1. The document provides tips for overcoming lack of sleep caused by excessive social media usage at night.
2. It suggests limiting social media access by blocking sites and apps after a certain hour, deleting accounts and profiles, and finding offline activities to engage in instead of checking social media.
3. Removing technology from the bedroom, spending time with friends and family in person, keeping a regular sleep schedule, and seeking medical or psychological help for internet addiction are also recommended to break the social media habit and get better quality sleep.
ILF 2011 Preconference - Engaging Users through Emerging TechCourtney McDonald
The Future is Now:
Engage users anywhere, anytime, any place with emerging technologies
Chanitra Bishop & Courtney Greene | Indiana Library Federation 2011 Conference |
November 14, 2011
ILF 2011 Preconference - Engaging Users through Emerging TechCourtney McDonald
The Future is Now:
Engage users anywhere, anytime, any place with emerging technologies
Chanitra Bishop & Courtney Greene | Indiana Library Federation 2011 Conference |
November 14, 2011
An overview of the Hydra digital repository framework and the community that builds and maintains it. Presented at Open Repositories 2013 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Libraries and the Long Now (Bibliotechas y "Largo Ahora")eosadler
How do we build digital libraries that will last for centuries? How do libraries start thinking about the "long now"? Some insights from the Hydra digital library project. Presentation given at Congreso Innovatics 2014, Santiago, Chile.
Craig Gilman, our Digital Youth Adviser
presents a practical training session with a range of examples of how to use social media and online technologies in your youthwork practice. With digital skills and techniques participants can use immediately to engage and support young people’s online engagement.
Life and the Challenges of Digital DistractionBen Klocek
Now that we carry tiny computers around in our pockets, that constantly ask for our attention, it is more critical than ever, that we consciously choose the relationship we want to have with it.
Tech Shabbat is a term coined in 2010 by Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg to describe a day of rest or cessation from the use of all technology with screens: smartphones, personal computers, tablets, and television. Shlain introduced the concept, modeled on the traditional Jewish Shabbat,
An overview of the Hydra digital repository framework and the community that builds and maintains it. Presented at Open Repositories 2013 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Libraries and the Long Now (Bibliotechas y "Largo Ahora")eosadler
How do we build digital libraries that will last for centuries? How do libraries start thinking about the "long now"? Some insights from the Hydra digital library project. Presentation given at Congreso Innovatics 2014, Santiago, Chile.
Craig Gilman, our Digital Youth Adviser
presents a practical training session with a range of examples of how to use social media and online technologies in your youthwork practice. With digital skills and techniques participants can use immediately to engage and support young people’s online engagement.
Life and the Challenges of Digital DistractionBen Klocek
Now that we carry tiny computers around in our pockets, that constantly ask for our attention, it is more critical than ever, that we consciously choose the relationship we want to have with it.
Tech Shabbat is a term coined in 2010 by Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg to describe a day of rest or cessation from the use of all technology with screens: smartphones, personal computers, tablets, and television. Shlain introduced the concept, modeled on the traditional Jewish Shabbat,
A presentation given at Centerville Presbyterian Church in Fremont, CA on March 13, 2011. It was a conversation for parents about the pros & cons of technology and some advice for how they might go about engaging their children in conversations about technology.
No idea where to start with social media? Too many people saying too many things?
Social media expert Adam Larter breaks it down nice and simple.
Perfect for marketing professionals, beginners and anyone wanting to refresh on the basics. Up to date as of 2013.
23. Instead of checking • Always be invisible on
your friends news by
internet at night, call social media chat - so you
them wont be distracted by other
people you dont need to
Have a talk to at night
maximum of
messages you • Block each and every
can answer and online game by social
photos/pics you
media you see, before
can see at night
on internet starting to play it
24. Lock the room • Never start pointless
where the converstaion after 8 pm
computer is after
10 pm
• Turn off the computer at
Focuse more on least two hours before
your own life then going to sleep
on lives of people
you hardly know
• Make all your friends
delete their social media
profiles - then everyone
lives happily ever after
25. Just before • Become a monk
10pm, take a sleeping
pill
• Become a nun or a
Get rid of your priest, with the vow of
personal computer poverty you won't have
and cellphone, and money to buy PC's, mobile
only use your phones, etc
company's - which
social media are
blocked • Go live in a poor village to do
social work for some
time, where there is no
electricity (therefore, no
social media!)
