Nowadays, more than ever, people are actively discussing the possible dependence of people on technology. Technology companies have even been forced to build into their software products special counters and limiters that would make us think about the time we use smartphones. Doctors admit addiction computer games, and it’s hard to even imagine what will happen next. But is everything really that serious?

Psychologist Christopher Ferguson believes that many of the claims made about the impact of technology on human brain and the body are completely unworthy of attention. Moreover, he is ready to bust a few myths for us based on his experience working with families, teenagers, and their attitudes towards technology, gaming and addictions.

Many people say that using technology activates the same reward centers in the brain that drugs do. This may be true, but these same pleasure centers are not necessarily activated by something harmful. Any entertainment leads to an increase in dopamine levels. This list may include tasty food, playing sports or having a pleasant conversation.

Pleasant activities increase dopamine levels by 50-100 percent. Drugs increase it by 200-350 percent. With this in mind, comparing computer games to drugs is like comparing a raindrop to a waterfall.

Technology addiction is not a mental illness

The World Health Organization has added computer game addiction to its list of diseases. Christopher Ferguson believes that the people responsible for this decision do not take into account the possibility that gaming addiction may be a symptom of other psychological disorders.

Exists great amount contradictions that do not allow technology addiction to be considered an independent disorder. Many doctors admit this. Additionally, people who are called technology addicts tend to be able to recover from their disorders more easily than those with mental illnesses. It can be done without treatment.

Technology addiction is not caused by technology

A common argument in discussions is that people are attracted to the technology itself. Christopher Ferguson believes that people are starting to shift their attention to technology due to depression, anxiety and other problems. After all, no one thinks that people who are depressed and spend all day in bed have bed addiction.

With this in mind, it is worth paying attention to ways to treat technology addiction. If it is a symptom, then it is not the disease that needs to be treated, but the real disease.

It's not just technology that's capturing attention

At this point, Ferguson points out that people spend just as much time on other activities. For example, you can become interested in yoga or dancing. You can get so carried away that it also becomes like an addiction. By the way, you can find several scientific articles about dance addiction. It's hard to provide evidence that technology is more addictive than dancing.

Technology use does not lead to suicide

As proof that the world modern technologies brings us problems, some experts have provided data on an increase in the number of suicides among female adolescents. What is not taken into account is that the suicide rate has increased for everyone age groups. Growth began in 2008 during the financial crisis. Perhaps there is a more serious problem in society that is not noticed in the heat of the fight against technology.

Scientists sometimes make dire claims based on little data. We might as well say that eating potatoes and committing suicide are somehow related. Certain statistics can be attached to this statement.

Of course, there can be problems with using technology. But many simply cannot imagine their work today without computers and smartphones, and are happy to take a break from them later. There is a tiny kernel of truth in the discussion of problems and dependence on technology. However, there is no reason that there is some kind of technology-related crisis.

The influence of modern technologies on the younger generation

Grunin Nikita Andreevich

Bashkir State Agrarian University, Ufa

3rd year student

Marchenko Anastasia Sergeevna, associate professor of sociological sciences, professor, teacher of sociology, Bashkir State Agrarian University

Annotation:

In this article, we have quite accurately determined what impact modern technologies have on the younger generation, and also found out how to deal with this problem for parents whose children are affected by this influence and what measures to establish to prevent addiction to modern technologies.

In this article, we accurately identified the impact of modern technology on the younger generation, as well as discovered how to deal with this problem for parents, children who are and what is the impact to establish measures for the prevention, depending on modern technology.

Keywords:

modern technologies; growing generation; prevention measures

modern technologies; the younger generation; prevention measures

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The last decade has been significantly marked by the rapid development of modern technologies. Modern technologies are beginning to include new educational technologies, which, using a computer, effectively and qualitatively change cultural content. Internet, email, digital television have firmly taken a place in our lives, which often relegates established media to the background, especially among the younger generation. Communication ceases to be one-sided; an element of interactivity appears in it. The question of the influence of modern technologies on the younger generation appears in a new light. The amount of information available to every teenager in our time is increasing many times, the spread of news is diverse and very rapid. Grouped in world wide web the text is covered with hypertext fields, new unhindered connections created by “someone” appear in it, it completely loses the words of the author and the semantic completeness built by the author.

