Easy wins: delete your social media apps and claw back precious days of your life

Phone notifications are, by design, hard to resist. Stopping them at the source is a better solution

There's something about that red dot. The ping. That little shudder of your phone. All those tiny, quiet gestures which together, form a cacophony, making your phone screech: Something happened. Look at me! Right now! And then again! And sometime later! But still soon! Really soon! OK? OK?"

Australians in 2020 spent, on average, an hour and 46 minutes a day on social media. That, according to my rudimentary calculations, is equivalent to more than 26 days a year on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, et al. This, I'd suggest, is too many days.