Digital addiction refers to a compulsive need to use digital devices that interferes with life. There are several types including phone, internet, and social media addiction. Signs of technology addiction include poor hygiene, decreased interest in offline activities, and irritability when forced to disconnect. Ways to overcome digital addiction include turning off notifications, scheduling reply times, muting phones at times, uninstalling distracting apps, and practicing meditation.

1. Digital De-addiction
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2. Excess of anything is bad.
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3. What is Digital Addiction?
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4. Developing a compulsive need to use your digital devices, to the extent where it
interferes with your life and stops you from doing things you need to do, is the
hallmark of an Digital Addiction (also referred to as “Technology Addictions”).
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5. Types of Digital
Addiction
• Phone addiction
• Internet addiction
• Social media addiction
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6. Phone Addiction
• Phone addiction is a dependence
syndrome and a clinical
addiction where users are affected by
smartphone overuse which impacts
their daily lives in a negative way.
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7. Internet Addiction
• Internet addiction is defined as an
impulse control disorder, also known as
pathological internet use, where some
may find it difficult to differentiate
between the virtual world and reality.
• Sufferers tend to spend excessive
amounts of time online, not only eating
up time but also causing a higher risk of
overspending by getting involved in
online gambling and gaming.
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8. Social media Addiction
• If you spend far too much time on
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and
Snapchat to the point where you
document each and every aspect of
your life on any/all of the platform, you
could be a social media addict.
By-Amresh Tiwari, Sunbeam Suncity (School & Hostel)

9. Signs &
Symptoms of
Technology
Addiction
Poor hygiene
Decreasing interest in offline activities
Irritability or frustration when forced to disconnect
Persistent use in spite of negative consequences at
school, work, or in relationships
Preoccupation with online experiences—even in offline
time tend to think about past experiences and plan for
future experiences
By-Amresh Tiwari, Sunbeam Suncity (School & Hostel)

10. Overcoming Digital Addiction
Turn off
Notifications
Schedule time
to give reply
Go Grayscale
Allow yourself
to be Bored
Mute your
phone at times
Uninstall most
distracting Apps
Practicing
Meditation
By-Amresh Tiwari, Sunbeam Suncity (School & Hostel)

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