#DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life

Title:

#DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life

Author:

Bila, Jedediah, author.

ISBN:

9780062797063

Edition:

First edition.

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Have you ever looked at your email, then texts, then Facebook, then Twitter, then email, then Instagram, then Candy Crush, then texts, then Snapchat, then texts again, and now you've wasted the time you had set aside for more important things?

Jedediah Bila has solved her own Obsessive Compulsive Tech Disorder, and she did it without throwing away her devices.

It's time to switch on airplane mode and settle into Jedediah Bila's #DoNotDisturb: How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life.

In this timely, entertaining and inspiring book, Jedediah Bila chronicles her chaotic, confusing, and all-consuming love-hate relationship with - her cell phone. Stepping back from the whirlwind of texting, social media, and an endless sea of apps, Bila questions how our relationships, character, and sanity have suffered from our deep dive into the digital abyss. Exploring the toll that tech addiction took on her life, Bila reveals her missteps and mistakes, including several upending, life-altering months swirling in an ex-boyfriend's cell-phone-enabled double life, and how a low-tech millennial later stole her heart.

Travel with Jedediah through the embarrassing and catastrophic consequences of Ménage-a-Tech relationships, social media's Perception Deception, and the One-Potato-Chip-Problem of trying to resist Silicon Valley's hypnotic, slot-machine software designed to lure you in. Bila reveals how she navigated away from an unhealthy, oversaturated diet of tech junk food to striking just the right balance with technology to let her unplugged, real-life moments take charge.

In #DoNotDisturb, Bila applies her trademark no-nonsense, common-sense, personal responsibility and accountability-centered approach, warning us that if we don't stop acting like robots, our very humanity is at stake.

Through warm anecdotes and cold, hard truths, Bila reveals how she pulled her way out of the tech fog to keep her eyes focused on the life right in front of her. And how you can too.

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

A former Fox News and The View host ponders the ramifications of cellphones and other technology in her personal life.It's hard to conceive, but there was a time when cellphones, tablets, and other electronic devices were not an integral part of every waking moment, a time when people looked each other in the eye while having a conversation and didn't respond immediately to every ping and buzz they heard. Bila (Outnumbered: Chronicles of a Manhattan Conservative, 2011) remembers those simpler days, and she set out to recapture them by eliminating her Pavlovian response to her cellphone and its constant notifications that somebody or something demanded her attention at that very moment. "While I know we can't go backward," she writes, "I'd sure like to move forward in a better way." To that end, she shares stories of her phone and social media addiction and how this insatiable need to respond affected her deeply, many times negatively, as she missed out on sunsets and countless other real-world experiences. The author branches out beyond cellphones to discuss the implications for online gamers whose virtual lives interfere with their real ones, how Facebook "memories" can be harmful, and how robots have been integrated into so many aspects of life, including areas where they can make life-or-death decisions. Since nearly all of us use our phones constantly, Bila's tale will appeal to a wide variety of readers. Though she doesn't provide any groundbreaking research that hasn't already been covered in other books, the narrative is a good reminder that in many cases, what we take in is trivial information while the important stuff continues all around usand we often miss it.A well-intentioned, personal presentation of how to find our way back from "the thickets of the tech jungle." Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Introduction Paging Marty McFly	p. 1
Chapter 1 Ménage-à-Tech	p. 7
Chapter 2 Creeping, Crawling, Appalling Addiction	p. 29
Chapter 3 The Multitasking Myth	p. 47
Chapter 4 All-Access Distraction	p. 61
Chapter 5 That One-Potato-Chip Problem	p. 83
Chapter 6 Perception Deception	p. 105
Chapter 7 Helping Hands Hold No Phones	p. 123
Chapter 8 Flesh & Bones & Batteries	p. 141
Chapter 9 The Power of Positive	p. 163
Chapter 10 LOL	p. 183
Chapter 11 Sunsets on the Roof	p. 199
Chapter 12 Humanity Must Win, or We All Lose	p. 217
Afterward A Letter to the Next Generation	p. 239
Acknowledgments	p. 243
Selected Bibliography	p. 245

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DoNotDisturb: How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life.

