If your screen time was up during election week, you’re not alone

As Election Day got here and went and we nonetheless didn’t know who was going to win the presidency, many people ended up glued to our units final week— moreso than regular— searching for the most recent information. Whether it was the obsession with MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki and his map wizardry or the fixed updates about what number of votes had been left to depend in Pennsylvania or Georgia, Americans probably spent extra time doomscrolling by means of their Twitter feeds and different apps than they usually do.

Depending on who your most popular candidate was, by Saturday morning —when the networks referred to as the election for Joe Biden— your doomscrolling might have changed into gleefreshing— the newly-coined time period for manually updating your feed to learn excellent news.

On Sunday, we began seeing the updates: the iOS Screen Time function helpfully lets you understand how your screen time compares to the week earlier than.

Gene Park of The Washington Post bought down into the nitty gritty of precisely what number of hours of screen time he averaged (though it’s type of his job to be an influence consumer):

Not everybody was to be taught (or to inform others) how rather more screen time that they had final week in comparison with the week earlier than, nonetheless.

There’s a variety of analysis on screen time however it’s not all that conclusive; some research recommend an excessive amount of screen time makes individuals anxious, different research say not a lot.

Whatever the case, if you’re apprehensive about final week’s screen time, possibly let your self off the hook slightly.

Awaiting the outcomes of a momentous presidential election during a pandemic might be a very good purpose for individuals to be their telephones, tablets, and even TVs for extra info.