Opal App: Reducing Smartphone Addiction by Emulating a 'Dumbphone'
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Summary
The article discusses how an app called Opal helps users reduce smartphone addiction by making the device function more like a 'dumbphone' during working hours. It highlights the experience of an art adviser in New York who successfully blocked Instagram on his smartphone using the app.
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He said that several of his friends swore by the app, and so he had begun using it, too.
Kyle Chayka on how an app called Opal finally succeeded at curbing his time spent on social media through a combination of mild friction, encouragement, and guilt.
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