#digital leash

[mommahoney]

The "Digital Leash"

Yes, please

[psychologistmimi]

Disposable People?

Somewhere between scanning QR codes and letting algorithms pick our personalities, something else quietly shifted. Our relationships started to feel lighter. Faster. More replaceable.Enter the overlap I can’t stop thinking about the “5-Year Stranger Theory” (which I write about yesterday) meets the digital leash.Because yes, relationships have always evolved and faded. That part isn’t new. What…

[psychologistmimi]

Digital Leash: The Illusion of Choice

We love choices. We say we want options. More flavors, more shows, more ways to customize our coffee and our lives until everything feels uniquely ours.And yet something feels off.Because the choices don’t feel as expansive as they used to. They feel curated. Narrowed. Pre-decided in a way we can’t quite see but definitely feel.You open a streaming app with hundreds of shows, allegedly and…

[psychologistmimi]

Digital Leash: You Didn’t Choose That

Yesterday, I complained (eloquently, I think) about needing an app to breathe in public. But let’s go deeper because it’s not just that we’re tethered to our phones.It’s that the phone is quietly making decisions for us.What we buy. What we watch. What we read. Even what we worry about.Every scroll feels personal, like the internet just gets*you. Oh, you were just thinking about new sneakers?…

[psychologistmimi]

Tell me the last time you just did something without your phone playing chaperone

There was a time—not ancient history, just pre-everything-needs-a-passwordwhen you could simply exist in public without downloading something first. I remember writing about this years ago after watching a Sesame Street skit that cheerfully predicted a world of apps for everything. It felt cute. Playful. Slightly absurd.Well. Joke’s on us.Now I can’t park my car without an app. I can’t read a…