Technology is meant to simplify our daily lives, not to make it more difficult. However today, you will find every other individual attached or, to be exact, tied to his smartphone. People pay more attention to their smartphones than their family, friends or relatives. Unfortunately, such devices have made us their slaves and now find ourselves quickly responding to every other beep of our phones than the voice of our parents or siblings.
Although cell phones are a necessity in the current era as it allows us to get in touch with distant recipients with a single tap, we’ve started taking this necessity to the extent that it is now affecting our lives in a “not-so-productive” fashion. To make our life get back on the right track and to utilize things as they are supposed to be used, we need to take things in our own hands and reform the ways we use smartphones.
Following is a list of some useful tips that can help you control your smartphone obsession:
Keep Your Smarthphone Settings On Custom
People are so addicted to their smartphones that if you call them for an important work, they ask us to wait for a second just to check some useless texts. The best way to control that habit is to keep your unimportant calls or texts on silent so that you won’t get disturbed again and again by the beeping of text or call. Receive only urgent calls when you are busy working or studying and change back the setting in your leisure time. It is one of the best ideas that I consider best to overcome smartphone addiction.
Change Your Status
You can put your social status to ‘busy’ or ‘urgent calls only’ so that people won’t disturb you on social networks like Viber, WhatsApp and Facebook. This way your time will be saved from useless chit chat.
Set Usage Time Limits
Take 10 to 20 minutes three times a day to check your wall or update status on your social pages. Do this for another two to three weeks and you will see a considerable change in your usage of smartphone.
Leave The Phone In Another Room
It is not necessary that you keep your handset with you all the time. People know that they are contacting you through a smarthphone not face to face. It might take time to respond from your side. They won’t say you anything if you pick up the phone and reply to them a few seconds late. Keep your mobile in a room other than the one you are in. However, make it sure that the volume is high so that you may clearly hear the tone when it is rung.
Use App Lock
Another best way to put a leash on your obsession is to use apps to lockdown all your apps you are insanely addicted to. Ask someone else in your family to set a password on all applications in your phone and request them to not tell you.
Set Password To Your Wi-Fi
Most of the apps on smarthphone require continuous internet connectivity. Many of the apps will become useless for you when there will be no Wi-Fi to access. You may set time limits for Wi-Fi as well so that when your time is over, your Wi-Fi will be closed automatically.
Stop Notifications
One of an effective trick to stay away from your smarthphone is to stop notifications from all the social networks so you won’t get disturbed again and again by the beep of notifications.
Author Bio: Harlan Sebastian is a MMORPG geek. While not working, he’s seen on WOW slashing and dashing other Players with his mighty axe. Other than being a funky game enthusiast, he’s also a passionate writer, currently serving his talent at www.essaylabs.co.uk one of the best essay consultants out there.
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