Screentime Log

[soos_mite_ah]

7/30/2025

Screentime: 3 hours 58 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 42 min 

• Mostly music

Instagram: 52 min 

• I was sporadically checking this throughout the day but I will say a solid 36 of those minutes was recently between 9 and 11 pm. I think I want to cut down on the sporadic usage going forward and be a bit more intentional if I'm going to block off time. I think my mentality when I find myself looking at this and Tiktok sporadically is like I scroll for 2 minutes, then I'm like *oh, I'm not supposed to be doing this, let me find other ways to regulate myself*, and then I close out of the app. I think this is just part of the process of me decreasing my social media usage but it's another metric that I can be mindful of.

Tiktok: 14 min 

• Again, sporadic usage. 

Hexa Sort: 25 min 

• I was playing this as I was on the phone with my boyfriend. 

Safari: 16 min 

• I just viewed the forum briefly in the morning while I was at work. 

[soos_mite_ah]

7/31/2025

Screentime: 3 hours 13 min 

Youtube: 2 hours 27 min 

• Most of this was music, about an hour of this was poltical content on Youtube. 

Hexa Sort: 28 min 

• I played this for like 7 minutes during a boring meeting at work and for like 21 minutes while I was watching Youtube videos. 

Instagram: 27 min 

• spent like 12 minutes on it in the morning and like 15 minutes on it after work

Tiktok: 9 min 

• I just spent this time at like 12:01 am before I tried to go to sleep last night. So technically this falls under today because of the time but in my mind, this is for yesterday lol. 

Thoughts: I think my phone usage was pretty tame today. I think part of that is because I has some family social stuff going on and because work generally kept me busy. 

Edited August 2 by soos_mite_ah

[soos_mite_ah]

8/01/2025 

Screentime: 4 hours 30 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 49 min 

• Pretty much all music 

Instagram: 59 min 

• Very sporadic: 
  • 7am - 8am : 6 min 
  • 8am- 9am: 18 min (calls were slow at work and I had nothing better to do lol) 
  • 11 am - 12 pm: 10 min (another period of slowness) 
  • 12 pm -1pm : 1 min 
  • 1pm - 2pm: 2 min
  • 5pm - 6pm: 2 min 
  • 7pm - 8 pm: 1 min
  • 8pm - 9pm: 10 min (I was at my uncle's house bored lol)
• I need to learn how to better deal with boredom lol. 

Messages: 30 min 

• sent a couple audio messages to a friend going through something

Hexa Sort: 25 min

• played like 15 min in the afternoon to decompress from my day and like 10 min in the morning 

Tiktok: 18 min 

• checked it in the morning for like 6 min and spent like 10 min on it in the afternoon. 
  • Ngl, I do get weirded out when I notice that I'm on social media at like 7 am in the morning whenever I do these logs and I actually write things out and bring my habits to light. 

Photos: 15 min

• scrolled through my camera roll and deleted some things. 

[soos_mite_ah]

8/2/2025 

Screentime: 3 hours 17 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 38 min

• watched a few video essays 

Safari: 1 hour 12 min 

• I don't think this is an accurate number. It says that I spent an hour on Safari from 9 pm-10pm. I checked a couple things online but I wasn't on there the entire hour. I think I just had the app open. Plus, if this were the case, my screentime would add up to more than the 3 hours and 17 min shown after taking the other apps to consideration. 

Instagram: 37 min

• I checked Instagram from 1am to 2am in the morning for 7 min, from 5pm -6pm for 10 min, from 8pm -9pm for 10 min, and from 9pm to 10pm for another 10 min. 

Hexa Sort: 26 min

• I was playing this in the evening while listening to a video essay.   

Tiktok: 21 min 

• I spent this time from 10-12pm. 

Thoughts: My screentime felt kind of low today. Usually that is the case if I have a packed or social day but I didn't do jack shit today. I spent a lot of time just relaxing tbh and I think it's a good sign that I'm able to relax without zoning out in front of a screen. I was also playing around with the settings on my phone and I saw that there is a way to disable your phone usuage between certain hours of the day.  This is with the exception of a couple of communication apps, the clock app, and maps. I'm going to try that out by disabling my phone usage from 10 pm to 9 am in the morning. 

[soos_mite_ah]

8/3/2025

Screentime:  2 hours 55 min 

Tiktok: 45 min 

• I hit up against my limit and decided to stop then and there. 
• This wasn't sporadic. This happened between 11am to 1pm. 

