I recently watched a documentary on the addictive nature of social media called THE SOCIAL DILEMMA
It raised a lot of questions in my own heart about how I am using time OR if it is even me using my time or perhaps Social Media is using my time for me.
I have begun making adjustments since watching this show.I have decided I will stop scrolling. I will use messenger for communication only. I will create my articles and videos and do a certain amount of reading based in targeted building of my own platform.
You know what? The whole bell “ding” thing described in the documentary is real! As soon as I put my phone away for a half a day and stopped watching Youtube and Facebook videos, I started hearing the “dings” of articles coming up that I “must watch”.
Has that always happened and I just didn’t notice it before? Or is my phone’s AI “intentionally” trying to drag me back to it? Either way…. I am a little freaked out by how I have been trained like Pavlov’s dog to respond to a bell on my phone and start scrolling again as soon as I hear the “ding”.
Have you seen the video? What do you think?
Notes From the Vicarage 
I haven’t seen the video, yet. Think I should. While I don’t have my phone set to ding, I do too much scrolling.
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I turned off my notifications so it won’t ding now, that said it initially creeped me out.
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The struggle is real! And yes it is absolutely the plan of the AI business to get us addicted to the “ding.”I have not turned my notifications off….but I put up massive boundaries. If I am with someone the phone is away. Unless I am expecting a call in which case I will tell those I am with so. We have lost an entire generation to this DING…the younger crowd knows not how to go through life without constant checking, they are insecure without it…and they have lost the art of focussed conversation and attention. Giving eye contact and actually staying in the room to speak makes so many of them uncomfortable. I practice going whole days without looking at it. We are giants in our own minds if we think the world will not continue to spin without us being able to be in contact at all times.
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I am realizing how much I have come to depend on the phone and how “naked” I feel without it. I am slowly amending this part of my life.
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