Brianna Gomez

TVs, they're on the wall, they're on the stand for a reason because you're not supposed to have it with you 24-7.

But phones, mobile phones, have made that accessible to us at all times when really,

And that's not what it was made for, to be with us and to consume our everyday life.

This thing is so ironic because it's designed to make us, oh, more social.

We're going to talk to more people.

We're going to engage with more people.

Yes, maybe online, but in your real life, the fact that studies show that percentage is actually declining because your phone, we think it's replacing social interaction.

And I am not only, I'm not even going to get into the people who have like AI girlfriends or AI horrible things, people who talk to chat TPT instead of a therapist, right?

instead of a friend.

People who can't make decisions for themselves because they're like, oh, my phone will tell me what to do.

And that's where I absolutely need to draw the line.

If those statistics don't really speak to you, let me just summarize by saying, even if you don't think there are deeper effects happening that are being caused by your phone,

there are.

They might be long-term ones that we don't even know yet, not to mention radiation, the screen time is so bad for your eyes, for your body, but even more than anything for me, it is the mental and the productivity.

For me,

I realized that when I am on my phone, I feel anxious.

And what's funny is we might go on it to not feel anxious, but then you almost get anxious to put it down because you know that when you have to put it down, you're going to have to enter the real world again.

Which, it's just funny that we even ever drew that line between our social media life and our real life.

Let's talk a little bit about...

how terrible it is to have this constant need for information.