While I agree that, in general, people spend too much time on their phones, the stats aren't necessarily as bad as the numbers indicate for two reasons: 1. younger people watch TV and movies on their phones 2. plenty of people read on their phones, like I'm doing with this article right now. Both of these things count as "screen time." I…
While I agree that, in general, people spend too much time on their phones, the stats aren't necessarily as bad as the numbers indicate for two reasons: 1. younger people watch TV and movies on their phones 2. plenty of people read on their phones, like I'm doing with this article right now. Both of these things count as "screen time." I read books electronically on an iPad because I don't have space for physical books, and sometimes watch an episode of a TV series on my iPad before going to bed. Again, that counts toward the "screen time" statistic.
Now, watching 7 hours of TV a day is just as bad IMO as using a phone for 7 hours, maybe worse because TV is passive and at least some activities on a mobile device are active.
While I agree that, in general, people spend too much time on their phones, the stats aren't necessarily as bad as the numbers indicate for two reasons: 1. younger people watch TV and movies on their phones 2. plenty of people read on their phones, like I'm doing with this article right now. Both of these things count as "screen time." I read books electronically on an iPad because I don't have space for physical books, and sometimes watch an episode of a TV series on my iPad before going to bed. Again, that counts toward the "screen time" statistic.
Now, watching 7 hours of TV a day is just as bad IMO as using a phone for 7 hours, maybe worse because TV is passive and at least some activities on a mobile device are active.