How Digital Addictions Drain your Life

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You wake up in the morning. Pick up your phone. Check your notifications.

Three texts.

Check your email. Seven emails. Skim through.

Open up Instagram, scroll through stories. Then scroll through new posts. Like, like, like, comment "lol"

Close Instagram, open up Chrome. Check the news, sports, Reddit.

Open up Youtube. Watch a video that pops up on your homepage.

Watch another video. Watch a short.

Close Youtube. Open up Messenger. No new messages.

Close Messenger.

Open email. Respond to an email or two.

Close email. Open up WhatsApp. Respond to a couple texts and group chats.

Close WhatsApp. Look at the clock. Half an hour has passed. Still lying in bed.

Go to work, check your phone every 5-10 minutes for the next 8 hours, check your work email every time it pings.

Play YouTube video or a podcast in the background.

Go home, turn on Netflix, Youtube, cable television, Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Disney+. Done.

Open up your laptop, surf the internet.

Open Youtube, watch a couple videos. One more video, then I'll be productive. One more video, then one more video.

Open your smartphone. Open Instagram. Scroll through stories and posts. Open up Reddit, scroll.

Bored of watching TV, turn off Netflix, and turn on your PS4, Xbox, Switch or PC to game.

Set your alarm and go to sleep.

Wake up and do this again tomorrow.

Do a variation of this every day, every week, every month, every year, every decade for the rest of your life.

Now imagine a whole population living this way.