Maps: 40 min 

• I went to a coffee shop like 20 min away from my home and so I needed the GPS to navigate there and back. 

Messages: 32 min 

• Talked to a few people and responded to some messages 

Instagram: 15 min 

• This was very sporadic. From 10 am to 11am, I spent 2 min on the app. From 11am to 12pm it was 2 min. From 1pm to 2pm it was 1 min. From 3pm to 4pm it was 1 min. From 5pm to 6pm it was 9 min.
  • I guess since the algorithm isn't tailored to me, I don't get sucked into it in the way that TikTok sucks me in and that's why my use is more sporadic. Still, I feel like a crackhead when I keep checking like this even if I'm not spending an extend period of time on the app.  

Safari: 7 min 

• Had a couple of random google searches. 

[soos_mite_ah]

8/4/2025 

Screentime: 5 hours 27 min 

Youtube: 2 hours 32 min 

• I did listen to a lot of video essays while working. 

Hexa Sort: 1 hour 21 min 

• I don't trust this number because it says I was on Hexa Sort for 53 minutes between 8-9pm. I think I just had the app open but I wasn't using this. 

Tiktok: 56 min 

• I found that most of this was right at my lunch hour. 

Tetris: 43 min 

• It says the entire duration was between 8-9pm. I think I played it for a few minutes and the app was just left open.

Instagram: 17 min 

• This was pretty sporadic throughout the day. 

Thoughts: I think I was just having an existential crisis this day so I was seeking out content and understanding to cope. I can't say that I felt good, but I didn't feel bad either. 

 

 

8/5/2025 

Screentime: 3 hours 44 min 

Youtube: 3 hours 

• mostly music with a couple video essays sprinkled in. 

Notes: 1 hour 10 min

• I spent some time on it to create a grocery list and go shopping. But it says I was on it for 55 min ffrom 5-6 pm which doesn't add up. 

Instagram: 1 hour 3 min 

• It says that I checked it for 8 min between 4-5pm which checks out. But it also says I was on there for 55 min between 5-6pm. I was cooking dinner at that time.  

Threads: 55 min 

• The entire amount was between 5 and 6pm. Again, I was cooking dinner during that time. I was not on Threads. Maybe I checked it for like 10 min but then I left the app open?

Safari: 14 min 

• Gonna be honest, I just watched some porn. That's it. 

Thoughts: I think the final screentime amount makes sense if I was on Youtube for 3 hours, on Safari for 14 min, and spent a total of 30 min on Notes, Instagram, and Threads combined. But the amount of time on some of these individual apps just doesn't make sense at all. 

 

 

8/6/2025

Screentime: 4 hours 16 min 

Youtube: 2 hours 

• majority was music

Maps: 46 min 

• needed some help navigating 

Tiktok: 26 min 

• I checked it once between 12am and 1am for 7 min when I couldn't sleep and then for like 19 min between 7pm and 8pm. 

Messages: 17 min 

• I was just texting people back and forth throughout the day.

Instagram 9 min 

• I checked it for 2 min between 1 and 2pm, for 4 min between 3 and 4pm , and for 3 min between 6 and 7 pm. 

 

8/7/2025

Screentime: 3 hours 34 min 

Youtube: 2 hours 

• pretty much all music

Tiktok: 46 min

• I just didn't feel like working today so I had a series of Tiktok breaks lol. 

Settings: 18 min 

• This is all from me using this app to figure out my screentime as I'm journaling. 

Clock: 15 min 

• Used a timer a few times throughout the day

Instagram: 6 min 

• Just checked it once between 8-9 pm 

[soos_mite_ah]

1 Month Check In

On 7/13/2025 at 1:06 PM, soos_mite_ah said:

Basic Goals

1. Continue to track your screentime usage. 
2. Aim for your combined time for TikTok and Instagram to be less than an hour. This is will also limit mindless doomscrolling. 
3. Stop using social media to manage negative emotions, manage overstimulation, or manage restlessness/understimulation. 
4. Limit non music related Youtube use.  Start reading instead. 
5. Buy a dumb phone after the above is under control. 

I have been tracking my phone screentime for about a month now. I think I have seen a gradual decrease where before my average screentime was like 5 hours a day and now it's more like 3.5 to 4 hours a day. I think that's good progress so far.  I think I have also cut down on a lot of problematic social media usuage like explained in #2 and #3. However, I feel like I can do better. Unfortunately, I can't say that I have been reading all that much. 

 

I think I would transition into buying a dumb phone once my screentime dips into the 2.5 to 3 hour range. 

