{"id":9144,"date":"2025-12-14T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/smartphones-a-lifeline-or-a-dangerous-distraction\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:50:07","slug":"smartphones-a-lifeline-or-a-dangerous-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/smartphones-a-lifeline-or-a-dangerous-distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphones: A lifeline or a dangerous distraction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/d14351c0-e499-11ef-a247-005056a90284\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/capture-55948387367a4cc641774f4.23123003.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>On World No Mobile Phone Day, we take a look at how this event started and was named in honour of a famous French song. We also dive into which nations are most on their smartphones and which are not. Finally, we discuss what smartphone use could be doing to our society.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/entre-nous\/20250206-smartphones-a-lifeline-or-a-dangerous-distraction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On World No Mobile Phone Day, we take a look at how this event started and was named in honour of a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}