quarantine and media usage at an all time high

The schools have been shut down for nearly a week, and I’m finding myself using my phone more than ever, despite having tons of school work to do along with catching up with tons of other responsibilities. I went on a ski trip last weekend and i told myself that whenever things weren’t super exciting i wouldn’t resort to looking and scrolling through my phone. my screen time from when i was away was significantly lower than the week prior, which i expected. when i was away my average screen time on Friday Saturday and Sunday was 1.4 hours. thats pretty good seeing as I’m going to have to go completely media free for 24 hours before i start writing my paper. as the paper deadline is approaching, I’m becoming slightly nervous about how successful i am when i do the 24 hour media fast. since I’ve been in quarantine due to the COVID-19 virus it’s pretty difficult to not pay attention to your cell phone I’m finding, I’m also watching more Netflix than usual. for example, with all of the time I’m convincing myself i have while in quarantine, i’m now binge watching tv-shows on a weekday rather than waiting for the weekend. besides that, i did delete my Instagram account for about a week, i’ve heard of a bunch of people doing it for a sort of “reset” and i can say for sure it has helped with my ability to focus during that time, but now i have re-downloaded the app, i think that could be classified as addiction, but who knows. during this period so far of trying to limit my cellphone and social media use, i have learned that looking at my cell phone is the default thing to do when nothing else is going on. for instance, when i get tired or want to take a break from writing the essay i’m currently working on i’ll take a break and look at my phone. another thing that i have realized since trying to reduce my social media use, is that: the less i look at social media the more confident i am, and being unreachable is sort of nice sometimes. when i deleted my Instagram account, i wasn’t keeping up with what my friends were sharing which made it all the better when i saw them in person, and they asked “hey did you see that meme i sent you?” besides that, in light of COVID19 virus and amidst being in the middle of this very strange time; i’ve decided to activate “downtime” on my cell phone from 5:00 pm to 10: pm every night. next week i’ll log the amount of school work i get done during those hours and see how much more work i can get done.