For about a long time now, I’ve been complaining of my eyes. I even wear glasses and all. I’ve been going to the optometrist too. What I haven’t paid attention to is my screen time. Let me run you through how I use my phone. I wake up in the morning, I look for my phone press, press, press, press. I brush my teeth while still pressing pressing pressing. I take my bath and then my break fast while still pressing. Everything I do involves some pressing on my phone.
Oh I should add that most of the time, I’m on Ecency or Snapchat. Ecency for the obvious reasons and Snapchat to check up on my friends, find out what’s going on and catch up on some things. Three days ago, my eyes hurt so bad that I just had to drop my phone at wherever I was and take a nap. Unfortunately it resorted into a headache and made me go to bed early. When I checked my screen time this morning, I realized an average of 7hours 4minutes from just last week. In fact it’s an improvement because it was about 11 hours + about some weeks ago. From what I’m thinking I believe my eyes hurting now is the aftermath of all those weeks.
If you check my screen time, the charts are not quite surprising because social and creativity takes the most of the chart. The creativity there is basically when I take pictures of my crochet, grid them and do all that I have to do. Honestly, the social part is basically Ecency. I basically sleep on Ecency and wake up on Ecency. Productivity and Finance, I have no idea. I know finance is binance and probably mtn app where I do money transactions but that’s not even much.
Going through all the charts, Sundays are the highest which is quite surprising because I’m mostly crocheting on Sundays and checking Ecency “small small”. Maybe it’s not that “small small” because the time that I spend reading post is actually a lot. I mean most people know Abenad as the “engager on hive” so it’s no secret that my chart is really high in terms of reading. Oh I should add that I mostly write on my note app before transferring it onto whatever frontend I want to use that day.
After that I spend a lot of minutes, close to an hour searching through my photos to get the right pictures for the post. Sometimes I even just take pictures for the post. Yeah, I mean make a whole set up for the post. I then check Ecency and discord especially if whatever post I’m making is for a contest.( I mean recheck the requirements and all). I then make the post and then stay up engaging on the blockchain. It’s a lot. A whole lot but the thing is I really enjoy doing this so I don’t even mind. Sometimes I wish I had extra 24 hours in the 24 hours to engage.
Let’s get to the point. Now that I’ve brought everything out, my mobile digital routine and how my screen time is affecting my eyes, I would so much love to hear any recommendations or suggestions on how to reduce my screen time. You might be tempted to say I could crochet but then crochet makes me sit behind my screen even more but that’s a story for another day.
All Images Are screenshots from iOS 16.5.1
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Abenad the engager 🙌🏾
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I hope they seize your phone for a day to rest your eyes 😂
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Ahh, I can't even look at my own chart but I can say you're trying small. My eyes used to hurt a lot before but its starting to adapt and I'm a bit scared I'll be needing glasses as I age. It is well though. Hopefully we learn to balance things out.
Oh if I’m trying small then I think yours is really worse
Hopefully it’s get better indeed
Sheesh. And I though I was the only one spending so much time on my phone. My is usually 13 hours on an average.
I wonder if iOS devices have reading mode kind of thing. That reduces blue light and sort of makes the phone more comfty and less eye-straining to look at, especially for long hours. You should try it if you don't already... Mine automatically comes on around 6:50 p.m. and even comes with "paper mode."
I will try and use that mode because this is becoming too much and I’m getting tired already…I already wear glasses, I don’t have to to upgrade to googles or something
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Let's see how it works, then.
Let’s see
My dear in as much as we love these things we shouldn't sacrifice our health to the internet. Remember that all the money we make wouldn't be pleasurably enjoyed if our health is tampered with in the long run.
Take care of your eyes
Reduce your screen time
Use eye care mode on your phone
Yes I will try that
Thank you so much for your concern
In as much as we love something's but it should be done minimally so try have a time for Everything
#dreemerforlife#
Yes please
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Sorry about the way your eyes hurts though...But I can actually relate to this phone addiction kills me too...As an artist i do scroll into several Instagram feeds looking at different sets of art works atleast 11 hours or more each day to update my knowledge on my craft...but I discovered I was pains in my eyes like last 2 weeks..Which made me reduce the way I use IG most especially...thank god I didn't go blind because I was so scared😂.
Ahhh thank God you didn’t go blind because some of us are already on the way
Yeah...God has been faithful....but do you still use glasses ?
Yes I do