Here are a few important steps you can take right now to increase your digital well-being and regain control. Start with your own devices and invite friends or family to join you. Our collective individual actions are creating a powerful growing movement. Together, we can change the system. <\/p>
Note: The resources linked here will direct you to organizations who we think are doing great work. These third-party sites are not formally affiliated with CHT and their content may change without notice. Please review with care and discretion.<\/em><\/p> Red is a trigger color that instantly draws our attention. Reclaim your time by turning off notifications.<\/p> Remove apps that profit off of addiction, distraction, outrage, polarization, and misinformation.<\/p> Learn how to support your teen\u2019s digital health and wellness and help them be a good digital citizen here<\/a>.<\/p> While we can\u2019t solve tech with more tech, there are some tools out there that can help. Here\u2019s our short list.<\/p> We vote with our clicks. Don\u2019t support sites that pollute our cultural environment with vitriol via clickbait and outrage.<\/p> Social media serves us content we already agree with to keep us online longer, eroding our ability to engage with people who don\u2019t share our views. To solve problems from poverty to racism to climate change, we have to come together and expose ourselves to different perspectives.<\/p> Social media profits off hate and anger because it generates more engagement. Let\u2019s fight back with compassion.<\/p> We use our phones and news feeds from the moment we wake up, to falling asleep, and even in the bathroom.<\/p> Disconnecting can be a powerful way to reconnect with yourself and your loved ones. It\u2019s not only good for you \u2014 collectively we can reduce time spent on social media platforms by 15%, impacting bottom lines.<\/p> If you receive 99 positive comments on a post and 1 negative comment, which do you focus on? Our survival-biased brains tend to focus on the negative, even after we turn away from our tech.<\/p> Don\u2019t force your local newspaper to play social media\u2019s clickbait game. Support your local newspaper directly by paying for a subscription so that we can remain the customer, not the product. Democracy doesn\u2019t work without healthy journalism.<\/p> This article was originally published on Center for Humane Technology and only minimally edited for clarity. Read the article in its <\/em>original publication<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p> Learn how to help protect your preteen or teen online. BLOOM is here to help, whether you are looking for tips on how to talk to your kids about internet safety<\/a>, tech security tips to protect them online<\/a>, or even in-depth and personalized Q&As<\/a> and workshops<\/a>. Raising young people is hard enough. We are here to help demystify and provide support!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Learn how to take control of your and your kids\u2019 tech use. With just a few simple steps, you can increase your digital well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":22339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"coauthors":[344],"class_list":{"0":"post-22327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-digital-life"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomforall.com\/parent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomforall.com\/parent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomforall.com\/parent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomforall.com\/parent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomforall.com\/parent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bloomforall.com\/parent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomforall.com\/parent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomforall.com\/parent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomforall.com\/parent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomforall.com\/parent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22327"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomforall.com\/parent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=22327"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomforall.com\/parent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Turn Off Notifications<\/h2>
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Remove Toxic Apps<\/h2>
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Download Helpful Tools<\/h2>
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Eliminate Outrage From Your Diet<\/h2>
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Set Boundaries<\/h2>
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Fully Disconnect One Day Per Week<\/h2>
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