It disturbs mindfulness, ruins cognition and simply makes you distracted to advancing as a human being.

Those aren't friends on the 'net, those are distant acquaintances who behaves in a way distinctly different from their meatspace proclivities.

Once you've liberated yourself and gotten a dumb phone, buy a Faraday bag and you are set. Talk to people with your mouth, write letters, as a matter of fact, write. Writing makes you smarter, more contemplative and simply brighter in apprehending the world you.

You will relish the newfound return to "unavailability".

I'm not a technophobe but I am one of a handful of humans who has never had a FaceBorg account and I am the better for it.

My editor told me to have a Twitter account and that constantly fights for my attention and may very well be my existential albatross to bear instead of FB or a smartphone.