"As every aspect of our working and social life is digitized, screen addiction has become less an exception to our way of living and more a widely accepted characteristic of it. I see this most commonly when I ask my friends, family, and coworkers how many hours a day they spend on their phones. The answers vary from three to eight hours."
"I average around four hours of my day on my phone, checking emails, responding to texts, scrolling social media, and checking the weather. That's four hours I could be spending reading a book, writing an article, learning how to predict the weather, calling a loved one, and doing anything besides checking the time suck and brain rot that is social media sites and messaging apps."
"Every October, as average daylight dwindles and my energy levels deplete, this feeling of learned helplessness at the hands of technology comes to a head. I have no energy to get up from my bed. It takes me a while to build the courage to transit to the gym. What do I do instead? I sit on my bed and I scroll."
Screen addiction has become a widespread characteristic as work and social life digitize. Typical phone use ranges from three to eight hours per day. Four hours can be spent on email, texts, social media and weather checks instead of reading, writing, learning, calling loved ones, or other activities. Seasonal decreases in daylight correlate with depleted energy and increased passive scrolling in bed. Scrolling exposes a jumbled mix of financial advice, friends’ life events, reactionary click-driven content, and disturbing news. Deleting social apps, putting the phone in another room, imposing schedules, and leaving the house reduce use temporarily before apps are redownloaded.
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