Your phone is making you bored

It seems that, no matter where I turn, I can’t escape the talk about how we use our phones. It’s understandable they are an inescapable part of our lives, and for many of us, myself included, I can’t imagine life without one; the ability to contact someone anytime anywhere is a given of modern life. It wasn’t always such but I won’t bore you with tales of my childhood, of arranging pub meets via answerphone messages, of not having the internet at our fingertips and learning by doing or reading. Ultimately, many people are baulking at the amount of time they spend staring at their small screen and are trying to find alternatives or at least an option or two to help them regain some balance. I am such a person. Dumbing us down I removed all my social media apps from my phone at the start of the year. They have crept back on but my usage of them is far far below what it was as I doom scrolled my way through 2025. It’s worth remembering that social media apps are very very good at what…