This talk was given at a neighborhood TEDx event, generated separately of the TED Conferences. We are all a little bit too attached to our mobile phones as well as web-connected tools. Dr. Youthful assists identify warning signs of Web dependency as well as what we can do to take care of innovation in our lives. She also asks "Exactly how young is also young?" for screen time, alerting parents concerning the risks of innovation usage in children as young as two. She provides approaches for exactly how we can construct "Display Smart" colleges, as well as introduces her brand-new 3-6-9-12 Parenting Standards for handling tech usage in the house.
Psychologist Dr. Kimberly Young introduced the first research study on web addiction in 1995, created "Caught in the Net" in 1998, and also has functioned since to establish and discuss research and also therapy for a rapidly advancing issue.
Youthful is a professor at St. Bonaventure University and founder and director of the Facility for Web Addiction Healing in Bradford, Pa. She started the initial inpatient clinic for Internet dependency healing in the USA at the Bradford Regional Medical Center as well as her work has been included in The New york city Times, Newsweek, Time, USAToday, CNN, Fox News, Greetings America, MSNBC Information, and The Today Program.
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I think it’s true that giving an iPad for a child is a harmful and not wise action
Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge on such an important issue.
Thank you so much your insight and knowledge! Your work is a great resource for informing therapy in this area.
Thank you Janelle. My life’s work has to been educate others on the possible downside of Internet use and its potential for addiction. Hopefully for each us, we can find a positive balance with using technology without being consumed by it.
Thank you for sharing your insight. I think it’s important to note, as you do, that you aren’t talking about quitting technology or quitting the internet – which might be impossible – but likening internet addiction to a food addiction. You need to set boundaries and know your limits. Responsible use in moderation. Thanks.
You never really know how addicted you are to the internet and how productive you can be until you no longer have it. A year ago we didn’t have the Internet for like 2 months or so. And before when our internet was not on I got really bored. I started writing and I’d be angry all the time. I was agitated and on edge. I would come home from school and try the computer to see if it would work. I couldn’t focus on anything. I was bored mad.
Within the last year I spent a few months off the Internet at home and I started reading. I read a new book every few days. And over time my writing improved and I found myself speaking clearly and I felt a lot better and more productive. Now I’m back to using the Internet and feeling wrong. I’m thinking about taking a break or lowering my usage of Social Media.
Internet addiction needs to be taken seriously.
When I dramatically cut my technology use, I was finally able to read books again. I went years with out reading because I couldn’t concentrate enough to read a few pages let alone a book.
I used to heavily disagree with idea of technology being addictive for years. I’m 20, and I completely agree now. If I was forbidden or restricted in using internet, I think I would have never come to this, and one day when I get “off the chain”, I would completely destroy my life, not ever stopping to take perspective.
Please don’t be harsh when you limit your kids and loved ones. Only give them perspective, wisdom and love, but do not restrain or limit them. They need to see it for themselves.
I seriously believe that internet/video games/ porn cause some kind of brain damage. I used to be so intelligent growing up. I was the top of my class. When i was 16 my Father bought me a laptop and i started spending hours online and also watching porn. I also played a lot of playstation. All of a sudden my cognitive abilities declined. I started developing social anxiety and depression. Was it the internet? Maybe. But all i know is every time when i spend a lot of time on the internet / video games/ porn it ruins my mind.
I just completed a course through University of Colorado on Gender Differences in Learning Processes and the course was largely based on Gurian’s research. In the course text, research that suggests young children (before 3rd grade) who are allowed to play lots of video games and use technology unbridled are indeed making strong neural connections. However, these connections tend to be ones in the right hemisphere of the brain, and that AT THE EXPENSE OF THE CONNECTIONS in the left cerebral hemisphere. The left side is used for verbal-linguistic tasks. No wonder we are seeing more and more reading deficits in students!
I’d like to see the whole internet shut down for a month or two so that the whole world is forced to interact more and have a complete break from the online world.
My weakness and addiction to the Internet has destroyed my concentration, many relationships, and generally made me unsocial. When I have to leave my house, I can’t wait to get back home and get back on the computer. I’ve wasted years that I will never get back. I’ve destroyed my own life with technology.
I’m so glad somebody finally addressed this! Having this in mind has seriously changed my life for the best.
My internet went off for 3 minutes
I met my family
They were nice people
What a great talk, a lot to think about for sure. I’ve been addicted to internet and social media in the beginning. I was 12 when I had my first computer and I think around 13 when I had internet at home and it’s always been struggle to balance it. I needed to learn for myself what was ‘ too much time’ and figure out that spending hours online wasn’t making me happy at all. I felt even more sad and sorry for myself, jealous of all the cool people who did wonderful things, who had ‘ a life’. I’ve changed over the years, learning that people mostly lie on the internet and only show the good things in their lives. I’m now trying to see the internet as a tool to learn, connect and grow and it’s helping me spend less time online.
I really liked Dr.Young’s three tips, they sound so simple but it’s really hard at first. But, it does help so I’ll keep doing it, with ups and downs.
The times I’ve had no internet were some of the happiness, most productive times of my life. I am addicted and working on getting un-hooked.
Same. I dropped the few other hobbies I had years ago. I don’t know what to do with myself when I’m not on the computer. I think it’s made my vision much worse too.
