'It's an illness': China sees boom in businesses offering to end smartphone addiction


Source: koreatimes.co.kr koreatimes.co.kr

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gettyimagesbank On Douban, a Chinese social networking website, there is a group named "Away from the screen," which was formed in 2020 and now has over 30,000 members who are striving to break their phone addiction. A person, with the username "Bot9," shared a screenshot on March 8, indicating that he had spent roughly 11 hours a day on his mobile phone in the previous week. "It's already an illness," he wrote. "I'm going to try to cut back on my mobile phone usage starting tomorrow." However, on March 9 and 10, within two days after his original post, he...