When exploring the influence of modern technologies on the younger generation, it is possible to consider the Internet as a characteristic environment that shapes social relations. Of course, modern technology plays a significant role in the lives of teenagers - it is both a means of communication and a source of information. A study of the sociocultural situation in post-Soviet Russia shows that the increased development of media culture, and especially audiovisual (cinema, video, computer games, satellite television), very actively influences the younger generation on their social consciousness as a powerful means of information, as a factor in the development of a teenager’s creative abilities. Today, it is obvious that the Internet, computer, and smartphone provide teenagers with the right to individual communication in an interactive mode, both to learn information of interest and to realize their creative ideas.

Everyone understands that technology development is an integral part modern life. Nowadays no one can imagine their life without the Internet, computer, cell phone and so on. But, unfortunately, numerous studies show that modern technologies have a significant impact on the younger generation. In the context of complex socio-economic processes that occur in society, educational functions in educational institutions and families. Communication between children and parents fades into the background. From here - high influence modern technologies on the process of shaping the worldview of the younger generation.

It is impossible not to notice that many teenagers become addicted to computer games, television, social networks. From a medical point of view, computer games impair vision, as well as harden and give rise to aggression, satellite television with multi-channel system often broadcasts programs with destructive content for the psyche, and on age limit only a small part pays attention, and social networks replace live communication to virtual.

Due to this dependence among adolescents, it becomes difficult to interest them in activities in institutions additional education(sports sections, creative clubs). After all, the means of modern technology are easy, fast, beautiful, and playing in the football section is work. If in modern technology, a result can be achieved by simply pressing a button, here it will take effort and time to achieve a result.

Of course, it will not be possible to completely eliminate modern technologies from the lives of teenagers, but it is imperative to protect them from information that destroys their psyche. And first of all, this should be a priority for parents, teachers and other specialists who work with the younger generation, instilling in them spiritual and moral values ​​and developing their abilities. The main responsibility for how a child develops rests with the parents. It is they who are obliged to see the inclinations and aspirations of their child, so that as early as possible they can decide on an experienced teacher, not only for the professional development of abilities, but also for the education of spiritual and moral values. But, unfortunately, parents often have a passive attitude towards additional education institutions, which do not want to take responsibility, arguing that a general education school is enough. Here there is a need to convey to society as a whole the importance of additional education institutions in modern world. Explain that a child cannot be left to his own devices when all kinds of modern technologies become available to him. The younger generation, who have not yet developed spiritual and moral values, will not always be able to distinguish truth from deception, material wealth from real values. Related to this is that they will begin to perceive information that destroys spiritual and moral values ​​from the Internet, television, and computer games.

Measures to prevent addiction to modern technologies include the following:

1. Establish clear requirements for the use of the Internet and require their mandatory implementation.
2. An effective method of combating Internet addiction is the use of various monitoring programs. There is a “Game Control” program, for example, it can distinguish the educational process from play activity. At educational process no action occurs, and when entering the game the monitor will go dark.
3. From the first day a computer appears, it is imperative to show the minor all the possibilities of a “new friend”: to receive the necessary and useful information, with the help of it to develop intellectually. In this way, a teenager will develop a culture of communication with a computer.
4. Position new technology where it is most convenient to control its use by minors, which may have Negative influence on him.
5. In modern conditions, it is impossible to isolate a teenager from modern technologies. However, various ways to neutralize the negative information impact of technology can be thought out.

As a result of considering this problem, we can say that work to counter the influence of modern technologies on the younger generation should be carried out on a large scale, regularly and systematically, in close cooperation, first of all with parents, then teachers and other specialists who are involved in the development of the child’s abilities.

Bibliography:

1. Gridchin M.M. "Problems of influence information technologies for youth” / M.M. Gridchin // Power. – 2007. – No. 9.
2. Panov S.S. “Internet addiction: causes and consequences / S.S. Panov // Teacher. – 2007. – No. 5.
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Reviews:

09.15.2014, 18:07 Bondarevsky Arkady Samuilovich
Review: The work is devoted to the topical issue of the influence of IT technologies on the younger generation. Its novelty lies in the identification of the main channels of influence of IT technologies on people and ways of stopping those impacts that are undesirable. The work is written in clear language. I have no comments on the content. The work may be recommended for publication. A.S. Bondarevsky. Question to the authors (irrespective of the review, in the order of curiosity): Science is structured information that has its own theory (applied only and only for this information): formalized (to be uninterpretable) theorems, equations, laws and rules. Please tell me ( [email protected]) those for the science of sociology. Sincerely. Bondarevsky.

