Have Apps Killed Our Ability To Adult?
Cosmopolitan Philippines|August 2017

Dating apps kickstarted the dating apocalypse; others showed us we could get someone to do our sh!tty jobs for us. Now that there are apps for basically everything, are they ruining our capacity to think?

Have Apps Killed Our Ability To Adult?

76: That’s how many apps I have on my phone. Not including the ones pre-installed by Apple. Seventy-six apps I felt I truly couldn’t live without. I’ve got everything from Facebook and Instagram, to Tinder, Pokémon Go, and some app that makes it look like you’re bald (weird, but I felt it necessary to download one day at the pub). There are apps to measure my heartbeat, to order food, to hire a car, to put a border on a pic, and to check the weather more specifically than the Apple app does. Then there are the apps to sell things, to buy things, and to make people do things for me, like fetch my groceries. Basically, my life is in my phone. I ain’t alone.

I’m willing to bet my breakfast you can spot your phone out of the corner of your eye. And with 85 percent of us apparently choosing mobile apps over websites, there is supply meeting demand—in the Apple App Store alone there are 2.2 million apps for iOS devices. Suddenly my 76 doesn’t sound so bad. But before you surrender to the phone gods, clinical neuropsychologist Ash Nayate sees two problems with the spread of apps.

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