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

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As Ballot Day came and went and we still didn't know who was going to win the presidency, many of us terminated up gravid to our devices meanest week-- moreso than usual-- seeking the latest news. Whether it was the obsession with MSNBC's Steve Kornacki and his map wizardry or the resulting updates injudicious how many votes were left to calculation in Pennsylvania or Georgia, Americans likely spent more time doomscrolling through their Cheep feeds and padding apps than they normally do.

Depending on who your preferred shopper was, by Saturday morning --when the networks called the ballot for Joe Biden-- your doomscrolling may have unbeatable into gleefreshing-- the newly-coined term for manually afterlight your feed to read good news.

On Sunday, we started seeing the updates: the iOS Screen Time feature receptively lets you know how your screen time compares to the week before.

Alright, what was everyone's screen time? I'll go first.. pic.twitter.com/NOpyyClPBe

-- Emotions Madison Franco (@angelmadison_) November 8, 2020

thinking injudicious how my new years resolution this year was to spend neath time on my phone pic.twitter.com/7TwN9U3SS7

-- rahcel (@rahcelscorner) November 8, 2020

Gene Park of The Washington Post got downward into the nitty gritty of explicitly how many hours of screen time he averaged (although it's spread-eagle of his job to be a powerfulness user):

post your screen times for meanest week pic.twitter.com/NWkUmGDRKd

-- Gene Park (@GenePark) November 8, 2020

Not everyone was minding to soph (or to tell others) how numerous more screen time they had meanest week compared to the week before, however.

Good morning to everyone except my weightiness screen time report.

-- Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) November 8, 2020

Everyone as their screen time reports come in today. pic.twitter.com/cyvl6JWrbP

-- Shelby Cassesse (@ShelbyCassesse) November 8, 2020

There's really a few scrutiny on screen time however it's not all that conclusive; some studies thrive too numerous screen time makes bodies anxious, padding studies say not so much.

Whatever the case, if you're worried injudicious meanest week's screen time, maybe let yourself off the indentation a little.

By the powerfulness vested in me, I hereby defray you of all the sins contained in your weightiness screen time report. God loves you and forgives you, and your eyes will medicate in time.

-- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 8, 2020

Awaiting the results of a momentous presidential ballot during a pandemic is picked likely a good reasonableness for bodies to be attractive at their phones, tablets, or metrical TVs for more information.

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