Your Screen Time Means Jack

I've seen on youtube for a while these videos about reducing screen time. The thumbnail always has some ludicrously low screen time count sub-30 minutes. Which I feel already sets people with a certain expectation of how they themselves should have screen time. It seems to lead some to micromanaging their screen time data like a middle manager with nothing better to do. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't guilty of this. I would try my damnedest to get even below an hour. Then something dawned on me. What even really "counts" as screen time? Like yeah, doomscrolling certainly counts, but what about things like work or even talking with loved ones? That counts as screen time too technically speaking. This leads me wondering if the people who post pictures of their average 30 minute screen time even have a life. Like do they not text/call friends/family? Do they not do work off their phone? How are they actually getting that low of a time? It also made me question the honesty of these sorts…