Phones and technologies are a major part of our everyday lives, most of us even spend several hours a day scrolling down and tapping on the screen of our devices. So do I, but the question is, are we sure it\u2019s really the phone we\u2019re addicted to?<\/p>\n
I, a well integrated 15-year-old teenage boy, would like to ease into this topic by confirming that I personally also do waste a lot of my spare time using social media or playing video games. Pretty much all year one could call me a \u201cphone-dependent\u201d and I\u2019m sure that I\u2019m not the only one who\u2019ll feel the same way. My parents and teachers keep telling me to put my phone away.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In summer, my family and I usually spend 4 to 5 weeks on an island in Greece. When I was little technology wasn\u2019t an issue during our vacations but when I grew up and did have a phone, my parents always took it away for that period of time. I\u2019ve always been extremely mad at them for taking away MY PHONE and always thought that the phone was what I absolutely needed.\u00a0 Every summer from then on I spent hours and hours complaining about why they would do such an unfair and evil thing to me, even though there was nothing I had done wrong.<\/p>\n
In the end, not giving me my phone for these couple of weeks was something I actually ended up benefiting of because I could spend more time surfing, hanging out with friends and relaxing, which is what I\u2019ve loved the most ever since I was a kid.<\/p>\n
Two years ago, for the first time ever since I\u2019ve had technology, my parents allowed me to keep my phone on our vacation and I was so extremely happy. The thought of having my phone and holidays at the same time seemed just perfect to me.<\/p>\n
Eventually we got there and after setting up all the camping stuff I took my phone out and jumped into the hammock. \u201cThis is wonderful!\u201d, I said to myself until I realized there was nothing I could really do, except taking pictures and listening to music which I already had a family camera and an I pod for. All the other applications required internet, which I didn\u2019t have outside of Austria and were therefore useless. After less than a day I got totally bored and couldn\u2019t look at it for just another second with that anger inside of me.<\/p>\n
From then on I knew, that it wasn\u2019t the phone I wanted, but the internet, social media and all the practical advantages that you usually need a laptop for.<\/p>\n
I can really recommend you to try \u201cphone-fasting\u201d for at least a few days, to realize what else you can do instead and to be aware that it\u2019s not the phone you\u2019re addicted to.<\/p>\n
Thank you for reading my blog and I hope to see you soon! If not, I wish you very happy and partially<\/span> phone free holidays,<\/p>\n Matteo C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Phones and technologies are a major part of our everyday lives, most of us even spend several hours a day scrolling down and tapping on the screen of our devices. So do I, but the question is, are we sure it\u2019s really the phone we\u2019re addicted to? I, a well integrated 15-year-old teenage boy, would like to ease into this Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":2064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[26,49,48,50],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5b-16","tag-psychology","tag-social-media","tag-society","tag-teenagers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t