i wonder if it's sometimes more pernicious for for girls and women. One of the things about the internet that makes it completely different than any form of media or information ever before is that there are no boundaries. Do you recommend setting up boundaries at home? Like, how do ad your wife manage this? You have like, sort of a no phone policy at dinner? Or yes, you you have to. It will absorb your life. If you don't manage your screens, they will absolutely manage you. Otherwise they will control your life. i was recently watching a show with ice tea,. the a wrapper, you may remember, and he was saying how his wife is like a
James is head over heels in love with his wife. But there’s one thing that keeps getting in between them … the glow of her smartphone. His wife is constantly scrolling social media or staging photo ops with James and their kids to create a picture perfect life online. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Dr. David Greenfield, the founder of The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction, to help James understand why it’s so hard for his wife to log off. He has some fascinating advice for how to wean yourself off social media and reconnect IRL without creating a bigger rift in the relationship.
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