I used to read 3-5 books a week before internet was as prolific as it was. From 1998-2003 I would tear through books in hours flat, it gave me great writing skills, so much that I was graded at a masters level when I was in grade 7. The internet has completely stopped that, now I struggle to even read through a few chapters at a time, and get distracted quite easily. It has a very pronounced effect on ones being, something thats addressed not nearly enough in todays society.
I agree
I listen audiobooks on youtube, before bed. So you can turn internet into something good, if you want…
@Chaos Completely agreed, Chaos, that this problem isn’t talked about nearly enough in society today. In fact, if anything, commercials pretty much encourage you to get a cell phones. The commercials are often cheery and filled with happy people, making it look like it’s a cool and happy thing to have a cell phone or to get an ‘app’ for what ever it is you want to look up or buy. I never hear anyone in society complain about this except me to my friends! And I want to say, though you’re struggling right now with your addiction, at least you’ve admitted you have a problem and are addressing it. Good for you for that!
Thank you for everything you have done. May you rest in peace Kimberly.
That resonates eerily…
RIP.
According to Wikipedia, Dr. Young died of cancer on February 28, 2019 at age 53.
Did I ghostwrite this?? Because I was also the smart kid in my class until I got a phone in 9th grade. After that I started spending more time watching cartoons and youtube and didn’t pay as much attention to studying. Although it could also do with the fact that I was naturally smart but that doesn’t mean help me as much in high school, and I never needed to study before. I just wish I could throw my phone in the ocean.
😂 😂 😂
So original lol
Talk to each other? Are you kidding? Somebody might get killed…LOL:)
From the web… “What is the answer to 99 out of 100 questions? Money.
It is not the publicly-held companies. It is the power of money to control, persuade, influence, or even empower.”
Lmaooooooo, they were nice people 😅
Man In The Arena Agree. Brain fog and unable to focus on things even you push yourself to focus.
@Game Quitters Hey Cam I tried your Challenge program, I Liked it I also think that you should suggest people about the Wim Hof breathing method
I go on my smartphone too much though don’t watch much TV, I was thinking about how society is staring at one screen or another a lot of the time and made something on here, if anyone wants to see it?…then just type in search bar above the following title…..’Addicted to a screen’
At some point I removed the internet from my apartment for around 3 months. I was attending an art school at the time and the first difference I noticed was that I was able to study for things I wasn’t interested in at all. We had an art history exam. I didn’t have any interest in the subject, but yet I had no problems sitting down and study for it. I gained the discipline of a samurai. My creativity could also run freely. I had lots of ideas in my head and had the discipline and drive to make those ideas come true. It was a fantastic time. I think the internet can be really harmful for creative people.
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Same here. Life was better without Internet.
It does. It causes so many problems that can even lead to drug addictions. 😕 sounds strange . But it’s true.
@Delphine thanks
Unfortunately this is becoming even more true with time even if compulsory information seeking disorder is an extreme form of internet addiction. I hope that people in the future will more often know that internet addiction is an addiction on a similar level as casino addiction and with that, will be more able to cope with it ☹️
As a kid I went to a 2 week camp a few years in a row. It was amazing- everything was structured (with choices, but sitting around in the tents wasn’t one) and we had only 45minutes after our swim-time/showers to lay in our beds for a nap or whatever. I lost so much weight and it really helped kickstart my fitness journey. ❤️
Lmao
I’m a bit late but I totally agree with you. I’m in college now and I find my studies interesting, but I’m just not learning as fluidly and naturally like I used to before I did all those things
@Dwellceller I was taking you seriously until you mentioned the fall of Rome and I realized you’ve done five minutes of research and now are assuming you’re an expert. If social media is so terrible, disconnect, man. Stop starting fights in YouTube comment sections.
@mistercicero5 And yet you didn’t address the point I’m making in reference to Rome & how human selfishness & greed & self destruction has always grown exponentially as each empire has risen to it’s zenith in technology. Stay asleep man.. enjoy the Matrix.. it’s coming to an end soon. I’m less and less on the net as time goes by and loving it..
Depends on the use.
I was very fortunate to have that kind of tech at a young age because it taught me what has now become a sort of job and hobby for me, programming. The issue isn’t the tech, it’s what they do with the tech that harms them.
I spend all day on the internet and im not that bad and plus we should do any thing because i china they have concentration camps to help with “internet addiction” and a kid who wasnt even in there for 12 hourse got beaten to death for no reason the internet helps people get away from their stress from the day just like alcohol ciggarets and drugs but the internet is way better than the alternative am i right or am i wrong here
you just gave me hope
Switchback
Same here
i respect your opinion. counter argument: giving an iPad to a child, putting youtube kids on for them, turning on autoplay and leaving them to their own devices is a harmful and unwise action
May she Rest In Peace
Yes, I’m in for this.
@Officer Barbrady Klayton fan since 1992
This and your other comment are exactly what I needed to hear.
Thank you for the hope
We need to start a weekly meeting like AA.
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Honestly I would love to get back the time with my kids when they were little and I was gaming trying not to think about my failing relationships. The moral of the story, life is short. Internet/games/virtual stuff will always be there. Accomplishments there don’t mean as much as in the real world.
Well I mean it should be used in moderation because we can find information to references that weren’t so easily accessible before, but yes there should be boundaries.
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