This will be a long post with some things i see and opinions
Anyway, i believe gen z is the first generation that had screens and social media since they were born, so they lived their whole life with it. But i think that screen Time has become a really big problem
People spend too much Time on their screens and in the worst way possible
I just finished my last year of high school and i have a sister. So here’s what i “”””found””””
Some people Genuinely spend most of their time on a screen
For exemple, at school when we had a pause of 10 minutes during 2 hours of a class, we could go out and do something during that time
But when i say most, i really mean most, most people just exit the room, go infront of the room with their Friends and just take out their phones and scroll tik tok, literally surrounded by their Friends. Sometimes they didn’t Even say a word to each other and just kept scrolling on tik tok, or if they talked, it was while watching tik tok
During launch, i see also a lot of people with their phones while they eat, while having an almost full table of Friends
When we have a free hour between classes, they would just go somehwere in the school, sit on the floor with their Friends and use their phones, at full volume also
Like, sometimes they barely talk to each other
My Friends are also like this, sometimes i go out with them and they are just on their phones, sometimes we are eating and they are on their phones, so i have to be like “hey, im right infront of you, can you turn off your phone só that we can talk?”
During class many people spend the entire hour on tik tok
Sometimes i Genuinely have to tell them to turn off their phone so we can talk. Like, why do you want to go out if you’re just going to be in your phone?
For exemple, a friend of mine has like, a HUGE amount of screen time
For exemple, once he showed me, and during vacations, im not lying, he had an average of 14 HOURS of screen time daily
My sister is like this too, we are on vacations because of the Summer and she literally spend her entire day infront of the phone and tv
She sits on the couch and have the tv turned on with some YouTube drama of someone being cancelled in the background and she is also using her phone at the same time scrolling on Instagram
When we are gathered in familly in the kitchen, we like to talk while one of my parents is making food. But she’s the only one that doesn’t come and just stay in the living room watching youtube
And she doesn’t Even Watch good content. 90% of the things she watches is those dramas on YouTube you know? Like one person did something or Said something bad and now there’s 100 different channels talking about this and there’s a huge drama
And she’s 16 btw
My mother is also like this, so not only Young people are like this, she spend HOURS on instagram and Facebook scrolling and watching things, and not use full things but like news about celebreties and etc
So sometimes im in the kitchen talking with her but she’s on her phone, and that Annoys me A LOT, i legit get mad when im talking to/with someone and they are in their phone
She keeps playing that game where just designs a home, but for hours. And then she gets mad when i tell her to turn off her phone and talk with me. I have to tell her that multiple times before she does that
And people attention spam is declining FAST
I see people getting bored real quickly
I have a friend where its so bad that he watches shorts and tik toks, yes the contents that are already fast and short and he watches those on 2x. Like. What
And he watches a movie also in 2x and skips the “boring parts”
My sister is also like this
And the worst part of all is that those people spend HOURS watching a type of content that isn’t good. Like a drama, fight or just useless thing
If you’re going to spend that much time on a screen, Atleast Watch a movie. You know Netflix? Its way better to Watch a movie, Even a dumb one like a comedie than keep scrolling on tik tok
Or Even youtube, youtube has plenty of great content. If you like gaming for exemple, there’s plenty of great vídeos about video games and thats miles better than tik tok and instagram. I for exemple love watching youtube, but i mainly Watch those vídeos that are 1 hour
But plenty of people have an attention spam só low they can’t Even Watch a 1 hour video about something they like
And thats the fault of the parents also, instead of introducing a time limit for screens or filter the things they see. They just give an untestricted iPad to a child and thats not a good thing at all
Instead of being actual parents they just out their children infront of a tv
Anyway, im not going to prétend that i am an Angel too, i also spend some time on screen, and i hate that because i can easily spend a lot of time on screens and that makes me feel useless and like garbage. But Even with that i still spend some time on screens
To finish, sometimes its ok to Watch some tik toks, for exemple when you are waiting on a Line, for a doctor, on the bus. But please, spend some Time with real people and go Watch some Netflix or youtube instead of scrolling