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How to Be Smarter About Our Smartphones

All the news in recent weeks and months about TikTok has drawn more attention to a problem that that has already gotten attention.

How much time is too much time when it comes to spending your time looking at your smart phone on line.

And it’s not just a problem for younger folks and teens, many of whom went into panic mode when TikTok shut down for a few hours.

A poll of a 2,000 adults found that the average person will spend 34 years of their entire lives looking at their phones and tablets.

This poll found that the average adult starts looking at screens within 20 minutes of getting out of bed, many doing it as soon as they got out of bed.

And that the typical adult will spend more than half of their 24 hour day looking at screens.

And many of those polled admit to spending less than half of their screen time productively.

Among the parents in this survey, about 40 percent said their kids spend too much time on their devices, even though they’re the ones in charge.

And this study suggests that while smartphones are here to stay, it may not be so smart to use them every minute of every day in the same way.

Many surveys have found similar results.

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