What I chose to write about for my data collection project is how much time I spend on my phone daily for the past week. I am usually on my phone all the time but I never really noticed how many hours I spend on my phone daily. For the past week I have been collecting data from the screen time app on my phone and seeing what applications I use most of my time using. I use my phone wherever I go, whether it’s to school, or before and after practice baseball practice, when I’m home and even when I’m out with my friends. When I find something interesting I pretty much spend a couple hours just watching and searching for that kind of stuff on youtube, instagram or on Google. I guess you can say my phone takes up a lot of my free time.
Looking back at the data I collected, I figured out that I spend more time than I thought on my phone. For last week’s average screen time I spent 6 hours and 40 minutes on my phone but my total screen time for that whole week was 46 hours and 40 minutes. I spent 16 hours and 46 minutes of that time on Social networking ( 9h 33m snapchat, 7h 52m instagram), 8 hours and 53 minutes on Entertainment ( Youtube and Netflix ), and lastly the rest of that time was used on creativity apps 6 hours and 23 minutes. Another thing that I found out was most of my screen time is from when I get home from school because that is when I choose to procrastinate my homework and just talk to my friends and watch movies, shows and videos since I don’t feel like doing my homework. I thought this was very Interesting because I guess I never really notice the amount of time I spend on my phone and using social media.
If I showed my data to someone without them knowing anything about me I think that they would make the assumption that I’m on my phone literally all the time and that I can be a person that is probably bored for most of the day from just viewing my daily and weekly average. An educated guess that could be made based on this data is that people would think that I’m glued to my phone. I can see how that guess could be accurate. If I saw the same numbers on someone elses phone I would think that all they do all day is use their phone.
After analyzing all that data I have realized that I should not spend as much time on my phone as I do. I would probably save the battery a lot more for when I need it instead for my phone dying on me. Instead of being on my phone so much I could focus more on sports and school work.
I agree so much with you that we could be spending our time on other important things other than our phones, I studied my behavior for another class and found out I use my phone 8 hours a day on average. There is so much one can get done during that time, something that might help you is keeping your phone somewhere out of sight so you won’t think about it.
I agree with how you said that you didn’t realize how much time you spent in your phone until you looked it up. In reality no one does since we don’t bother to check but I know if I were to, it’d show me I’ve been on it for lots of hours. Which some might think I’m glued to the thing. If you want to try and cut down on the amount of time you’re on your phone you can pick up some hobbies like drawing or if anything set time limits on how much you can use an app per week or day.
I agree with the point that you made. I collected the same data as well and it surprised me a lot. If people were to see my numbers they would probably say I am very addicted to my phone but at the same time, I think technology has just been implemented to substitute certain things in our daily lives.
I can relate to this because most time and school when I’m bored or not doing anything I pull out my phone to text a friend or watch a video. Which all way lead to my phone being dead before I can get home.