I watched this the other night and immediately put timers on all the apps I use. It's really good, but truly cemented for me how much time is spent staring at our fuckin' phones. youtu.be/gnOUkcndoT4?... - ThreadSky

nightmaremodego.bsky.social • 159 days ago

I watched this the other night and immediately put timers on all the apps I use. It's really good, but truly cemented for me how much time is spent staring at our fuckin' phones.

https://youtu.be/gnOUkcndoT4?si=GKKCyOWr-ioSummF

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granitetide.bsky.social•159 days ago

i dont really do resolutions but i want 2025 to be the year i spend less time staring at my fucking phone (and the computer) and actually doing hobbies i enjoy instead

mpattym.bsky.social•158 days ago

In the last 24 hours the app with the highest usage (ignoring system apps) is BlueSky at just over an hour. This is a massive difference when compared to last week before I uninstalled Facebook of my phone.

steescribbles.bsky.social•159 days ago

Since last year, I've been scheduling different "modes" on my phone to block apps from running at certain times. So after midnight, all social media apps and other time consuming apps are blocked until 7am. Timers are great too, but Samsung needs to make it more difficult to change the settings.

odhran.fun•159 days ago

I realised the other day all I do on my phone is bounce between discord, twitter, bluesky and the news. Just fully conditioned myself to be addicted at looking one of those 4 at all times

nightmaremodego.bsky.social•159 days ago

Aye man, it's hellish. But to even be aware of it is already a good sign.

nightmaremodego.bsky.social•159 days ago

There's a particularly harrowing bit in this with a maw whose son killed himself a few days after seeing that Logan Paul forest video, and by fuck if you didnae hate the cunt before now...

nightmaremodego.bsky.social•159 days ago

The proposal about not letting weans have phones until they're 14 still feels far too young to me with the state of the internet.

nightmaremodego.bsky.social•159 days ago

There's a 12 year old lassie in the doc with such a good heid on her shoulders. Seems wise beyond her years, and then you find out when she was 10 she was likely being groomed through her phone by someone who then created hate pages about her when she wanted to cut contact.

schillingc.bsky.social•159 days ago

Jesus Christ. I berate myself sometimes for how long I spend on my phone, but at the same time I can't help but feel lucky I grew up without them.

nightmaremodego.bsky.social•159 days ago

It must be a nightmare man. As I was halfway through secondary we only really JUST had camera phones.

I cannae imagine how bad it must be now.

nightmaremodego.bsky.social•159 days ago

Suddenly it feels like seeing another wean who was forced to grow up far too quickly.

So fuckin' sad, man.

gaaaaaaaaaaaaavin.bsky.social•159 days ago

Partner's pal did PhD fieldwork on technology in school and hearing about it is MEGA grim.

Whole schools with 100% of kids monitored / surveyed openly admitting to using LLMs to do all their work even in-class anaw.

nightmaremodego.bsky.social•159 days ago

I mind some chat from a teacher who couldn't get through to a student that his work was wrong, and he kept saying "I looked it up like you told me to" and when the teacher asked to see, the boy opened chatGPT.

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