Summary Of How I Am Beating My Smartphone Addiction By Bershidsky

In an article by Leonid Bershidsky, titled “How I’m Beating My Smartphone Addiction” (2017), he explains that the addiction to our smartphones is like a drug addiction. He uses an anecdote to share how his experience with his addiction was similar to a person on drugs, in a serious tone he states, “I was submerged in the cozy haze of smartphone addiction, and it's hard to say how it differed from substance abuse.” Forced teaming was also involved to get us to want to change our ways. The author suggests that smartphone users must realize the severity of the issue. Bershidsky article was directed toward smartphone users who were in the same situation he was in.
Bershidsky makes the point in the beginning of the article that phone addiction are not just for the “kids”. He is a 45 year old recovering addict and at the peak of his addiction he was checking his phone five times an hour. The personal example makes it feel more inclusive and relatable. He then provides the background information about how it all started, stating, “I think I got hooked because of my job.” The anecdote goes more in depth and tell us more about him,
It got progressively easier with email, the internet, search engines, social networks, and mobile communication. I could follow developments in several countries through a network of Facebook friends; in Ukraine, politicians became so addicted to Facebook that it became almost pointless to talk to them. In the U.S., much of the high-level political debate occurs on Twitter thanks in no small part to its tweeter in chief. I told myself that maintaining accounts on every social network was necessary for work, but that was absurd: most of these posts and videos were useless to me as a