Re:How much time do you spend on your phone each day?
by newaccount74 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @01:24PM
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I also spend hours a day on my phone. Mostly in the evenings, but also during the day.
My childhood memories are my dad either sitting at the kitchen table and reading a newspaper, or him lying in bed reading Dick Francis.
It's the same thing basically. Human minds like cheap distractions, especially if there are no other urgent things to do.
At a superficial level it seems like a flaw ("There must be more productive ways to spend the time"), but I'm sure there's an evolutinary reason why we are like that.
Maybe these distractions are a way to prevent us from overworking, because mindlessly reading stuff is a lot less exhausting than doing something productive for 14 hours a day. Maybe it's a way for our body to rest when we're not ready to sleep yet, or something.
My childhood memories are my dad either sitting at the kitchen table and reading a newspaper, or him lying in bed reading Dick Francis.
It's the same thing basically. Human minds like cheap distractions, especially if there are no other urgent things to do.
At a superficial level it seems like a flaw ("There must be more productive ways to spend the time"), but I'm sure there's an evolutinary reason why we are like that.
Maybe these distractions are a way to prevent us from overworking, because mindlessly reading stuff is a lot less exhausting than doing something productive for 14 hours a day. Maybe it's a way for our body to rest when we're not ready to sleep yet, or something.