That’s the term coming to mind these days.
No one seems to have any. Everyone is using their phones the way you would scratch your shoulder: immediately, without warning, just not caring about anything at all.
It’s absolutely destroying society. I am witnessing it in real time, and it’s something. No one seems to realize it, as most everyone is doing it. I’m not because I was lucky to see the negative effects of phone addiction extremely early on, and I’m pretty good at resisting peer pressure.
The lack of digital hygiene is akin to farting and burping loudly whenever you feel like it. In line at the grocery store. In the elevator. Right in front of other folks on a sidewalk. While your supervisor or your mom is talking to you. At a wedding. After sex. While teaching. You get the idea.
Wearing wireless earbuds while scrolling is like farting and burping AND not hearing or smelling yourself. You become content and disrespectful to, disconnected from your direct environment in ways previously impossible to reach.
And we let that happened, somehow. All VCs and SV really, really wanted their 10x returns so they said fuck it, let’s trick them all. Let’s abuse people as efficiently as possible, using the latest research on human psychology.
I don’t know what to do. I’m just happy to not be like that. Having good digital hygiene is a bit lonely. But I worry about the rest of the world.
This scale, it’s no good.