09.22.2014, 23:51 Nazarova Olga Petrovna
Review: The article is relevant because The dependence of the modern generation on IT technologies is obvious. Recommended for printing.

02/17/2015, 23:44 Guzhvenko Elena Ivanovna
Review: The topics covered in the article are undoubtedly very important. However, the measures identified by the author to prevent dependence on modern technologies are copied from an article by S.S. Panov. even without copyright corrections and references (http://www.elib.grsu.by/katalog/167185-367676.pdf). I think it is necessary to either refer to the original, putting the text in quotation marks, or paraphrase it. After finalization, the article can be recommended for publication. And one more thing... you can write recommendations, but how to actually implement them??? Perhaps in the article a classification of control programs should be made, because not only teenagers need to be protected from games, but also from wasting time on social networks, on sites that are not needed for cognitive activity... Good luck in mastering difficult topics.

Every day we use computers, tablets and smartphones. When we are bored, we go to social networks, read news on VK and Facebook, look at photos on Instagram, and chat with friends in instant messengers. Unbeknownst to ourselves, we waste a lot of time and cannot do anything about it.

The constant availability of the Internet and technology has changed the way we spend free time. According to a PCMag study of more than 650 people, about 64% of respondents sometimes feel like they use their smartphone “too much,” and 66% say they sleep with their phones. Technology has changed the way people interact, relate to the world, and think.

There is no doubt that technology has made our lives better. We started interacting with each other more, became more organized and productive, and if we don’t know something, we immediately look it up on the Internet.

Applications, games, touch screens and websites are designed to be intuitive and as enjoyable as possible to use. This leads to interaction with technology becoming a smooth and seamless process. As we spend more time looking at screens and immersed in information space, the question arises, what happens to our brain when we type and scroll on a smartphone? How do applications, games and social networks work, and how do they attract the attention of users? How does technology affect our attention, sleep and habits? What differentiates healthy technology use from addiction, and how is it treated?

The moment you understand general models behavior and psychological techniques, which are used in the digital world, it will become easier for you to control your habits and balance them.

What is technology addiction?

The American Society for the Study of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) characterizes it by five factors:

Inability to abstain for long periods of time.

Behavioral control disorder.

A passionate desire to gain access to the object of dependence.

Change social behavior and problems in interpersonal communication.

Violation of emotional reactions.

People don't like the word "addiction", and to simplify it all, the term can be defined as an experience that you return to uncontrollably. This is a positive thing at first, but over time it degrades your standard of living - emotionally, financially, psychologically and social plans, and often in aggregate.

Adam Alter in the book "Technological Development, addictive” states that anyone can become addicted to something at any time. There is a myth that there is a difference between people with addiction and people without addiction. Alter is convinced that she is not there.

It is important to know how addiction is related to obsession and craving. Alter argues that obsession is a mental phenomenon. It can exist exclusively in a person’s head and have no external manifestations. Drive is an uncontrollable impulse to do something. Addiction includes both phenomena, which results in repetitive behavior.

In turn, Dr. Larry Rosen believes that all these phenomena can be caused by feelings of anxiety. His latest book is The Distracted Mind. Ancient brain in the world high technology" reveals what happens to the brain when we exchange messages, tweet, browse news feed. Together with his colleague Nancy Cheever, he conducted several studies on this issue.

They found that the typical 25-year-old unlocks their phone an average of 56 times per day and uses it for about 220 minutes per day (4 minutes per unlock). The study also found that when a person receives a notification and is unable to view it immediately, they experience a spike in anxiety. This applies to both phones and social networks. A person feels the need to do everything more action to have fun.

How we are being sucked in by technology

Sometimes there is too much technology in our lives. They can cause us to lose sleep or gain weight. They can affect our relationships with loved ones. We feel overwhelmed due to constant messaging. We would rather leave the house without underwear or a belt than without a smartphone, since it has become an integral part of our daily lives.

