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Your Answers

1. I have regular access to technology or digital devices.
Strongly Agree
2. I struggle with using technology and often need help.
Disagree
3. I use technology regularly for essential tasks like work, shopping, or managing daily life.
Agree
4. I primarily use technology to connect with others through social media or online communities.
Agree
5. I enjoy exploring new technology, apps, or devices to enhance my daily life.
Strongly Agree
6. I use technology only when necessary and prefer to limit my screen time.
Strongly Disagree
7. I find myself heavily reliant on technology and often use it when I don’t need to.
Strongly Agree
8. What are the top 3 uses of non-social media technology in your life?
Information, Entertainment, Lifestyle
9. What are the top 3 areas where non-social media technology is the most helpful in your life?
Learning and education, Entertainment, Lifestyle
10. Where is the use of non-social media technology the most frustrating in your life?
Learning and education, Information, Development and coding
11. What are the top 3 things that are frustrating about non-social media technology?
Privacy (collecting information about me without my control), I’m exposed to or pushed to content I don’t want to see, Becoming dependent on technology (can’t find my way around without maps app)
12. What are the top 3 ways non-social media technology makes you feel?
distracted, addicted, overwhelmed/anxious
13. Thinking about the future (5 years from now), what are the 3 things you are most hopeful about what non-social media technology can do for you and how it might help?
It will foster social connections, It will boost my productivity, It will improve my problem solving
14. Thinking about the future (5 years from now), what are the 3 things you fear the most about what non-social media technology is going to do to you and how that will happen?
Losing human skills (socializing, reading, writing, creating), Job loss or being replaced by technology, Less in-person connection with other people
15. What do you currently do to minimize the negative impact of non-social media technology the most?
I don’t do anything to minimize the negative impact of technology
16. Who do you think are the top 3 groups who should be most responsible for implementing mental health protections for non-social media technology, and how?
Parents/Guardians, Companies using software (healthcare, schools, employer), Government
17. What are the top 3 things that technology companies can do to protect the mental health of people who use their non-social media technologies?
Do not add any features they know are harmful to begin with, Regularly ask users about the harmful impact of technology to monitor areas for improvement, Make sure testing is done to remove harmful impact
18. What are the top 3 things that the government can do to protect the mental health of people who use non-social media technologies?
Set policies/laws that tech companies have to follow, Create a group of people responsible for reviewing and giving limitations on safety, Fine technology companies for harm towards people

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This test was taken on November 18, 2024, 4:19 pm EST. To view this result on the web, visit:
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