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
I spend more then 13 between work, gaming, the telly, and my phone.
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.
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.
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 ?
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Oops, misspelling, too many.
Less than most, cause a lot of my gaming happens at a table upstairs by myself. I have fun though, and that’s what counts.
This looks dope. I should really play with myself more.
Yeah, I can easily lose three hours in one go in front of Arydia.
about 69 hours a week
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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
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.
9 to 10 hours a day for me.
But I work from home and work in IT. Also, my two main D&D groups play online as we’re spread out all over the country.
we’re spread out all over the country.
Did you use a spatula or cremate and drop in the jetstream?
Funny enough that’s what I want. No idiotic grave that will just be dug up in 25 years where my remains will be dealt with in other ways that my family would have no control over.
Just cremate me and spread my ashes above 10000ft (3050m for my more civilized friends). Then I will forever become a resident of the sky, which is my favorite place to be.
As far as my friends go… Ehhh my last TPK was with a meteor storm spell
That’s a cool plan. Cremation or tree pod burial for myself.
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Way more than what should be concidered healthy. Mostly due to necessity(hobby and work), but I am trying to cut down the amount of time that I’m on Lemmy or social media networks.
Even hobbies that I have go in front of the computer. Like D&D, I do via Roll20. Development, I do obviously on my system. The media that I consume is mostly YouTube or Twitch.
I would estimate that I’m probably on the computer roughly 13-15 hours a day between coding, gaming, social media and surfing the web.
edit: If I didn’t even think about my phone, if I included the phone, I probably am on it. From the time I wake up to the time I sleep. (on and off with the phone though)