Dr. Susan Greenfield compares the Internet to a giant slot machine and a smartphone to a child. According to a study of the psychology of people addicted to slot machines, they get more pleasure not from winning, but from the process of the game - pressing buttons and levers. This is what makes them spend hours playing the game. This phenomenon is called the “game loop”. It occurs when a person picks up a smartphone and starts scrolling.

The user logs into Facebook or VKontakte, reads posts, checks his mail, looks at Instagram stories, responds to messages and returns to reading the news again to see what’s new. So 20-30 minutes or more pass. All of these platforms are designed to be the most intuitive: you can open and start using them without spending time figuring out how they work. Dr. Alter says we continue to use technology because it's easy and doesn't require extra effort on our part.

This is how all digital products are created: the first version is released, tested, improved and released to the market. Large companies are constantly updating their products to make them as easy to use as possible.

How to control addiction?

To learn how to control addiction, Adam Alter offers a behavioral architecture model. It is a theory about how to create space around yourself and consciously change the way you interact with technology.

For example, you need to stop thinking about how far away your smartphone is. Alter says you need to consciously remove it for a few hours a day, as well as at night. Then he will not be distracted during sleep.

Notifications are also a major irritant. To get rid of addiction, you need to turn them off and start checking your phone less often.

Set a timer and check your messages only when he calls, not more often. Also let your friends know that you won't be able to be in touch all the time.

More often than not, technology distracts us because we allow it to. By creating your own boundaries, you can take back control of your attention and time.

To the question: Does the introduction of new technologies affect people? given by the author Caucasian the best answer is Are you talking about Nano technology?? ?
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constant development computer technology The number of people actively using computers for work purposes, as well as those who are overly addicted to computer games and using the Internet, the so-called computer addicts (by the term addict we will mean dependent users), is growing. Like everything innovative, the younger generation (10-30 years old) is more susceptible to the influence of new technologies.
In Western countries there is an official term "pathological computer use". Currently, this term (“pathological computer use”) is used for that category of people who pathologically use the computer in general, including types of use that are not related to social ones. Although the existence of psychological dependence on computer games and the use of the Internet still raises doubts, both among specialists and people themselves who are interested in modern computer technologies.
Mainly, dependence on modern computer technologies is expressed in two main forms:
Internet addiction (Internet addiction)
excessive passion for computer games.
These two forms have both common features, and the differences.
General features computer addiction is a characteristic series of psychological and physical symptoms that are closely related to each other:
Psychological symptoms:
good health or euphoria at the computer;
inability to stop;
increasing the amount of time spent at the computer;
neglect of family and friends;
feelings of emptiness, depression, irritation when not at the computer;
lying to employers or family members about your activities;
problems with work or study.
Physical symptoms:
carpal tunnel syndrome (tunnel damage to the nerve trunks of the hand associated with prolonged muscle strain);
dry eyes;
migraine-type headaches;
back pain;
irregular eating, skipping meals;
neglect of personal hygiene;
sleep disorders, changes in sleep patterns.
Pathological computer use may not be as dangerous in its impact on a person as, for example, alcoholism or drug addiction (chemical dependencies). However, it is obvious that computer addiction still negatively affects a person’s personality.
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Here is a transcript of an interview conducted by Nir Eyal, a renowned business consultant and entrepreneur, with David Burkus, an award-winning psychology, leadership and business podcast host and professor of management at Oral Roberts University College of Business. (Oral Roberts University) and the author of the bestselling book “ A new style management. Unexpected facts about managing great organizations" (New Management: the Unexpected Truths about Leading Great Organizations). This conversation focused on topics such as technology obsession and maintaining work-life balance. Enjoy reading.

Nir: When companies come to me asking how they can make a product that can do , about half the time I have to apologize and say that they have no chance. Eat whole line criteria, by analyzing which we can say whether a particular product has the potential to form a habit or not. But that doesn't mean these companies should go out of business; they may well become successful without such products.

Have you ever looked at a company and said, “Hey, your workplace doesn't look exciting enough. You won’t get high returns from people, everything is pretty standard, routine work”? Or does every company have the potential to create more interesting products?

David: There are professions that are not destined to become the subject of children's dreams. But even taking this into account, you can always find companies that strive to properly equip working space employees.

