For about a long time now, I’ve been complaining of my eyes. I even wear glasses and all. I’ve been going to the optometrist too. What I haven’t paid attention to is my screen time. Let me run you through how I use my phone. I wake up in the morning, I look for my phone press, press, press, press. I brush my teeth while still pressing pressing pressing. I take my bath and then my break fast while still pressing. Everything I do involves some pressing on my phone.
Oh I should add that most of the time, I’m on Ecency or Snapchat. Ecency for the obvious reasons and Snapchat to check up on my friends, find out what’s going on and catch up on some things. Three days ago, my eyes hurt so bad that I just had to drop my phone at wherever I was and take a nap. Unfortunately it resorted into a headache and made me go to bed early. When I checked my screen time this morning, I realized an average of 7hours 4minutes from just last week. In fact it’s an improvement because it was about 11 hours + about some weeks ago. From what I’m thinking I believe my eyes hurting now is the aftermath of all those weeks.
If you check my screen time, the charts are not quite surprising because social and creativity takes the most of the chart. The creativity there is basically when I take pictures of my crochet, grid them and do all that I have to do. Honestly, the social part is basically Ecency. I basically sleep on Ecency and wake up on Ecency. Productivity and Finance, I have no idea. I know finance is binance and probably mtn app where I do money transactions but that’s not even much.
Going through all the charts, Sundays are the highest which is quite surprising because I’m mostly crocheting on Sundays and checking Ecency “small small”. Maybe it’s not that “small small” because the time that I spend reading post is actually a lot. I mean most people know Abenad as the “engager on hive” so it’s no secret that my chart is really high in terms of reading. Oh I should add that I mostly write on my note app before transferring it onto whatever frontend I want to use that day.
After that I spend a lot of minutes, close to an hour searching through my photos to get the right pictures for the post. Sometimes I even just take pictures for the post. Yeah, I mean make a whole set up for the post. I then check Ecency and discord especially if whatever post I’m making is for a contest.( I mean recheck the requirements and all). I then make the post and then stay up engaging on the blockchain. It’s a lot. A whole lot but the thing is I really enjoy doing this so I don’t even mind. Sometimes I wish I had extra 24 hours in the 24 hours to engage.
Let’s get to the point. Now that I’ve brought everything out, my mobile digital routine and how my screen time is affecting my eyes, I would so much love to hear any recommendations or suggestions on how to reduce my screen time. You might be tempted to say I could crochet but then crochet makes me sit behind my screen even more but that’s a story for another day.
All Images Are screenshots from iOS 16.5.1
