Device Usage and Screen Boundaries

You’re lying in bed, phone in hand. You tell yourself it’ll be five minutes. Just one video. One scroll. One last message. Suddenly, 45 minutes pass. You’re more awake than before. Your eyes sting. And somehow, sleep now feels harder, not closer. Welcome to the all-too-common digital bedtime spiral — one where screens, instead of Read More

You walk into the living room and instinctively reach for your phone. Not to check anything urgent, just… out of habit. Maybe you open a social app, skim a few updates, or turn on the TV for background noise. It’s not bad, per se, but by the end of the evening, you wonder where your Read More

You wake up on Saturday, phone in hand, eyes still adjusting. Notifications pour in — messages, updates, reminders, headlines. You scroll absentmindedly, and before your feet even hit the floor, you’re already mentally overstimulated. Sound familiar? The weekend, meant to be a pause, often becomes another extension of the workweek — just with more scrolling, Read More

You check your phone. Then again, five minutes later. Then again, without realising. It’s not just you. The average person taps, swipes, or clicks their device more than 2,600 times a day. Most of this isn’t deliberate. It’s reflexive. It’s habitual. It’s exhausting. That’s why more people are turning to device usage hours — specific Read More