Do Not Disturb: How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life

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2018

Bila, Jedediah, author.

Internet addiction -- Case studies.

Television -- United States -- Biography.

Book -- Adult.

Nonfiction -- Telecommunications.

Bila, Jedediah, -- Mental health.

Bila, Jedediah, author.

Cell phones -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.

Internet addiction -- Case studies.

Television -- United States -- Biography.

616.85 BIL

Cell phones -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.

Internet addiction -- Case studies.

Television -- United States -- Biography.

Book -- Adult.

Nonfiction -- Telecommunications.

Bila, Jedediah, -- Mental health.

Book -- Adult.

Nonfiction -- Telecommunications.

Cell phones -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.

2018

#DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life

Bila, Jedediah,-Mental health.

2018

"In this entertaining and inspiring book, Jedediah Bila chronicles her confusing, chaotic, and ultimately catastrophic love-hate relationship with ... her cell phone. And her social media, laptop, and all such apps and devices that have many of us immersed in the distracting, alluring, draining world that is the digital era. Taking us through a series of what she calls her McFly Moments (named for the Back To The Future protagonist who sparked her simple life envy and desire to travel back to a seemingly easier time), Jedediah shares her most personal and embarrassing stories of mistakes made and sunsets missed, including the upending, life-altering months swirling in the digitally-enabled double life of her con man ex-boyfriend. Naming her affliction OCTD, (obsessive compulsive Tech disorder) and heeding what she calls "the seven deadly signs that the tech apocalypse is upon us," Bila sets off to explore the consequences of too-much-tech, including: public cell-phone conversations as the second-hand smoke of the 21st century; Menge-a-Tech relationships; and the fact that we've all been programmed for addiction. Jedediah Bila applies the no-nonsense, common-sense, personal responsibility and accountability approach on which her TV viewership, readers, and 400,000 + social media followers have come to rely, to shout "Hey! My eyes are up here" and warn us all that if we don't start looking up to make eye contact with each other, our very humanity is at stake"-- Provided by publisher.

"The network and cable television personality shares her personal journey through the tumult of technology, in which she experiences the horrors and dangers of our smart-phone, social media, tech-polluted world, explores the reasons behind it, and reveals her ideas for reclaiming a real life in these virtual times. In this entertaining and inspiring book, Jedediah Bila chronicles her confusing, chaotic, and ultimately catastrophic love-hate relationship with. her cell phone. Taking us through a series of what she calls her McFly Moments (named for the Back to the Future protagonist who sparked her simple life envy and desire to travel back to a seemingly easier time), Jedediah shares her most personal and embarrassing stories of mistakes made and sunsets missed, including the upending, life-altering months swirling in the digitally-enabled double life of her con man ex-boyfriend. Naming her affliction OCTD, (Obsessive Compulsive Tech Disorder) and heeding what she calls "the seven deadly signs that the tech apocalypse is upon us," Bila sets off to explore the consequences of too-much-tech, including: public cell-phone conversations as the second-hand smoke of the twenty-first century; Menage-a-Tech relationships; and the fact that we've all been programmed for addiction. Jedediah Bila applies the no-nonsense, common-sense, personal responsibility and accountability approach on which her television viewership, readers, and more than 400,000 social media followers have come to rely, to shout "Hey! My eyes are up here" and warn us all that if we don't start looking up to make eye contact with each other, our very humanity is at stake"-- Provided by publisher.

9780062797063

vi, 249 pages ; 24 cm.

First edition.

Jedediah, author. Bila

#DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life

DoNotDisturb: How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life.

Do Not Disturb: How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life

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616.85 BIL

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Guyandotte Public Library

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10110000352312

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