Your Phone is Distracting You More Than You Might Think. Here’s How.

The harmful effects of overusing your phone and how you can stop it.

Biliz Maharjan
3 min readDec 8, 2023

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Photo by Charis Gegelman on Unsplash

I had to check an important message from a client on my phone this morning.

I opened my phone, and my subconscious quickly opened Instagram instead of the message. I found some exciting reels, so I kept scrolling. Then, I was watching people’s stories.

A new email popped up. I read the mail and then opened Facebook.

“Five new notifications? They must be from the article I shared with the group the other day.”

I was in a seemingly unending loop of switching between apps. I had forgotten why I picked up my phone in the first place — to check my client’s message.

It came to my attention after 20 minutes of mindless scrolling and app-switching.

WTF?

I was shocked.

The sad part is that it isn’t the first time something like this has happened. Often, I would be using random apps on my phone and then realize, “Why did I pick up the phone initially?”

I have way more important things to do than scrolling through my phone. Yet, I spend almost two hours daily on the device, 90 percent of which is

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Biliz Maharjan
Biliz Maharjan

Written by Biliz Maharjan

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