Excessive screen time can affect health, productivity, and relationships. Finding a healthy balance between digital use and reallife activities is a growing challenge in modern society.
I haven’t had a phone number in over a decade. I use a small tablet that is WiFi only. most of the time, if I don’t need a map, I leave it at home. I’m able to keep up with screen time without the urge for continuous content dominating my life.
it wasn’t by intention, but has worked out well.
my wife does have a phone, so access is available in some sort of emergency or necessity
Je pense que l'objectif n'est plus vraiment de "réduire le temps d'écran", mais d'être plus intentionnel avec celui-ci.
Aujourd'hui, le travail, l'éducation et même une partie de la vie sociale passent par les écrans. Le problème n'est donc pas forcément le nombre d'heures, mais la part de temps passée à consommer sans but.
Ce qui m'aide personnellement, c'est de distinguer :
Les deux peuvent représenter le même nombre d'heures, mais ils n'ont pas le même impact.
J'ai aussi remarqué qu'essayer de supprimer complètement les écrans fonctionne rarement. Remplacer une partie de ce temps par une activité concrète (sport, lecture, sortie, hobby) est souvent plus efficace que de simplement se fixer une limite.
Le paradoxe moderne est qu'on a besoin des écrans pour travailler et rester connecté, mais qu'on doit aussi apprendre à ne pas les laisser occuper tous les moments vides de la journée.
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I feel it's so easy to fill every minute with checking phone and ending up scrolling social media. What works best for me to reduce some screen time is the modes you can set on your phone. I have a work mode which blocks all the social media platforms so even if I'd have the urge to reach for the phone, the apps are frozen for the time being. Also I have an evening mode, where again from 9.30pm I take it as my sacred time and all the distracting apps pause until the next day.
But then...of course it's easy to turn that mode off right? So in the end it's a conscious decision of how you want to spend the time. I've heard about the habit replacing. If the habit was to reach for the phone what can I do instead? Now in the mornings instead of reaching for the phone I reach for my journal and book to spend my mornings without the screen.
I set limits on most of my phone social apps. The forced stop usually breaks me out of endless scrolling.
Your phone is basically a slot machine in your pocket. Dopamine spikes harder in anticipation of a possible message if a notification comes through. I think it's all about setting clear boundaries for yourself and prioritizing.
Had a call with a customer this morning that crystalized something I've been thinking about. He walked me through an experiment he ran with Canva's AI to make a carousel from a blog post: * Pasted his blog, asked for a carousel. Got one page. * Asked for 6 pages. * Asked it to apply his brand kit. Colors came back close but not right, and inconsistent across slides. * A few more prompts. Still not right. Gave up. Every single step was a prompt. Every output was "almost right." And every almost-right output meant another round trip of explaining what he wanted in words instead of just... fixing it directly. This is the thing I don't see discussed enough in the AI tools conversation. There's a whole category of tools where the AI is technically "doing the work" but you're spending all your time managing the AI instead of managing the content. The prompting *is* the work. You've just traded Canva clicking for Canva describing. For context, I'm the founder of WaveGen (a content repurposing tool that turns text into branded carousels, quote cards, etc). So I'm obviously biased here, but that's why it's built with an editor that can edit everything generated. When a user does edit, they edit directly — moves the thing, changes the text, drags & drops the layout. No re-prompting. I'm not saying prompting is bad across the board. For first draft image generation, writing, brainstorming, prompting makes sense. But for visual content where y*ou want small adjustment to see what feels right*? The prompt loop is a UX problem disguised as a feature. Curious if others are running into this same friction with other tools. What's your experience been?
