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But "screen time" tells you nothing. Is this video games? Conversation with friends? Browsing through one-liner/tweet forums? Watching documentaries? News? Films? TV shows? Porn?

Is this happening in public? While driving a car? In the presence of friends?

Is this interaction purposeful, like taking an on-line course? Like learning or improving a skill?

Is the viewer actively engaged or passive? Are they consumer or producer? Are they repeating mindless conspiracies or writing independent, informed, well reasoned argument? Or are they performing, recording it, and posting it online?

Without a lot more context, pushing "screen time" as a sign of the impending apocalypse is just more disinfo.



Reading books too.

One week I was particularly aghast at my screen time measure until I realised it was counting maps and music via CarPlay when I was driving for hours a day on a remote job.




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