智能手機已成日常“誘惑” 如何還原工具本色？

要警惕智能手機的破壞性影響，這是科技領域記者凱瑟琳·普萊斯從她剛出生的寶寶身上吸取的教訓。

普萊斯著有《和手機分手的智慧》（How to Break Up With Your Phone）一書。她寫書的靈感來自于真實體驗獲得的頓悟。當時她一邊抱著孩子，一邊盯著手機在eBay上瀏覽仿古門把手。突然，她意識到寶寶在努力溝通，看到的卻是自己“面無表情的臉”，也是一個著名的兒童發育實驗研究課題。

上周三，普萊斯在圣迭戈舉行的《財富》頭腦風暴健康大會上指出，人們必須警惕人與手機之間的關系。她說，手機設備應該只是“工具，而不是誘惑”。

雖然每個人使用手機的時長和頻率各不相同，但普萊斯建議，最好戴上手表或者設鬧鐘，防止沉迷于Instagram等社交媒體，或者毫無意義地玩手機浪費時間。“如果要改變習慣，僅憑意志力是無濟于事的。”普萊斯這樣認為。

與此同時，迪賽爾·佩爾茨開發了一款名為Twenty的應用程序，希望促進人與人面對面的交流，主要面向大學校園。佩爾茨創業是為了讓年輕人遠離設備，因為他發現在現實生活中，同齡人見朋友比過去要少得多。他打造的平臺只注重現在和未來鼓勵用戶見面，不會出現昨晚聚會的內容（如果你沒有獲邀參加）。他說，這是為了減少用戶因為攀比社交活動而產生負面情緒。（財富中文網）

譯者：Pessy

審校：夏林

Be wary of the disruptive downside to smartphones. Science journalist Catherine Price learned that lesson from her newborn.

The author of How to Break Up With Your Phone was inspired to write the book after a stark moment of realization while she held her baby and stared at her phone, browsing eBay for antique doorknobs. Price was startled into reality: She was giving her infant “still face”—the subject of a famous experiment in child development—while the baby was trying to bond.

Spoke last Wednesday at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego, Price said people have to be mindful in defining their relationship with their phones. The devices should be “tools, not temptations,” she said.

While the duration and intensity of each person’s phone use is different, she recommends wearing a watch or setting an alarm to guard against getting sucked into an “Instagram spiral” or other unfulfilling phone use. “Willpower will get you nowhere when it comes to habit change,” Price said.

Diesel Peltz, meanwhile, founded Twenty, an app that is being used—largely on college campuses—to facilitate in-person meetups. He started the company to get young people off their devices, after noticing that people of his generation were seeing friends in real life far less often than in the past. His platform focuses only on present and future meetups—there’s no posting about last night’s party (to which you weren’t invited). It’s an effort, he said, to reduce the negative feelings arising from social comparisons.