If you use Instagram, you will notice there are so many Indian accounts, even some American accounts are being operated by indians. I mean fake US accounts. not to be racist here. but it's hard to sell your services on Instagram because Indian audience doesn't pay much nor they actually pay you. Suppose, you start a theme page on Instagram, your 90% audience will be indian even though if you are from the US. How do I reach the US. people? Which platform do the US people actually use? Discord is a good platform but hard to trust anyone there. Instagram is trash with stupid content Idk about TikTok and twitter. How do I actually make money online? Where do you find most of your clients as a freelancer?
i’ve been trying to grow my ig for a while now and it feels like i’m just stuck in the same place no matter what i post. i’m not expecting to blow up overnight or anything, but i’d at least like to see some steady movement. path social keeps showing up on my feed lately and i got curious. from what i understand it’s supposed to help you reach people who are actually interested in your niche instead of just padding the follower count. has anyone here actually used it for a few weeks or months? did the followers feel real and did they actually engage, or was it mostly just a bigger number on the profile? just looking for actual experiences before i spend money on it.
I think it’s easy to mix up “I need more content” with “I need to shoot something new.” Once a video is published, it’s finished. You’re already on to the next idea. But every now and then, there’s a useful explanation in the middle of an old video that could stand on its own. Or a mistake you fixed on camera. Or an example that got overlooked because it wasn’t the point of the video. Before you film again, try opening one of your older uploads and finding one moment that answers one clear question. Not “Can I trim 30 seconds here?” More like: “If someone never saw the original, would this still be useful to them?” Give that moment a title before you cut it. If you can’t say why it’s worth watching, choosing start and end points probably won’t save it. There’s a real problem, though: sometimes the upload is the only copy you have within reach. I film on my iPhone and make YouTube videos. I delete finished videos when I run out of space. Then I remember a clip I could use in a new edit, and it’s gone from my phone. I came across [Tunexa.io](https://tunexa.io/) and tried its video-clip download feature. In this case, I can paste the link to my own uploaded video and download just the part I need, instead of pulling the whole video back onto my phone. I’d still use the original files when I have them. This doesn’t bring back an editing project or replace backups. But it does let me work with a moment I’ve already shot instead of starting over. Do you actually go back and reuse your older videos, or do you mentally retire them the moment they’re published?
Imagine you work all summer, as a then 12, old to launch your own business. She did EVERYTHING herself, AI generated website, manually built a database of service locations (this took her about 30 hours, cemetery locations), Order taking ability, payment processing and customer database built within that site. Logo's, flyers, business cards, social media accounts..etc..all done by her Months of work, and last night (9.15.2026) she decided to go live...and by live basically sharing her FB profile on my facebook page, an various local FB 'service provider' groups. Then.. last night about a half hour later... "Dad!!! we got a comment" Then dead silence... Greg Colton (Family Guy Director), who I've known for probably 20+ years, posted this comment. It's been delete but I have a screen shot (not sure I can attach it but will try) "Sorry, she created nothing. This is AI slop & children should not be using it. This kills any identity a brand might want to have & closes Wallets" The kid literally had a tear running down her face when I got to the table she was working at. I'd love for her to get home from school today and have a $hitton of followers.  As someone that obviously knows NOTHING about the market, What do you guys suggest?  The business is called Shine After Life, which is a headstone cleaning service in the Buffalo NY area inspired by her grandpa (my dad) who is no longer with us. I'd like to post the FB page and website so you can see what she's done but I am not sure it's allowed? Many Thanks to all who chime in!Â
We run several scheduled/automated social accounts, and for a long stretch the number we watched was engagement rate, likes plus comments over reach. It looked healthy for months while the account was actually dying underneath it. What was happening: the algorithm kept surfacing posts to people who reliably engage with things, not people who buy things. Engagement rate stayed flat to up, profile clicks and DMs went quiet, then down. Two very different audiences can produce the same top-line number. The thing we started watching instead: saves and shares as a share of total engagement, not the raw count. A like costs the viewer nothing. A save or a share means they are telling their own audience this is worth their time, and that ratio was already sliding the wrong direction for weeks before the dashboard we were actually looking at showed anything. If you are running content on autopilot, a rising engagement number is not proof anything is working. Worth checking what kind of engagement it actually is before you scale whatever appears to be working.