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Your Answers

1. I have regular access to technology or digital devices.
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.
Strongly 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.
Agree
6. I use technology only when necessary and prefer to limit my screen time.
Disagree
7. I find myself heavily reliant on technology and often use it when I don’t need to.
Disagree
8. What are the top 3 uses of non-social media technology in your life?
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Design and creativity
9. What are the top 3 areas where non-social media technology is the most helpful in your life?
Communication, Lifestyle, Design and creativity
10. Where is the use of non-social media technology the most frustrating in your life?
Communication, Productivity, Information
11. What are the top 3 things that are frustrating about non-social media technology?
Losing time (gaming or streaming more than I intended), Friends/family expect me to constantly be available to them, Less in-person connection with other people
12. What are the top 3 ways non-social media technology makes you feel?
relaxed, entertained, worthless
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 support my health and wellness, It will enhance my entertainment, It will encourage my creativity
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?
Privacy issues (being monitored and tracked online), Being constantly connected to technology, Harmful brain changes (addiction, attention problems, irritability)
15. What do you currently do to minimize the negative impact of non-social media technology the most?
Take the time to think about how I’m using technology and if it’s hurting me
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?
Me, Technology Companies, 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?
Regularly ask users about the harmful impact of technology to monitor areas for improvement, Be transparent about potential impacts of technology, Develop industry standards for measuring impact on communities of users and incentives companies for good performance
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?
Incentivize research on potential harms or positive impacts of technology, Fine technology companies for harm towards people, Invest in public education on using technology safely

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This test was taken on October 14, 2024, 7:38 pm EDT. To view this result on the web, visit:
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