{"id":3626,"date":"2026-09-23T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:25:16","slug":"week-4-jack-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/week-4-jack-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4 &#8211; Jack Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Phone benefits and harms<\/p>\n<p>Benefits<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phones help us stay in contact with people who are physically far away in a way that was not possible for the vast majority of human history, allowing for near instant transfer of information<\/li>\n<li>Phones provide us with entertainment, be it videos, games, photography, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Phones allow us to remember things we would otherwise forget via notes or recordings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Harms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is the potential for technology addiction, and as such, wasted time and anxiety when not using the phone.<\/li>\n<li>Since everyone has a phone, and all these phones have cameras, people are being recorded much more than they were in the past. This is affecting peoples&#8217; behavior. For the most part, most people don&#8217;t want to be potentially recorded all the time.<\/li>\n<li>Arguably, perhaps humans were not &#8220;meant&#8221; to be so connected, it may be an overabundance of information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. Good friction and bad friction<\/p>\n<p>Good friction<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clock\/timer app helps you manage your time, and wake up in the morning<\/li>\n<li>Camera app has lots of options for photography in its capacity as an actual art form<\/li>\n<li>Music apps allow you to listen to music at any time and skip around the track as much as you want easily<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bad friction<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Social media apps like TikTok have resulted in an influx of &#8220;influencers&#8221; who create &#8220;content&#8221; by &#8220;pranking&#8221; (harassing) innocent people<\/li>\n<li>People experience boredom and anxiety when they&#8217;re not able to scroll short form content<\/li>\n<li>Gambling apps can feed into peoples&#8217; addictions and cause people to needlessly lose money<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3. Pick one distressing feeling that emerges when you try a digital fast (eg boredom, anxiety, loneliness, etc)<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Then explore what changes might happen (positive and negative) if you focused some attention and energy on that feeling to meet your need in other ways? What is the point of the feeling?<\/p>\n<p>An overwhelming sense of anxiety that something is missing. Wanting to watch or listen to something at all times and being negatively affected when it&#8217;s not possible. Humanity survived the vast majority of its existence without this stuff, and suddenly most people can&#8217;t live without it. This can be remedied by gradually spending more and more time without it. It&#8217;ll get easier overtime, and the anxiety will dissipate as a result, but it may also be amplified in some way. As for satisfying the need, in person socialization is a good alternative, as is engaging in a hobby. Basically, finding analog ways to satisfy your time. It is worth noting that on some level, everyone feels bored, anxious, and lonely sometimes. It&#8217;s not always possible to fix that issue at a particular moment, so it&#8217;s worth it to learn how to just deal with it. Otherwise, I think the best way is to find an activity that is at least marginally enjoyable to occupy your mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Phone benefits and harms Benefits Phones help us stay in contact with people who are physically far away in a way that was not possible for the vast majority of human history, allowing for near instant transfer of information Phones provide us with entertainment, be it videos, games, photography, etc. Phones allow us to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-task"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}