Welcome back my lovely readers!
Today we are going to talk about social media addiction!! (Dun dun duuuuuunnn!!) Let’s talk about social media and young people, and the benefits and challenges that the rising use of the internet poses for language-learners like ourselves.
As everyone knows, young people and their social media addiction is the fall back topic these days for anyone who wants to have a nice argument over dinner. The recommended amount of time to be spent on smartphones and such devices is a maximum of 2 hours, any more and you’re doing harm to yourself.
Just by looking around wherever you are now, it is probably obvious that most of us spend more than the recommended amount of time looking at our screens, you have to to read this blog! But just how much more time are we spending on them? To test this out, I downloaded an app called QualityTime (nice guilt-tripping there 😑) this app is available for both Android and iOS and it measures not only the amount of time you spend looking at your screen, but also the number of times you pick up your phone everyday. (Don’t ask me how it measures these things, I prefer not to speculate…)
Okay but conspiracy theories aside! My snapshots from the app unfortunately aren’t working (Because why would they, its only my grades) but to summaries, over the course of two weeks I spent approximately 2.6 hours looking at my screen every day, and picked up my phone around 36 times! This is still below average according to the app despite being very high!
I find this statistic quite worrying, and I don’t know if I’m alone in that regard, but knowing that on average people spend up to four hours on their phone each day does give me concern for people’s personal interaction. Now while some of this may be education in nature, would it be better for students, in particular for students of language, to put down our gadgets and talk to each other?
Let me know what you think down in the comments below, then get off that screen and go outside!! 😉
Until next time,
Amee x
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