I wonder if the majority of people on here spend more than 13 hours a day. It seems crazy to me spending that much time looking at screens but when I see how much time some programming projects take I think wow, they must be looking at screens 80 hours a week to pull this work off.
I sometimes want to watch tv or play video games after work but after already staring at a screen for 9 hours, I have to read a book or do some other activity. Im not sure its good for us.
Yes
all of them
Are screens bad or are the primary ideas about screen time based on when screens solely offered content to consume without interaction?
“Screen are bad and you’ll become blind!”
-said mom who now scrolls WeChat all the time
Personally, I think both are pretty bad, but yeah, spending extended periods of time in front of a computer screen isn’t very healthy. They’ve already stated in another comment about the physical aspects of it with being 30 centimeters from the screen.
But there’s also the social development aspect of it. At the end of the day, humans are social creatures, regardless if you are an introvert or extrovert. You still need some amount of socialization. Many people that are habitually on computers have converted that socialization over to some digital platform like Discord(guilty as charged), Or have moved to a text based socialization. While this may meet our needs as human beings for socialization, It disconnects us from our emotions, and hinders our ability to have direct conversation.
The consequences of tone doesn’t matter much online, which makes us more apt to respond or be blunt for discussion. The lack of video or a face also weakens the ability to be able to analyze body language, to be able to properly analyze the intent of the other parties. These attributes are crucial for communication.
Things such as going in for job interview are now digitalozed (or in some fields discarded all together). Instances such as calling someone to verify an appointment or to ask questions are being replaced with text-based communications or no communication needed portals. We are currently seeing this among the millennials and Gen Z’s, but even the older Gen A’s are starting to show signs of a weaker ability to have face-to-face communication and be able to interpret body language. I’ve never liked talking on the phone in the first place, but my sister, who’s younger than me, avoids it like the plague. It’s to the point where if the thing that she’s doing doesn’t have an online portal or an ability to text, she isn’t going to do it. Because she’s not comfortable with having phone calls outside of her social circle, and she isn’t comfortable going and meeting someone to ask in person. When I’ve talked to her about it, she’s stated that she’s not different than most of her friend group, and that that’s just how it is now.
It’s scary.
I spend more then 13 between work, gaming, the telly, and my phone.
like at least 90% of my free-time waking hours
It’s like drug addiction for me.
Don’t your eyes or back get tired ? I cant sit that long
work - 8 hours family movies- 3 hours personal projects - 7 hours bed time surfing - 1 hour
19-21 hours. sometimes I have to work late which would account for about 1-2 hours.
when do I sleep? when I pass out of course.
Two
Oops, misspelling, too many.
Between reading books and articles, social media, gaming and tv shows, it’s rare that I don’t use a screen in my free time.
I really don’t think screens are the problem. It’s how you use them. Too much of one particular thing is bad (i.e. doomscrolling), but there’s nothing wrong with lots of different things with reasonable breaks.
See, I get that it’s not wise and it’s sucking life away. But I’m also being entertained, I’m learning, I’m laughing and I’m interacting. Of course it’s too much screen time, but in the past I’d have probably read magazines and books, or watched TV. Is it that different?
Not really. Other than possibly being bad for our eyes but then again are books great for eyes either ?
about 69 hours a week
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Probably only a couple hours per day.
I’m an industrial electrician and it’s all hands on minus some random testing on a laptop sometimes, but I don’t do much of that.
At home I can’t even play vidya games for more than a couple hours. I need to get up and clean or cook or read a book or do something.
I’ll watch some movies or anime if I really wanna go couch potato mode though
More than I probably should and a lot less than I will in April. After that it’s going to be even more time in front of a screen editing 30 plus hours of underwater video.
I hope that means it’s as fun as it sounds. Because it sounds like you’re having to go on a scuba trip and that sounds amazing.
Editing 30 plus hours of it, not so much. But getting that information sounds really super fun.
Yeah. It’s my favorite place. Love being under water. It’s going to be my biggest trip to date with at least 15 days of diving and 3 weeks of total time in Cozumel.
I wandered into a shop a few months after my wife passed away and was certified a couple weeks later. I went on my first ocean dive a few months after that in Cozumel and then George Town Cayman Islands. A couple months after that I completed an Advanced Open Water Certification in Jamaica where my wife was from. My Rescue Certification was completed about a year after I got started and I want to become an instructor focusing on training teens and young adults who have survived childhood abuse.
My goal is to use my Youtube channel as a funding source so I can provide the training and basic gear for free after I cover my training to become an instructor and acquire everything I need. I’m also planning to donate my time to organizations that help other people who would also benefit from learning to dive.
Editing the video is mind numbing and monotonous but I have yet to find someone else who wants to do it. It’s a lot more fun getting the footage but it had to be done to make things happen.
You have a really noble goal. I wish you the best of luck with your endeavors, you’re making the world a better place!
Thank you. I know exactly the toll that is paid by the survivors and how at peace I feel when diving so I figure sharing it with others can’t be a bad thing. I just hope things pick up steam soon.
99% of my day
Not as much as I’d like, honestly.
Everything at work is either reading or writing and that all takes place on a screen but not always I guess
Plus I watch stuff and play video games so on a weekday its probably close to majority screen time from wake to sleep
Screens are now fundamental to modernity as paper and ink was
