We consult our cell phone 221 times a day on average, or more than 1,500 times a week (Tecmark, 2014).
We are even a third to use it at the table (Kantar, 2019) and 66% to suffer from nomophobia, this panic fear of being separated from it (SecurEnvoy survey, 2012).
And, far from offering us a healthy “digital diet”, our hyperconnection has worsened further with teleworking and confinements… How has this digital blanket taken up so much space in our lives?
Why must we learn to better control our digital uses?
“The need to disconnect today concerns more and more socio-professional categories,
assures Catherine Lejealle, sociologist, researcher at the ISC Paris group and author of
I stop being hyperconnected!
(Eyrolles, 2015).
What changed the situation is the arrival of e-mail on our phones, the switch to much cheaper unlimited subscriptions and the extension of free Wi-Fi which allows us to consult the internet.
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