在前面的内容当中我们给大家分享过很多雅思写作语料内容，其实在我们备考雅思的时候，写作话题语料是我们备考内容的选修选项之一，本期我们继续给大家分享一下与我们生活密不可分的话题，try to self-regulate减少手机的使用。

Try to Self-regulate

The explosion of mobile phone use has revolutionized our lives. We can download movies and podcasts, write articles, communicate with our families and broadcast to the world all at the push of a button.

This is unprecedented power, but there are still many important questions about these maddening, valuable devices that we have been unable to answer. What is clear, however, is that many initial reactions have been more knee-jerk than evidence-based.

Rather than impose arbitrary constraints, we should take a look at our use of screens and ask how they fit with the activities and lifestyles we want as individuals and families. Young people today have grown up with social media. For them, managing how they spend time with their screens was part of growing up.

Like any social media user, there are times when we feel we should use it less, that we need to feel in control. We all have ways in which we try to self-regulate.

Maybe you tweak your phone’s settings to reduce the number of alerts you get, or uninstall certain apps so they are not readily available. Some have suggested introducing “mental speed bumps” that interrupt the habit of checking a phone too often, such as writing a note to yourself on your lock screen or simply wrapping a rubber band around the device as a reminder.

Apple and Android phones and tablets now come with widgets that let you monitor and manage screen use. You can set time limits, turn off notifications and track what you have been doing on the device. There are also “night-time” settings that cut the blue light emitted by the screen and a “wind-down” mode designed to make the screen less enticing by turning it black and white.

Every new technology with widespread impact has given rise to new fears. The best bet may simply be to ask yourself what level of screen use makes you and those around you happy and try to stick to it.