From an organizational behavior perspective, we tend to rely on Frederick Taylor, the father of scientific management. It belongs to him best ideas about how to manage a factory and people whose job is to repeat the same operations over and over again and solve the same problems. But most people today are not engaged in this kind of work, and Taylorism is becoming something of a bogeyman: “Dull, dull and monotonous work is still the main object of the claims of scientific management, but for working with information we need more autonomy and a higher workspace. quality."

Nir: By at least, workspaces give people the opportunity to create communities, build relationships. Even if the work itself leaves much to be desired, perhaps it is the care of team members for each other that becomes the saving grace that helps to overcome various kinds of difficulties.

David: It's true, we are all responsible for each other. In Taylor's era there were only two things: labor and management - and management's job was to tell workers what to do. The idea that we are all in the same boat and can collectively overcome any challenge is as old as time, but in the world of management it is still something new.

Nir: How expensive could such autonomy be? Think about the Hawthorne effect, which states that people perform better at their jobs when they feel they are being watched. What do you think about this?

David: The Hawthorne effect, in my opinion, is the presence of contact, the connectedness of people with each other. Productivity begins to increase when people feel that you pay attention to their work and that you care. This is the connection.

Employees often make this known to their employers or clients, who are told, “We want feedback" This only works if you then say, “Okay, we hear you, and here's what we'll do.” The fact that we listen to each other and make changes based on your needs means that care and attention matter.

Nir: It is the understanding that I am not being controlled; that I am capable of exerting some influence.

David: Exactly. We follow the trend that the more often people can communicate with each other, the higher the quality of their collaboration. Nowadays it increasingly seems like we are being overburdened. Email, social media, and now we need to break the habit of using them so we can focus on the right things.

If I understand your work correctly, all these things are natural for this kind of product, but what to do with them?

Nir: We live in a world where there are so many great products and services that it can sometimes be difficult to turn down them. Plus, many of them are free and easily accessible. In many ways, this can be considered a blessing, but Sophocles also said that “nothing great enters the life of mortals without a curse.”

This happens with every revolution. For the first time in history everything more people more people die from excess calories rather than from deficiency, and more people die from excess rather than from starvation. This is the problem with agriculture. The Industrial Revolution gave us mechanization - no one wants to go back to the age of steam engines - but now we have a man-made pollution problem.

It should be noted that in the current information age The main disadvantage of all these products and services that can instantly connect us with each other is that attention itself becomes a scarce resource. This is the price we are forced to pay. We are the first generation to have to master all these technologies. For our children and grandchildren, all this will not seem like something out of the ordinary. They quickly adapt to all this, but for us all these technologies will always remain something new, and we have not yet figured out what place to give them in our lives.

We still haven't figured out the main question: does technology serve us, or do we serve it? The boogeyman of my industry is B.F. Skinner and the Skinner boxes that keep people pushing buttons all day long. But the reality is that it has nothing to do with coercion. People do this willingly and voluntarily.

For the most part, all of these things are great. But there are also people who have not only become accustomed to new technologies, but have become dependent on them, but the majority will still be able to put their smartphones on the shelf without much difficulty and not touch them. Most people moderate their behavior.

But the catch is that these people cannot do without these technologies at work. Without the same work email and instant messengers. People are not dependent on technology, they are dependent on their work.

David: Why is work email so addictive? When you signed up in 2008, you wouldn't think you'd voluntarily sign up to take work home every night, but that's exactly what we've come to. Previously, there were workers available on request, they were given Blackberry phones, and even then we should have taken this as a kind of warning.

Do you really think that we are actually so addicted to work that if we gave up work email, would we still have the feeling of having to continue working 24/7?

Nir: Let's say that tomorrow you win $20,000,000 in the lottery. And now you don't need to hang around in the office all day long. Will you still use Slack? Will you still be using SharePoint or Salesforce? No, you will stop using all these programs and services because the only reason you used them is because your boss said so. Most people won't say, "Oh my God, I can't leave my job because I love using Salesforce so much." Is not software, it's a burden of work. It's "my boss is waiting for me, my clients are waiting for me, we have to be in touch all the time."

This is the real source of the problem. Tools make it worse, but if you take away one of the variables, you will see that people will very quickly stop using these technologies unless they are in their workplace. This is not the case in the consumer internet when it comes to Facebook and Twitter. People love to use these products, but this is a different category of service where the product itself has perhaps more influence than the user. When it comes to corporate products, many people, if 20,000,000 suddenly fell on them, would never check their work email.