Edited August 8 by soos_mite_ah

[soos_mite_ah]

8/8/2025

Screentime: 3 hours 29 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 21 min 

• mostly music with a couple video essays thrown in. 

Safari: 47 min 

• 20 of those minutes was in the middle of the night. I was on etsy looking at some stuff. Another 20 min was porn. And then you have a few  minutes of sporadic google searches.

Instagram: 32 min 

• 29 of those minutes was between the hours of 5-7pm. The other 3 minutes was I guess me opening the app a couple times before lunch sporadicaly.

Tiktok: 14 min 

• 12 of those minutes was in the middle of the night. I think I also opened it once during my lunch hour

Photos: 13 min 

• I couldn't sleep last night so I was taking screenshots from etsy of some things I want and I was organizing that in my phone. 

 

Thoughts: From the 20 min on Safari, the 12 min on TikTok,  and the 13 min on my photo album, that totals to 45 min on my phone when I should have been sleeping. That's not great lol. But if we take those 45 min out of my total screen time, we get 2 hours and 44 min which is a record low for me on a day where I'm not particularly social.

However, I will say that I have been journalling in private and i watched some pretty lengthy video essays I put in the background as I was working. So, the 2 hours 45 min is not a super accurate description of my total screentime, just my phone. But then again, the screentime that bothers me the most is my phone usuage. Even though I'm on my laptop a lot outside of work, I do think that I have a generally healthy relationship with it. I don't often leave my laptop feeling like shit after being on it for a long time the way I do with my phone. I could do better with my overall screentime but for now, a win is a win lol. 

[soos_mite_ah]

8/9/2025 

Screentime: 3 hours 52 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 12 min 

• Pretty much all music

Hexa Sort: 36 min

• This was between the hours of 8-9pm. I was playing this as I was on the phone with my boyfriend. 

Tiktok: 35 min 

• Spent time on tiktok for 17 min from 12am to 1am because I was having trouble sleeping and then for another 18 min between 11am to 12pm.

Safari: 30 min 

• Spent 13 min during the hours of 12am to 1am and for like a few minutes here and there between 4-6pm.

Maps: 26 min 

• I went to the hair salon and came back home 

Messages: 9 min 

• Responded to a couple messages

Instagram: 9 min 

• spent 6 of those minutes between 11am-12pm and another 3 min between 2-3pm. 

 

Thoughts: I'm proud of not mindlessly scrolling even though I was bored at the hair salon. Not proud of being on the internet at 1 am. 

[soos_mite_ah]

8/10/2025 

Screentime: 4 hours 56 min 

Youtube:  2 hours 6 min 

• Mostly music + showed my boyfriend a couple of video essays. 

Tiktok: 58 min 

• watched it between 1-2am for like 32 min and then a couple different times throughout the day for 13 minutes each
  • The time between 1-2 am was because I woke up from a REALLY bad nightmare and I felt like I needed to watch something funny to not ruminate and then go back to sleep lol. 

Maps: 42 min 

• was running errands and meeting up with people

Safari: 24 min 

• Random searches throughout the day. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you what exactly I was doing. 

Instagram: 15 min 

• Just checked it once around lunch time. 

Messages: 11 min 

• Texted back a few people. Nothing too crazy. 

[soos_mite_ah]

8/11/2025 

Screentime: 4 hours 20 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 55 min 

• Mostly music with a couple video essays

Tiktok: 46 min 

• Most of this was between 9am to 11am. I think this was me dealing with the Monday feeling. 

Maps: 32 min 

• Got dinner at a restaurant

Messages: 30 min 

• Honestly, I'm not going to elaborate on this category because it's pretty straight forward and not for a significant portion of time. I just responded to a few people. 

Hexa Sort: 26 min 

• I was on this app while talking on the phone with a friend. Not super proud of that lol. 

Instagram: 13 min 

• Spent 9 min on this app from 1pm to 2pm and for 4 min between 8pm and 9pm. 

 

8/12/2025 

Screentime: 2 hours 53 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 42 min 

• Pretty much all music 

Instagram: 26 min

• This was between 2 and 5pm  

Hexa Sort: 15 min 

• Played it from 1-2pm for 6 min and for 9 min from 6-7pm

Tiktok: 12 min 

• Checked Tiktok between 10am and 11am for 7 min and checked it for 5 min between 2-3pm.

Tetris: 10 min

• It was between 2-3pm 

Messages: 7 min 

Settings: 10 min 

• This was me checking my screentime so that I can journal lol.

