A 24-year-old who ditched her smartphone and social media wants you to be 'appstinent' too

Ana Maria Rus

When Gabriela Nguyen wanted to do some spring cleaning as a teenager, she'd organize the apps on her phone. "That was cleaning; it would make me feel better," the 24-year-old tells CNBC Make It. "My actual room was in complete disarray, but it would feel better because my life was on my phone." Conflating her real and online lives was one of "a series of cracks" signaling her technology use had gotten out of hand, she says. "The apps became the center of gravity of my life in which the other

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