i’m ok with my screentime
I’ve been toying around in Decker making a screentime visualizer tool, until I realized I don’t care about screentime anymore.
It used to be this big evil number, and I get why; if you doomscroll news, get stuck on feeds for hours, waste time in huge Discord servers and all that, it’s a problem. A shocking metric. But when you’re off of that, what’s the harm? I don’t have unnecessary apps or notifications, no social media, no news addiction, not busy with keeping up on Discord. Natively built-in screentime tracking was invented for all that, yet I can’t exclude essential apps from its time tracking, thus it loses its nuance and purpose.
What’s the harm of an 8 hour screentime if it was for 6 hours of driving and having maps open? Why should I care about an hour of YouTube if I was on the treadmill during that time? Or that hour of digitally reading a book? Man, my screentime is like 4 hours a day because of Apple Fitness plus and writing in the Notes app, too. So? It all serves me well.
I’m a phone person in all the right ways. I love my digital reminders and calendar, or being able to send pictures of things to friends; I like writing posts where ever, having all kinds of lists in the notes app. I’m recording workouts, having maps and public transport on there, there’s all my alarms and timers. I’m seeing kind emails from strangers and funny messages from friends… it’s not a stress rectangle if you don’t design it to be. So I don’t see a reason to be on my phone less to reduce a number.
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Published 27 Jan, 2025