2023-09-29 19:26:07
Recently, a video of a TikTok user crying desperately because her new iPhone doesn’t have battery life has gone viral.
“You already know that some iPhones are malfunctioning and what happens to mine is that the battery doesn’t last. And I need it to last. So I came to an Apple store to explain to the guy that it’s not that I want my money back and change my phone, because I want this phone, what I need is for it to be fixed so that it has a longer battery life.” , he said through tears @byhermossthe protagonist of the publication that spread at great speed.
In a few moments the publication was filled with messages similar to the one shared by the Spanish journalist Javier Villamor, in X: “Please, watch the two entire videos and see what kind of society we are creating. People who are unable to manage their emotions and who fall apart at anything. “I’m really worried about the future,” and led to his elimination.
However, the video, beyond showing a person crying for not being able to use a cell phone as expected, was putting on the table one of the famous diseases that are beginning to permeate the world in the 21st century: nomophobia, a term that comes from the Anglicized nomophobia (no-mobile-phone-phobia) and was coined in 2009 in the United Kingdom.
It is about the irrational fear that some people feel when they do not have a cell phone or when they are cut off from the Internet because they have left it at home, it has run out of battery, or there is no coverage in the place where they are.
Something that is not at all strange if you take into account that “the number of mobile users in the world amounts to 6.37 billion, which means that 80.7% of the global population has one of these devices” , according to Statista. “Of those 80.7% of users, 61% check it in the first five minutes after waking up, and 72% check it at least once an hour, with more than 50% checking it several times each hour” .
For now, the WHO has not classified nomophobia as a mental pathology, and even so, many experts consider that the growing dependence on these devices can cause common psychological consequences such as anxiety, depression or isolation.
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