Now I thought I understood the preoccupation, the compulsive checking.

With social apps so accessible on my smartphone, this had turned into compulsive checking.

But it's hard to manage the pull of compulsive checking.

There's a niggling feeling of distraction, compulsive checking of feeds and messages, and ultimately a desire to pull oneself away from online conversation.

I enjoy being connected, but casual use soon can easily become compulsive checking, and when I catch this happening, I go nuclear and delete them.

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