Tip # 1: don’t tell about your life on the web
Thierry Crouzet is categorical: we don’t go on the Internet to talk about ourselves. Talking about the evening we spent with our friends is useless. Explanations of the person concerned: “From the moment when people react to what we have posted on Facebook for example, we enter a loop of pleasure which pushes us to post more and more”, explains Thierry Crouzet. The risk is to lose control by falling into a gear that leads to addiction.
The solution ? Without fear of taking against the grain a handful of Internet users, this blogger writer claims another use of the Internet: “We should not use the Web for entertainment or communication, he insists. Internet is a weapon. policy which should make it possible to organize society, to act and to bring people together “. Yes to blogs, tweets and facebook messages, as long as you serve a specific and useful purpose, to create something. >> To read also: why is your teenager still on the Internet?
Tip n ° 2: take care of digital “retreats”
Our least activity is parasitized every 5 minutes by a glance at our emails or our smartphone? Do we think we have to answer our messages even when we are at the table with friends? No doubt, we’re addicted. Faced with such a diagnosis, the most effective and radical way out of this dependence: to “retire” from the Net. No need to do penance for a week with the Carmelites, you just have to cut yourself off from everything that connects us to the Web. We unplug completely Wifi, smartphone, emails, social networks… and we take advantage. This cure can be more or less long. That of Thierry Crouzet lasted six months, but it can be a few hours a day, or to impose an exit without looking at his phone. The important thing is to “save time off the Net”. An ideal breath of fresh air to take stock of your past uses of the Internet. And start again on new bases.
Tip n ° 3: act on the web with a clear conscience
The Internet gives us a kind of gift of ubiquity. A pleasurable but very dangerous pleasure. Very quickly we feel the compulsive need to do several things at the same time: we tweet while sending an email and responding to a “friend” on facebook. No more multitasking, we learn to land to surf in “full awareness”. We do one action after another. For example, we avoid reading our emails while talking to someone. A good way not to get hooked and to stay in control. >> To read also: Test: do you have a hidden addiction?
Tip 4: postpone non-urgent matters
The art of procrastinating is very useful in preventing web addiction. We sort out the quantity of non-urgent emails that pollute our mailbox and we set aside a little time to consult them, if we have time. The unstoppable trick to save time is to filter your mailbox (s) by creating files (personal, professional, etc.). Little by little we “personalize our use of the Internet and we set our own rules”, argues Thierry Crouzet. Isn’t that what the intelligent Internet really is?
* Thierry Crouzet recounts how he disconnected himself from the Internet for six months in his new book “I disconnected. How to relive without Internet after an overdose”, editions Fayard, 18 €. He also maintains a blog: blog.tcrouzet.com/.