Dr Anders Hansen

I'm not going to pick up my phone.

So it steals some of your mental bandwidth just by being around.

And we feel guilty for this.

We feel, you know, I have a bad character because I can't help myself picking up all the time.

But we shouldn't because these are incredibly powerful stimuli.

And again, someone is making money from that.

Exactly.

There was a journalist that came home to Steve Jobs and he thought that there would be iPads everywhere and all the screens in every room and there weren't.

He was very restrictive on how much his kids could use iPads.

And remember, Steve Jobs is one of the persons who had the biggest insights on how technology affects us ever.

And he himself was cautious about using it too much.

That says something.

The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, has said that if you are looking at the screen more than you are looking at someone's eyes, you're doing something wrong.

So the CEO of the company that makes the most money from screens says, don't use our products too much.

That says something on how incredibly addictive these things are and how naive we have been in implementing them so widely.

And again, especially toward children.

And as I said before, I think the main impact of digital life on our well-being is not what we do online, but what we don't do when we are online.

We don't sleep as much, we don't exercise as much, and we don't meet online.

But there is a big caveat to this, and that is overusage of social media seems to be dangerous for teenagers.

For girls in the age 12 to 13, boys 14 to 15.