What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation
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Teachers say mobile phones make their lives a living hell – so one Massachusetts school barred them

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  • super_user_do@feddit.itEnglish
    53·
    11 months ago

    Today my computer science teacher asked a friend of mine to show his screentime statistics as a joke. Bro literally spent an average of +11h A DAY on his phone…

    • Dagwood222@lemm.eeEnglish
      39·
      11 months ago

      Smartphones and apps are scientifically designed to be addictive. The same techniques that make people spend hours at slot machines goes into modern games.

    • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      I’m paranoid about checking mine… Plus my Deck and computer (for work). It’s probably more than your mate.

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        I configure mine to show it to me weekly. It helps me keep tabs on a low social media diet. I’ve been reading, playing music and watching movies more frequently thanks to that.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I was curious so I looked at mine, it isn’t accurate, it says 10 hours 22 minutes average, but it says 7 of that is gaming, there’s no way i spend 7 hours of gaming, maybe an hour max a day because the only game I play is ants fallen kingdom which doesn’t require much active tike, just enough time to do dailies so 45 mins? , I’m on social media a hell of a lot more then gaming but my social is only at roughly 2 hours. I don’t think you can rely on it lol

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Jesus. I’m at just above two hours for my weekly average. It used to be 8-10 hours daily when I had a job where I had to leave my house, go into an office, and not do any work. Now that I do the same thing but from home, I don’t need to use my phone as much.