I find myself (mis)using my smartphone a lot more when I‘m down or exhausted. It’s a refuge, and it’s not a good one, just like your random drug. Browsing aroun

I find myself (mis)using my smartphone a lot more when I‘m down or exhausted. It’s a refuge, and it’s not a good one, just like your random drug. Browsing around past midnight leaves me feeling empty and my sleep quality suffers a lot. Fight with my wife? Go browsing. Kids are little devils and I can’t escape physically? Yep, check the feeds. If I‘m feeling well (which is the case most of the time, thankfully), I can go the whole day without opening FB, or even the mail client. Apart from the social isolation that smartphones bring with them, I‘m also worried about: - How the constant suckling at the dopamine teat messes up our grasp of what is important and what isn‘t - and how past-sundown-browsing can destroy your mood [1]. Those screens are comparatively dim for a light source, but they are also the only ones you point directly at your retina for hours on time. And I BET they will find even more dire consequences of unbalanced blue light exposure (vs full spectrum, ie including infrared light which has a restorative effect on retinal cells). [1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5299389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5299389/