Can an app that rewards you for avoiding Facebook help beat smartphone addiction?
by Poppy Noor from Technology | The Guardian on (#3DAXR)
The Hold app - already used by 40% of students in Norway - allows users to earn rewards such as cinema tickets for not using their phone. We put it to the test
It's March 2012, the middle of exam term and my friend is in despair. Why? She can't access her Facebook.
Nordic app Hold is hoping to combat such examples of student smartphone addiction. It rewards users for not looking at their phones on campus - a task so difficult for my zombified-friend that she resorted to using a website that locks her out of all social media accounts.
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