Shock! Horror! Do you know how much time you spend on your phone?

Writer Adrienne Matei spends two hours and 20 minutes a day on her phone - which might seem fine, until you realize it amounts to 35 full days a year. What's your number?

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Before beginning to write this article, I spent 20 minutes doing, if I'm honest, sort of nothing on my phone. Prior to that, I checked emails, read the news and browsed social media in bed. My phone is usually within arm's reach, which seems to me fairly typical of everyone, old and young, who includes a phone in their essential trifecta of belongings, alongside their keys and wallet.

I spend an average of two hours and 20 minutes a day on my phone, according to my iPhone's Screen Time function. As someone who writes about internet ephemera for a living, I feel justified in my habit of filter-feeding through social media like a megamouth shark. Yet it's somewhat more difficult to be nonchalant when I realize my daily habits amount to me spending 35 days a year, or over five (five!) years of my remaining life, on my phone.