David: If 20 million fell on me, I would go to Facebook, but only to talk about my winnings.

When I look at research into the factors that increase employee productivity, I immediately think of K. Anders Ericsson's research on mindful practice. One of the study's findings was that people who achieved world-class excellence in their profession took more time off than the average person. Their work session was 90 minutes, and then they took a break.

We understand that the less time we work, the more valuable that time becomes. When you are involved in work day and night, no one will tell you “go home, be with your wives, children and loved ones.” Is there anything we can do on an individual level to protect ourselves and work only a certain amount of hours?

Nir: There is a wonderful book called “Sleeping with Your Smartphone.” The author, Leslie Purlow, conducted the research for Boston Consulting Group. She gave the company's employees a simple task: "What can you do to give each team member one night of rest?" Many consultants at the firm said this was impossible: “We are in the service industry; our customers expect 24-hour service from us.”

Then she asked, “What would it take for you to be able to develop such a system?” In her research, she discovered that it was not just technology. It was about what didn't happen open channels communications between these consulting teams that may raise sensitive issues.

We see a similar situation everywhere. We see this in the family. Why does dad watch football every evening? Why can't we get together and talk as a family instead of sitting in front of the TV in the evenings? Why do teenagers disappear on their phones all day long?

Perhaps it is not new technologies that are to blame for this. Perhaps we are just trying to escape from something. Maybe this happens because there are no established lines of communication, communication that can solve these problems. If anyone thinks that we are truly addicted to technology, I think it's not just technology. This is something to think about. “What am I running from? Why do I feel discomfort because I’m bored for just a few minutes?”

David: The book “Under New Management” offers a bunch of different practices. One of them is a complete ban or severe restriction on the use of email. People ask, “That's great, but how can we add it to our company culture?” But the truth is that these are not practices of addition, these are practices of elimination. They reason something like this: “Wait a minute. I want to do my job the best way, but if something gets in my way, I have to remove it.”
In some cases it's email, in others it's the hiring process, in others it's a performance review system. The people who are best at their jobs should have the right to kill sacred cows. But we all prefer to follow the already established order.

Nir: These habits of mind, the urge to act as before, permeate many areas of our lives. The worst thing we can do is believe that technology controls us.

Research shows that drug addicts who believe that the drug controls them, that they are powerless against dope, have high level relapses. If we start to believe that email is addictive or that disaster will happen if we don't respond in a timely manner. incoming letter, if we consider ourselves powerless in the face of technology, that’s what we will become.

David: The real problem is the feeling that these things control us. A real problem companies - the belief that they control their employees. We live in an era where truly talented leaders understand that every person is essentially a free agent and always has the opportunity to leave and find another job.

Organizations' assumption that they can control and model employee behavior is dangerous. A person continues to work for you only as long as you give him what he needs. Once it's gone, he's gone.

We spent a lot of time talking about changing behavior and questioning many beliefs. Was there something that controlled you, but when you started to question it, you changed your behavior?

Nir: My greatest successes in life have come from questioning my core beliefs. Some of them were very personal. When I was 18, I took a year off between school and college. This was in 1997. AmeriCorps, the domestic peace corps, had just been launched by the Clinton administration. I was in my first or second year when I decided to give it a try. Everyone around me told me: “This is a stupid idea. You won't want to go back to college again." My parents begged me not to do this. Now we call it a year of rest, a gap year, but then no one did that. It was one of the best things I've ever done.

David: Your path is more philosophical than mine.

I currently use two devices. One for email work, writing and social media. At the end of the day I switch to my iPad, which I use mostly for entertainment: Facebook, Netflix and more.

Strategy for working with by email through two devices is a great way to understand whether you are dependent on it or not. If you, while using another device, constantly reach for the one on which mail is available, then you are addicted.

Nir: Very useful advice. I'll give you one more.

A few years ago, I discovered that around 10 pm, when I should have gone to bed, I spent time on the Internet, reading articles, watching videos, etc., and did not go to bed on time. Then I purchased an inexpensive timer socket and connected the router to it. As soon as the time reached 10, the timer turned off the Internet. Of course, if I wanted, I could turn it back on, but for this I had to do additional actions. But even this was enough for me to ask myself one simple question: do I really need the Internet to get anything done, or am I wasting my time? It's a simple question, but it makes a big difference.