My Top Five

After keeping track of what apps I use for 24 hours, my top five most used apps have been Instagram, Spotify, Twitter, Home/Lock screen and the American Eagle App. Besides using the app Moment I also decided to look into the battery usage break down on my IPhone. The data was pretty much the same; the only thing that surprised me was the fact that I’ve apparently used 41% of my battery on Instagram and only 13% on Spotify. I wasn’t expecting to have that much of a difference between how much time/battery I spend on my apps. Since I pretty much rotate between all of them. It’s also worth mentioning that apps like Snapchat and Facebook/Messenger are not on my top five most used apps because since I got a new phone last week, I decided not to download Facebook because of the crazy amount of hours I used spend on it. I mean, I still log in once or twice during the day but only on my laptop. So at least that limits the time I spend on Facebook itself. Now Snapchat is a difference story, I did download that app on my new phone but since that “upgrade” I pretty much stopped using it and posting on it as much as I did before. Now that I think about it, I post things on Instagram’s story more, which is a good Snapchat substitution since it pretty much does the same.

Andrew-Gee made very important points such as “they’re making us worse at being alone and worse at being together”. To start off because nowadays even when I’m by myself I always find a way to distract myself from what I’m doing. Something as simple as watching Netflix can be difficult for the fact that I end up spending at least ¼ of the time on my phone. Relationships are being affected by phones because of the lack of attention we pay to that person we are talking to. I guess we just try to multi-task way too much.

Newton focus more on “Time well spent” which seems to have it’s goals set on something that will actually benefit us in the long run; however, the fact that Facebook launched a campaign to pretty much respond to this movement makes me believe that they’re actually worried that it will hurt their numbers.

So at the end of the day, I’m well aware I have an “addiction” to have and use my phone all the time even if that means I spend a good portion of my day using it.