Ungodly Amount · Wired
The Screen Time Maximalists Who Spend an Ungodly Amount of Time on Their Phones
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“I'm reading a book or playing a game pretty much from waking to sleeping,” Dreiss tells WIRED.
Key facts
- Dreiss currently keeps their phone’s autolock feature disabled so they can continuously run a mobile game that pays out $35 for every 110 hours logged. (They’ve earned about $16 so far.)
- Corina Diaz, 45, who lives in a remote forested region of Ontario, Canada, works in video game marketing and does influencer management for a game publisher
- But Diaz has sought friendships online since the 1990s, when that meant availing herself of tools like Internet Relay Chat and bulletin board systems
- Diaz met her husband online in 2005 and had a child three years ago—her screen time increased when she was awake at strange hours because of her newborn, she says
Summary
Morgan Dreiss, a copy editor in Orlando, has severe ADHD that they say requires them to always be “doing at least three things at once.” The result? For years, studies have brought forth worrying data about the potential negative effects of excessive screen time on both physical and cognitive health. While the question of whether one can be clinically “ addicted ” to something like social media remains a subject of fierce contention, there seems to be a broad consensus in this decade that people would be better off scrolling less. Yet there are those, like Dreiss, who resist the emerging common wisdom about reducing screen time.