I’m glad this is our prompt this week. I think about my technology usage and how it impacts my life on a regular basis. I set a goal for myself to use my phone 4.5 hours a day. I’ll admit that it was really tough to hit that for a long time. This year I have decided to become more disciplined about it and have become more successful.
The apps that I use most frequently are leisure apps – social media mostly. I am on my Google Drive a surprising amount, though!
I mostly use my notes app to stay organized – I have a running to do list, a thoughts, and a goals list. I will go through the notes once in a while and reorganize them into my planner or journal. I put medical appointments into my phone calendar and have a shared google calendar with my parents for childcare purposes.
The apps that take up the most time and are the most distracting are Tik Tok and Instagram. I have chosen to avoid the FYP on Tik Tok, and I only scroll the page of the people I follow. If I let myself go on the FYP, I could be on there for an hour easily, watching mindless videos of things I don’t even care about! I regularly unfollow accounts if I find they no longer serve me!
I find my biggest struggle now is that I tend to burn my screen time out on leisure things, and then I’m sick of screens but still have work/academic tasks to do. I need to start finishing my academic work earlier in the day so I still have the screen energy for the important tasks!
