who walked across a campus square while talking on their cell phones did not notice a clown riding a unicycle nearby. The researchers call this "inattentional blindness," saying that even though the cell-phone talkers were technically looking at their surroundings, none of it was actually registering in their brains. A new study shows that people who rate themselves as the best multitaskers are actually the worst at it when they’re put to the test; they also tend to be greater risk takers and are more impulsive overall. But people who multitask less, the study found, are actually the ones who are best at it. So it may be that multitasking is actually a sign that a person isn’t able to concentrate very well on a project, rather being than a deliberate choice of work habit.
- Ask again, Do you think your digital habits are killing you, your time or the way you interact with those around you?