I haven't deleted Messenger from my phone, and with one click on the icon, I can find myself opening Facebook. And the creep happened the other night. "I'll just have a look." Scroll, scroll, scroll. Minutes later, I wake up from the trance. What am I doing? Is this what I actually want? That's what I'm exploring now. What do I want to use my phone for? What are the habits I want to keep, and which ones are a hard NO going forward? Something else fascinated me. When I first w

So yesterday, Day 4, seemed to be the hardest day of withdrawal from social media on my phone. I remember this from last year. I would pick up my phone and just stare at it, wanting it to do something — to entertain me, to distract me. It is when I get to feel this and notice my habits that I realise I am, hook, line and sinker, addicted to my smartphone. My way of dealing with that moment is to look at my photos, and then I feel this pang… I haven't shared it with the www. N

A lot has happened in a year. The landscape has changed considerably from where we were 12 months ago. A year ago, it really felt as though we were pushing shit up a hill. There was a sense that this was simply how things were going to be: social media would continue to expand into our lives, our children would continue to be exposed to it, and there was very little anyone could do because Big Tech was simply too powerful to challenge. But that is beginning to change. In Janu

What I learnt from my seven day challenge to reset my smartphone habits. Last year was the inaugural launch of the Spring Screen Break. Initially, I was going to ditch my smartphone altogether and replace it with a dumb phone, but in reality that wasn’t going to work for me. Instead, I completely dumbed down my smartphone so that it became, quite literally, a phone and a camera. The first thing I noticed almost immediately was how much better I slept. When we consider how imp

In the last week, our children have seen content that most adults haven’t seen. They saw live feed of a man being shot and bleeding to...

Spring is the season of renewal—and what better time to reset your relationship with technology?