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FaithTech , explained his rationale for founding the site after “ I realised I was looking at what some random person said on Twitter before saying good morning to my wife ." According to Digital Sabbath ’ s website , “ thousands of people ” now observe a day of digital rest .
I am , as I think we ’ ve probably established by now , a heavy screen user . Even setting aside time spent watching TV ( I ’ m currently getting through an average of one season of Grey ’ s Anatomy every eight days ), drawing and reading on my tablet , playing video games , and working on my laptop , I managed to spend a staggering 16 % of my life looking at my smartphone over the past seven days . That ’ s 27 hours and 32 minutes . I spend one day a week . One whole day . Looking at my phone .
I ’ m not alone , and I ’ m not even that far past the bell curve . In a study conducted in February 2021 , almost half of respondents said that they spent between five and six hours on their phones every day - not including work use .
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