 

Thoughts: I think I was checking Instagram, Tetris, and Tiktok a lot in the afternoon because I was tired during work but work wasn't over yet. I also feel like my screentime was lower today because I was a bit insecure about my screentime from Monday so I made it a point to stay away from my phone even though I did use it for unhealthy purposes. I also have noticed that I tend to use my phone more on Mondays specifically compared to the other days of the week and I think that's me trying to deal with the Monday feeling with the extra dopamine I get from my phone. Speaking of exta dopamine, I also noticed that since putting the limits on my phone between 10pm and 9am that I do have the urge to check my phone and check social media as the first thing when I wake up, even if it's only for 5 min. I think I rely on that dopamine to get my day started. 

Edited August 13 by soos_mite_ah

[soos_mite_ah]

8/13/2025

Screentime: 2 hours 52 min 

Maps: 57 min 

Tiktok: 45 min 

• This was between the times of 10am to 1pm 

Youtube: 34 min 

• Listened to music during work 

Instagram: 8 min 

• This was between 8-9pm 

Settings; 8 min 

• I was journalling about my screentime at 1am 

Messages: 5 min

 

8/14/2025 

Screentime: 3 hours 4 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 7 min 

• Listened to music after work and got caught up with politics in the evening 

Hexa Sort: 35 min 

• played this while talking to my boyfriend for like 25 min because I wanted to do something with my hands and also played this for 10 min before bed

TikTok: 34 min 

• spent 25 min in the morning  and 9 min before bed. 

Safari: 24 min 

• sporadic google searches

Tetris: 8 min 

• played this right before bed

 

8/15/2025 

Screentime: 4 hours 56 min 

Youtube: 3 hours 

• 2 hours of this was me listening to music during work and 1 hour was me watching video essays

Tiktok: 45 min 

• 13 min from 1am to 2 am , 22 min between 10am-12pm, and for 6 min from 4 to 5pm. 

Hexa Sort: 36 min 

• played 7 min during my lunch break and played it for 28 min while I was watching videos

Tetris: 22 min

• played it from 8pm to 9pm 

Instagram: 9 min 

• I just opened the app multiple times throughout the day 

Safari: 8 min 

• very sporadic

 

8/16/2025

Screentime: 2 hours 46 min 

Youtube: 51 min 

• watched videos for 30 min while I was waiting on a restaurant to open

Maps: 35 min 

Tiktok: 32 min 

• This was between 10am to 12pm 

Instagram: 26 min 

• was on Instagram between 2-4pm for 21 min and opened the app a couple times. 

 

Thoughts: I feel like I was on Tiktok a lot this week because I missed being on Tiktok more. It didn't feel compulsive but I did find myself reaching for it more because my job was kind of slow. I will also be honest, while it's good that I'm on my phone less, I have been on my laptop more watching a ton of Youtube videos. I found this new creator and I'm just binging their content and analyzing things. I don't think this is too bad since I leave feeling like I was utilizing my critical thinking skills rather than feeling like a vegetable. 

[soos_mite_ah]

8/17/2025 

Screentime: 2 hours 58 min 

Tiktok: 1 hour 43 min 

• Will do more reflection on this later

Instagram: 45 min 

• Most of this was between 5 and 7 pm. I just didn't have much going on at the time. 

Hexa Sort: 15 min 

• Again, around 5 and 7 pm

Photos: 9 min 

Messages: 9 min 

Safari: 6 min 

 

 

8/18/2025 

Screentime: 5 hours 7 min

Tiktok: 2 hours 36 min 

• Will do more reflection on this later

Youtube: 1 hour 25 min 

• some music and some video essays 

Maps: 33 min 

Safari: 10 min 

Snapchat: 7 min 

Instagram: 3 min

 

 

8/19/2025 

Screentime: 2 hours 50 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 

• pretty much all music

Tiktok: 45 min 

• Opened it at random times between 2 and 8 pm

Hexa Sort: 31 min 

• Played it when work felt kind of slow. 

Safari: 10 min 

Instagram:11 min

• checked it during my lunch hour.

Maps: 8 min 

 

 

8/20/2025 

Screentime: 1 hour 25 min

Messages: 19 min 

• made plans with friends and got into a conversation

Youtube: 16 min 

• listened to some music while cooking. I didn't use my Youtube much all today because my internet was acting up and because work got busy. I feel like that's the reason why my screentime was so low today. 

Instagram: 12 min 

• checked it sporadically between 1 and 5 pm

Tetris: 10 min 

• played with it a little while things were slow at work.

