It takes the driving license. But sure: the license for the mobile phone. The government has done well to prohibit the use of the smartphone in elementary and middle schools. It will still do better to extend the prohibition also to superiors, as announced by Minister Valditara. But that’s not enough. You have to do more: it takes your driving license. It works like this: those who are minor can use the mobile phone only if the exam passes. And the exam must be repeated every year. In this way, if symptoms of nomophobia occur, the license is withdrawn. And stop the mobile phone. What do you say? What do you know what nomophobia is? You see that it takes your driving license: using the mobile phone without knowing what nomophobia is is like going on a scooter without knowing what the one -way sign is.
Nomophobia (no mobile phobia) is the addiction to smartphone. Those who suffer from it compuled to the mobile phone obsessively, panic if they don’t always have it with them, check what others are doing, if there are messages or likes, and it is caught by anxiety if the battery is downloaded or if there is no field. Do you know some nomophobic? Or are you yourself? Be careful because, as Professor Franco De Masi writes in his beautiful book, just released, No smartphonethe smartphone for the nomophobic is like “the needle for toxicomane”, and administers “digital dopamine twenty -four hours a twenty -four”. So much so that there are already organizations for recovery from the addiction to the Internet, which work more or less like anonymous alcoholics. “My name is Antonio and I haven’t been drinking Instragram for a week …”. “My name is Giulia and I haven’t become drunk on Facebook for three days …”.
In fact, to heal, first of all you need to become aware of your evil. Otherwise you risk ending up like Matteo (Fantasy name), the nomophobic teenager who a few days ago arrived at the Emergency Department of Orbassano (Turin) in the middle of abstinence crisis: an absent gaze, impetus voice, hands that trembled. “He spent the whole day on the smartphone, we took it off,” the parents said. Matteo has been hospitalized: State of severe psychomotor alteration. They calmed it with anxiolytics for intravenous. And it is not the first case of the genre. Ferruccio Sansa on Daily He recalled some precedents: from the boy found at the Florence station while wandering without a destination and without remembering his name (“overdose from screens”, the doctors said) to the boy from Cuggiono, in the Milanese, hospitalized at the request of the family as “Internet patient”.
“Leaving the tunnel is difficult,” explains Dr. De Masi, “because the images that saturate the brain replace real life and have hypnotic power”. The virtual world, in fact, is a kind of country of toys, created on purpose to give the illusion of pleasure: it is no coincidence that porn, money and games are always in the foreground for the final smartphone users. The screen is a shimmering city on whose main course there are only post -cubes and pitfalls, while everything else is hidden (i.e. serious and important things). “The use of the smartphone opens our senses to pleasure,” writes De Masi. And “providing all these gratifications, easily creates dependence”. So the “communication tool” mobile phone paradoxically becomes “an insulation tool”.
Hence the idea of the license. Because the mobile phone is just like the scooter: If you know how to use it, it is useful and delightful, if you don’t know how to use it, it turns into a fatal danger. So why to guide the scooter you have to pass a test while instead to guide your mobile phone right? Professor De Masi, in his book, recalls that in Italy there are already about 32 thousand guys with their license for the mobile phone: they all passed the course and consequent examination. Only in the province of Verbania (which is at the forefront in the experiment) 1,300 boys per year be “licensed”. And therefore: why not extend this project to the whole country? Why not make the license mandatory? I know that the initiative would not make many likes on the net earned, but could earn some life. And, although today it may seem strange, a life continues to be more than a like.
