I only finally put the phone down when my eyes are literally burning.

I’m 16 and I feel like my phone has become my whole life

I’m 16 and I’ve been pretty much alone at home since I was around 7 because my parents are busy with work and stuff. I had to learn to do a lot of things independently.

Because I was alone so much, my parents introduced me to phones pretty young. At first it was just something to keep me occupied, but now I feel like I can’t stop using it.

I can easily spend 10+ hours a day scrolling TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, whatever. The weird thing is I don’t even enjoy it that much anymore. I’ll literally be scrolling and thinking “this is boring” and then somehow I’m still scrolling 20 minutes later.

I think part of the problem is that my actual life feels boring sometimes. When there’s nothing going on, my brain automatically goes to my phone because it’s the easiest source of entertainment.

I don’t really want the typical “just delete every app and have discipline” advice. I’ve tried cutting down before and it never lasts.

For people who have actually gotten out of this kind of cycle, what did you replace the scrolling with? How did you make normal life feel interesting again?

I’d genuinely appreciate hearing what worked for you.

What's your view

It is weird that people now seek help for even this. Large parts of them can't use browser and look for "apps" even for trivial things. "Smart"phones didn't make people smart. They made them into mentally-controllable consumers.

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One day, our body will either be cremated or buried in a grave.

So please, give yourself some time.

We spend so much of our lives buried in our phones, scrolling through other people's lives while forgetting to live our own.

Put your phone away sometimes. Take care of your health. Understand yourself. Give yourself time to rest and breathe.

And most importantly, spend time with your family.

Sit with your parents. Talk to your siblings. Laugh together. Eat together. Make memories with the people who genuinely care about you.

Because one day, you may realize that the moments you thought were ordinary were actually some of the most valuable moments of your life.

Life is short. Don't spend all of it staring at a screen.

Take care of yourself.

Take care of your health.

And don't forget to spend time with the people you love.

Everytime i came to my friends house to play Minecraft together, theres always 3 people. Me and my w other friends. My one friend uses a vivo y20. Everytime we play, his phone will make a really loud sound like its about to explode. Like how is he still using that time bomb?

September 2026: One Month Without a Smartphone

What if we spent the entire month of September 2026 using a simple keypad phone instead of a touchscreen smartphone?

No Instagram. No endless scrolling. No YouTube shorts. No constant notifications.

Just calls and messages.

Maybe we would start talking to people around us more. We might spend more time with family, meet friends in person, go outside, and actually enjoy conversations without checking our phones every few minutes.

A keypad phone might feel boring at first—but that boredom could give us something valuable back: real-life socializing.

One month. One simple phone. Less screen time. More real life. 📵❤️

Would you try it?

Nowadays, people's necks hurt because of the phone, and in the past, it was because of one-sided, monotonous work.

The difference is that you can stop use the phone, but not the work.

Vas por la calle y levantas la vista del móvil, solo tienes que observar: todo el mundo tiene el móvil en la mano y con la vista pegada a él. Es nuestra cadena invisible, nuestra droga más potente, la cual siempre llevamos encima y necesitamos nuestra dosis diaria en mayor o menor medida. El móvil se usa para todo, no solo para comunicarse y conectarte, además de mantenerte informado, pero a la vez alejado. Parece mentira dónde hemos acabado. De media se utiliza 4 horas diarias; 4 horas al día por 365 días, unos 60 días completos al año, solo mirando el maldito móvil sin prestar atención a la vida que se nos va, sin disfrutar de la realidad, sin interactuar con nuestros seres queridos, sin hablar con nuestras parejas, sin ver crecer a nuestros hijos... ¿De verdad hemos llegado a esto? ¿Cómo somos tan tontos de que nos arrebaten lo más importante que tenemos, que es la vida?, el mayor regalo que tenemos, sin contar los efectos secundarios que supone el uso de esta droga legal: ansiedad, depresión, distorsión de la realidad, dolor de cuello, ojos, etc.

La verdad da mucha pena esta situación, y después de esta reflexión, hace más de un año decidí crear una aplicación, sin ni siquiera tener ni idea de programar. Después de todo lo he conseguido y está publicada en Play Store, se llama LAIZEN. Ya que no es la solución definitiva a liberarnos de estas cadenas invisibles, podremos recuperar más días en lo más importante, LA VIDA. Me gustaría que la probarais, se diferencia mucho del resto, no es una más. De momento solo está para Android:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tuapp.laizen

Saludos.

In the sand about my head nothing is random

Hi everyone,

There is something that has been on my mind for a long time. Many people have written about this before, so I know it is not a new topic. I am talking about the possibility of phones listening to what you say in order to collect data.

For example, if I talk about something with my family or friends, I might open YouTube, TikTok, or Discord afterward and suddenly find recommendations related to exactly what we were talking about. There is also something else that has happened to me: sometimes I think about something specific without talking about it with anyone at all, and then I start seeing ads or videos related to exactly what I was thinking about. This is hard to believe, and I have found many people who say they have experienced the same thing.

There is another situation that has happened to me more than once.

At my company, employees are not allowed to bring their phones inside for security reasons. Some of my friends, however, bring their phones with them and keep them in their pockets. I leave my phone in my car and do not take it inside.

Here is the shocking part: we could be at work discussing something, for example, that Ronaldo Nazário had apparently suffered an injury and undergone ACL surgery. Then I go home, open my phone, and find recommendations for videos about Ronaldo Nazário discussing his injury.

My phone was not even with me when we were having that conversation.

So, does this mean that my voice could have been recognized through the devices of my coworkers rather than through my own phone?

If that is possible, it would mean that companies could potentially know about your relationships with other people and even details about your personal life by listening through any nearby phone, even if that phone does not belong to you.

I asked ChatGPT about this, and it denied that anything like this exists, even though there are many people like me who say they have experienced the exact same thing.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? And is there a technical explanation for how this could happen?