Hexa Sort: 8 min 

• played with it for 4 min during my lunch break and for another 4 min in the evening.

Tiktok: 8 min

• watched it during my lunch break

[soos_mite_ah]

8/21/2025 

Screentime: 3 hours 2 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 8 min 

• watched video essays from 5-6pm

Tetris: 28 min 

• played Tetris for 20 minutes from 5-6pm while watching youtube videos and then for another 8 min before bed. 

Hexa Sort: 27 min 

• played this for 25 min from 5-6pm and another time for like 2 min

Tiktok: 20 min

• watched it between 10 pm-12 am

Maps: 13 min 

Instagram 10 min

• checked it for like 6 min between 10-11am and then for another 4 min after work. 

 

Thoughts: I feel like my screentime would have been lower if I just paid attention to the videos I was watching instead of playing games at the same time. I'm trying to work on that because that's not great for the attention span lol. 

 

8/22/2025

Screentime: 2 hours 20 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 1 min

• Listened to music while working and then watched videos for 20 min before bed.  

Tiktok: 43 min 

• Mainly indulged in it after work as I was waiting on my boyfriend to get here so we can go to our friend's place together. I think I was just filling the space which I don't think it's all that great tbh. 

Instagram: 20 min 

• checked it sporadically throughout the day and spent like 15 min on it at night before bed.

Messages: 5 min 

[soos_mite_ah]

The week of 8/24 to 8/31 

I haven't been logging my screentime lately. Honestly, it's been a mix of being stressed from work, me dreading to check my screentime because of said stress, and not wanting to face the fact that I have fallen off my habits. 

I looked at my screentime from this week and yes, it has been higher than usual. There were a couple of days where I spent I spent more than an hour on Tiktok (includes Tuesday 8/26 where I spent 2 hours and 22 min, and Thusday 8/28 where I spent 1 hour 13 min). I did spend more time on Youtube than I would like watching videos and while I'm looking at my habits from a birds eye view and it doesn't look super bad, I do know I felt like shit this week. I know that I was using my phone as a way to disassociate and cope with stress. I know that I was up at night on the internet when I wasn't supposed to be. I know I haven't been holding myself as accountable as I should. And I know my screentime was higher than usual. 

I guess me doing this post is me trying to take accountability. It sucks that I have fallen off track but that's inevitable and part of the journey. I'm going to do my best to get back up in this week. I was also dreading to check my screentime but I guess after checking and then doing this post, I do feel like while I did get off track, I didn't go completely off the rails so that feels reassuring knowing that it isn't as bad as I was making it out in my head.  

Edited September 1 by soos_mite_ah

[soos_mite_ah]

Dealing with Existential Dread 

I know I mentioned in a previous post that I was going to reflect on my Tiktok usage being higher than normal in 8/17 and 8/18. I remember on those two days, I was dealing with existential dread in relation to politics and society. I remember feeling this compulsion to reach from my phone and scroll as a way to feel less crazy and to connect with people who were seeing the same things as I was. It didn't feel exactly like doomscrolling.

Rather than feeling drained, anxious, and overstimulated after seeing all of the awful stuff happening as one does when doomscrolling, I found myself feeling comforted and relieved in a sense because I think social media gives me a sort of outlet and confirmation for my feelings. It feels nice to see people share the same concerns as you and even though social media encourages a more parasocial dynamic, I feel like I am participating in a conversation regarding what's going on in the discourse politically by listenting to peoples takes so that I can piece together my own understanding. And that feels good because I feel like some of these conversations aren't things that I can often have with the people around me. Don't get me wrong, there is a time and place for this, but I do feel like the times and the places both feel like they are shrinking. I sure as hell cannot talk about most political matters at work. I can't always talk about it with my friends, not because they aren't empathetic to my view points but rather they're stressed with their own lives to where they don't want to hear me rant and piece my thoughts together, and because sometimes the settings that we hang out in aren't conducive to these discussions. Like I'm not going to on an anti capitalist rant with my normie friends in the middle of a party even if my normie friends can generally point out the issue with capitalism and are in favor of raising the minimum wage. 