26. • Find a real-life support
Use valerian roots as
a natural sleep aid
group for media
before 10pm
addiction, they'll help
you, you'll help other
You may have an
people, and you'll sleep
Internet Addiction enough again!
Disorder (IAD), So
go to a • Repeat to yourself "I won't
rehabilitation clinic check
to treat yourself fb, twitter, youtube, etc
(They exist.. In Italy after 10 pm" 10 times per
& U.S) day ...You'll start to get the
idea (and will do it by
yourself)
27. Cancel your • Clean your "friends list" to
internet leave the really important
service, with no
ones and then you can
connection no
obsession avoid a long list full of
"entertainment" to consult
Go to a each new moment
psychologist, you
may be filling an
inner emptiness • Got to a SMA (Social Media
with the social Addicted) session
networks
addiction
28. Tie a string on our
finger to remind you
• Go to a Magician or
of getting out of the someone who can hipnotize
computer! you and create a repulsive
feeling about social media
Get a teenage brotehr
or sister who will fight • Get an obsessive
you and piss you off
until he/she gets the
boyfriend/girlfriend who
computer will ask you about every
person who likes or
erase the apps of
social media from
comments on your profile
your phone and all of your pictures
29. • Have a more actives social
Sleep with hipnotizing
songs about not usinglife-go out everynight! so
those sites or apps
the ones you dont go
out, will value more the
Mark on a calendar chance of sleeping early
the days you
achieve not
spending more
• fill with post-its the room
than 1H in social your computer is in with
media, it will notes that may incourage
encourage you! you
30. Include an annoying
sound that your computer
• Apply for a very hard
plays while you are in job, that way you will
social networks
have to study at night to
Remove the chair get the job, and after
while you are in social you got the job you will
networks and just visit
them standing up, this have to work almost
way youll get tired of every evening...
standing up and will
close the sites therefore, too tired to
be in social media
31. Start an addictive • Make a serious bet with
game so it would take your friend who will learn
your mind of the
(anything you choose
computer
which is difficult and do not
Make a serious career involve social media) in less
plan: whatever you time; so you will both use
want to do in the your evenings to learn that.
future, you will need
to use your evenings
to accomplish your
plans - and after that
• Turn off the lights, so our
you will just want to eyes will get tired faster
sleep
32. • Try to spend that time
somewhere else like social
Erase your social work & see change in your
media accounts
life
Try to spend your time
in that area where • Try to know the reason
internet is not
available to you &
behind this life, like why we
think how that change are live? who is GOD. these
your life are quit interesting
question. That consume a
lot time
33. Take a warm bath before
bedtime. Sleep usually • Do what feel changeable to
follows the cooling phase of
your body's temperature you bw 10 to afterwards
cycle. After your warm
bath, keep the temperature • Hire some pet animal &
in your bedroom cool. spend time with that animal
after 10 pm
"When you get up in • Tries watch movies bw 10 to
the morning, get into
bright light as soon as afterwards to avoid internet
possible. Avoid bright • clean your room after 10 pm
light in the evening.
Light signals to the • To entertain yourself watch
brain when it should music videos or tv show after
""wake up"" and ""go
to sleep."" 10 pm
34. The night you want to talk to
your friend by social
website, write a letter to
• Try to wash your cloths
him/her instead (and it will after 10 pm
consume more energy, and
you will want to sleep right • try to make your dinner by
after)
your own till the time you
Take the problem as if
are facing the sleeping
you surf internet it will problem
cause electricity & you
have to save the • Everyone is creative in this
electricity world. so try your creativity
Avoid coffee to avoid the in drawing after 10
sleep at night
Listen inspirational • Delete the social media
songs to pump up your application from your
will to avoid the social
networking site access. phone as well as from pc