Does any else ever get sick of being on the phone all the time?

[DrewJay]

Being on the phone all the time some times can be such a drain. At least how I feel. It can take the place of things and leave a person feeling a bit empty and missing some things in life. Does any one else feel that way?
Going to bed every one. Be back on tomorrow. Have a goodnight every one. I will be on tomorrow a bit more I know to answer some more questions here. 😄

[WhatTheHeckkkk]

Yep. My feelings fluctuate from enjoying and hating being on my phone. I often catch myself being on my phone for a few hours at a time, just scrolling watching videos or texting/calling my friends/boyfriend. Time seems to pass by because I get distracted and hyper-focus, but once I snap out of it, I get sick of it and I literally feel exhausted, drained, and bored.


The other week, I had covid and was stuck in my room for a week or two. I would sit here for hours when I was awake, just on my phone. It made time for by faster, it made me feel less lonely. Again, got tired of being on my phone and decided to clean and organize my room while I was locked inside lol.


I like to take breaks from my phone. I usually log off this site for many hours at a time, or not even touch my phone for hours, unless it’s necessary. I get bored of it eventually.

[AmandaYVR]

Yep. Sometimes the phone (and screens) feel like a cold, hard, harsh, impersonal device, piece of equipment, with this whole universe swimming around inside of it yet it shows so much ugliness about humans and the human condition and humanity.
Other times it is a toy, a tool, a great convenience, a superbly efficient way to connect with others (and of course be entertained.)
The zeitgeist seems to ebb and flow (based on world and current events); and one’s own mind and life tends to as well. Our perspective changes often, as do others’, and we influence, impart, and inflict, this on one another. The world is more connected than ever before. Maybe this is directly tied to the feelings of aloneness and dissatisfaction. More time invested (spent) in these black mirrors can either be fruitless, spent (wasted), or invested in forming deep (er) connections. But what is true, without a doubt, is there is no real, substantive, substitute for irl, in-person connection. Society is shooting themselves in the foot, by putting so much time into one, and not the other. But then it is said, through research studies, that people with few or no social connections irl benefit from online ones; whereas those with irl ones don’t benefit as much from the online.
‘Garbage in, garbage out,’ as they say in the programming world. Not all things are equal. If society chooses to sustain itself on catnip, it shouldn’t be surprised when its belly is empty. Life is hard. But it is also what we make of it. We can be part of the problem (and fluff), or part of the solution (and substance.) It seems that will be the everyman’s dilemma going forward, in this age of technology. ‘The Information Age’ is turning out more to be The Entertainment Age, with the masses ravenous for more, never satiated.