Have you heard of WIFI anxiety? Maybe you think, what is the problem, in the past mobile phone signal is poor, the network is not powerful, the network signal is not good will feel anxious and anxious, now 5G has long entered thousands of households, and some people will be anxious for WIFI? Not to mention, WIFI anxiety may be more serious than you think. In the "2023 Home Online Life Trend Report", WIFI anxiety has become a new era hidden heart disease that 99% of respondents have encountered.

Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Shen Zhao

1 More and more electronic products need to be connected to WIFI

In order to better depict the home life of contemporary people and the Internet, and to dig out people's pain points and expectations for home networks, Yicai|DT Research Institute and Huawei Lingxiao Mother and Mother Routing Q6 released the "Instantaneous Universe of Home - 2023 Home Network Life Trend Report", which summarizes the keywords and network pain points of home networks through the questionnaire answers of 1200,<> respondents, and many of the data may surprise you.

What does the ideal home of the present generation look like? The feeling of warmth and comfort is most mentioned, so what kind of conditions can a cottage be called comfortable? According to the report, 67.9% of respondents hope that their home will create space for audio-visual entertainment, that is, to meet the entertainment needs of watching movies and playing games. A "post-95" Shanghai man interviewed said, "In addition to eating, sleeping and working at home, it is entertainment activities, watching TV, playing games, raising plants and reading books." The coolest thing at home is to sleep until 12 o'clock, close the curtains, turn off the lights, turn on my ROG gaming monitor and PS5, adjust the height adjustable desk, and start playing the new game. "To achieve this kind of comfortable weekend perfectly, it certainly won't work without the support of high-speed internet.

Now is an era of full network coverage, especially for people living in cities, the existence of wireless networks is as natural as air, mobile phones are almost 24 hours a day without opening the network, and more and more electronic products are connected to WIFI at home. According to the report, 97.7% of respondents said that communication devices at home need to connect to WIFI, and 89.1% of respondents said that audio-visual equipment needs to connect to WIFI. In addition, work equipment, safety equipment such as cameras, and entertainment equipment such as game consoles have relatively high requirements for wireless networks, and many families have become accustomed to using sweeping robots, fitness equipment, etc. all need wireless networks.

It can be said that the life scene of contemporary people is closely related to wireless networks, and most of the devices used daily need a network, and it is no wonder that some netizens said that "cutting off my network is simply killing me." Therefore, the "Report" also said that only 1.3% of people believe that WIFI quality and quality of life do not have much impact, and "should be connected" is the normal life of contemporary people.

2 Forty percent of respondents have high requirements for WIFI quality

Once WIFI goes wrong, anxiety begins to sweep in, the "Report" data shows that 40.9% of respondents have high requirements for WIFI quality, 47.4% of people said that they have high requirements, only 0.3% of people do not pay much attention to this problem, 29.4% of respondents often because of poor wireless network signal and anxiety, 64.3% of people said that occasionally there will be this problem, only 1% of people said that they have not had an anxiety moment.

It is not difficult to look at the major social platforms casually, because of the WIFI signal problems and anxious people abound, every day countless people ask online "What should I do if the signal is full but the Internet speed is slow?" "What if the signal is unstable?" When traveling to check the strategy of hotels and homestays, it is indispensable to pay attention to whether this network speed is good, if the wireless network signal is very poor, a bad review may appear.

The wireless network signal is not good, it is irritating, and it can be said that it is caused by the lack of smooth use of electronic devices, and now more people have "prepaid" WIFI anxiety. A "post-95" female interviewee revealed that he had a remote interview with WIFI failure, dropped three times in the middle, and failed the interview The painful lesson, and then encountered such an online interview, he would keep testing WIFI a few days in advance, and even change the browser to clean up the memory, and fell into a cycle of anxiety about possible network signal problems.

Once you can't connect to the network or communication equipment is not around, anxiety will follow. "I can't accept a world without the Internet, I will really go crazy when opening pages or pictures all the time, and I can't stop the Internet without water or electricity." "I feel like I've been kidnapped by the internet." Has the Internet become a chronic poison for contemporary people?

3 Power anxiety, red dot obsessive-compulsive disorder... There are many other types of "electronic anxiety"

In addition to the anxiety caused by poor network signals, electronic anxiety in the Internet age has many manifestations. For example, power anxiety, when the mobile phone is low on battery, it will fall into a restless mood; Another example is red dot obsessive-compulsive disorder, I know very well that the messages pushed by various application software and group chats are visible or not for themselves, but they can't stop the hand they must click, so that as soon as the red dot prompts the message appears, it must be opened and cleared.

"Although we will call it WIFI anxiety, battery anxiety, from a psychological point of view, this is not a professional name." Zhang Yan, a member of the Chinese Mental Health Association and a national second-level psychological counselor, believes that in the current environment, smart devices such as mobile phones have undoubtedly become part of life, and mobile phones can even represent a person's close friends, realizing our emotional and emotional connection with others, "When disconnected, separation anxiety will naturally occur, which is normal, but it cannot be called anxiety disorder." "Anxiety disorders can seriously affect our normal life and learning functions, produce extremely strong emotional reactions, and even have an impact on physical health such as sleep and diet." We will see that some young people with Internet addiction will have problems such as dropping out of school, or seriously affecting their ability to interact with society normally, which will require intervention and treatment. ”

Zhang Yan believes that although the vast majority of people have not been affected by the Internet and need psychotropic drugs to intervene in treatment, the Internet seems to have become an accomplice to the current generation of people becoming more anxious.

Compared with any previous era, the Internet has greatly expanded the scale of everyone's social network in a geographical sense, and at the same time expanded the diversity of people we can reach, and network technology is still expanding, people through the network can reach the world will become larger and larger, the network makes us more and more accustomed to anytime and anywhere and thousands of miles away to connect, the anxiety about obtaining information prompts people to continue to accept new information, once the way to obtain new information is cut off. The anxiety and uneasiness of separation will come to mind, which is why we are so strongly dependent on network signals, which may be called a hidden heart disease of contemporary people.

4 Heart disease still needs heart medicine, where is the heart medicine in the electronic age?

In order to reverse the "heart disease", there are many netizens to themselves "strong medicine", in order to quit electronic products and the Internet, simply lock up the mobile phone and computer, force themselves to not look at the mobile phone for a few days and do not play with the computer, "I think sometimes we have been over-connected with the online world, but indeed to change this situation, suddenly from over-connection to zero contact, there will definitely be a withdrawal reaction." ”

Zhang Yan said that for example, some children are addicted to the Internet, and parents use tough methods to disconnect their children from the Internet, which may make children anxious and even develop into more serious emotional problems, "When we adjust our exposure and dependence on the Internet, we still need to adjust gradually and hierarchically." ”

From the reality of the situation, it is impossible to completely get rid of the network, entertainment is only a part, study, work will need to constantly use the network, "we can control the use of the time, such as only a certain time of day to use the network, specify what to do with the network, to draw a line for ourselves." On the other hand, the fulfillment of real life can also alleviate the anxiety brought by the Internet to a large extent, "put more social interaction in real life, go out to exercise more, give yourself more rich life experience, and don't let your attention be completely deprived by the Internet." ”

The online world is interesting, the real world is also full of fun, when your video can't buffer out, the game loads and freezes, instead of being an ant on a hot pot, it's better to simply put down your phone and computer and go to real life to have some fun.