media engagement-goal to use my cell phone less

i’m tracking all of my media use and interaction on a daily basis. my iPhone has an option in the settings which tells you how much screen time you have used, i have only checked it a number of times, but as i just checked it i was most certainly shocked. today, January 29th 2020 my total screen time as of 7:20 pm AT is 5 hours and 8 minutes. that is quite a lot, but as i scrolled down on my phone a little, my daily average is 8 hours and 54 minutes, wow. As of today, I’ve spent 2 hours and 12 minutes social networking, 1 hour and 6 minutes on entertainment, and 4 minutes on reading and referencing. And that is just my phone, i watched a 2 hour long documentary in class today, and the television is also on in the background right now as I’m writing this. i am going to set myself a goal, to lower my screen time down on my phone to 3 hours a day, and check 1 week from today and then post the results.i feel as if that is way too much time to be spending on my phone. apart from my phone, i am going to track my other media engagement separately. the reading from the first week of class, a professor challenges her students to go a full 24 hours without using their cell phone, or any other media for the matter. i’m going to try this for my term paper, and i think trying to reduce my screen time on my phone will help me out as i get closer to start writing the paper. as of now with my weekly report on my phone, Youtube, Instagram, and Twitter are the apps I spend most time on. now that i am more conscious of how much time i’m really spending on my phone i’m starting to question why i’m doing it. In “The Longest Day”, our first reading, there is a mention of Neil Postman that thought television at the time was constraining higher thought, perhaps he was right at the time, maybe now it is electronic media that is constraining higher thought and intellect?