I am, however, fortunate to have a couple people in my life who I can talk to about these types of things. But I feel like there is still a gap that's there in terms of my needs so as a result I resort to Tiktok instead. I'm still trying to figure out to what extent this is normal and healthy versus to what extent this is dysfunctional. I think it's normal and healthy to seek out social support and sometimes use the internet for that. I don't think the internet is inherently dysfunctional in fostering social connections. The first thought I get of the internet being a healthy outlet is when I think of a lot of gay kids in rural areas who struggle to find community and understanding for their sexuality and interests in real life so then they turn to Tumblr and Discord instead. I guess the problem is when the internet becomes your sole source of social validatation and socialization? Because I don't think getting wrapped up in echo chambers because of the algorithm gods is a healthy way to live either.

I also don't think that it's always good to rely on external sources of validation and reassurance. I think there is a time and place for it because mirroring one another to a certain extent how we socially learn and grow as well as empathize with one another and self reflect. But I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't want to fall into the validation trap in the way that a lot of red pill guys fall into the world of alpha males where they are observing some very valid observations in society, such as how it's fucked up how men place their self worth on the number of women they slept with and how it's fucked up that some women will shame them for crying. However, instead of taking these valid observations in a more neutral way to critique partiarchy and how women can also be perpetrators of patriarchy, they then double down and get self depricating on their sexual experience (often lack there of) and then they hate women and paint us all to be liars and backstabbers. And I know these guys fall down a rabbit hole because they're in a psychologically vulnerable state. I don't think that I've lost my marbles just yet lol but I do think that I am mildly depressed with what's happening in the world and I do feel unsettled by it. I think that's perfectly valid and it's not wrong to find community online but I don't want my sentiments to be exploited by the algorithms to where I fall down a weird rabbit hole without realizing it. 

So where do we go from here as it relates to my screentime? I think on the days that I have existential dread, I can give myself more leeway in terms of my social media usage since I think for me personally it's coming from a generally healthy place. At the same time, I do think it's important to have some safe guards in place. Firstly, I think it's more important to prioritize longer form media in Youtube rather than short form content on TikTok so that there are more nuanced takes and so that I'm not getitng sucked into hyper specific algorithms. Secondly, I think it's important to also lean on irl social support (aka touch grass). I'm already doing that but I do think that I can be better about that. And thirdly, check in with myself every half and hour or so in order to differentiate when I'm using social media to process existential dread or when I'm using it to double down on it and doom scroll. 

[soos_mite_ah]

Screentime Logs

I know that I haven't been logging my screen time on a daily basis like I did before. I think much of it is because the process of logging my time every day started to feel a bit redundant and repetitive. I think overall, my screentime is much healthier than when I first started my journal. I still check my screentime throughout the day in order to keep myself accountible so me not doing the daily logs is not indicative of my lack of accountibility. 

I think going forward, I just need to keep my social media usage in check. I have dealt with the whole thing about me being on my phone at night or early in the morning. I'm usually using Youtube in a healthy way. I'm not dependent on my phone on basic functioning such as noting things down, navigation, etc. My screentime is also not out of control. It's usually in the 4-2 hour range but considering a chunk of that is probably me listening to music, I think I'm doing well for myself. 

I'm not necessarily struggling with social media but I do notice that I tend to whip it out still when I'm overstimulated / stressed which is something I want to improve on. I don't really do it because I'm bored of I need to decompress in the way that I would in the past. But I do also tend to go to social media when I feel like I need to process existential dread. I think I generally have a healthy way of navigating that tbh. 

I'm also going to revist some goals that I set for myself about a couple months ago. I didn't really carefully think out this list rather I just jotted some initial thoughts down so as a result, I never saw this list as something that is set in stone, rather it's just a guideline.

On 7/13/2025 at 1:06 PM, soos_mite_ah said:

Basic Goals

1. Continue to track your screentime usage. I'm not going to do this in the journal anymore rather I'm just gonna do it by myself throughout the day / week. 
2. Aim for your combined time for TikTok and Instagram to be less than an hour. This is will also limit mindless doomscrolling. I have been good about not mindlessly doomscrolling. I think generally my combined time is less than an hour but I have usually one or two days a week where it exceeds that. And when it does, it's usually not by more than 20 min. 
3. Stop using social media to manage negative emotions, manage overstimulation, or manage restlessness/understimulation. I sometimes still cope with overstimulation with social media but I have done a significantly better job at addressing this than where I was 2 months ago. 
4. Limit non music related Youtube use.  Start reading instead.  I want to focus on this more. 
5. Buy a dumb phone after the above is under control.  Yup, this is still a future goal. 

In other words, I think #2 and #3 are things that I want to keep in mind but not necessarily focus on. I think I'm like 75% there when it comes to crossing off #2 and #3.  #4 is something that I want to be more intentional about going forward. I hope to transition into #5 by December 2025.