One Sec: Finally down with screen time

Some things don’t change the world. But they make our everyday lives a little more pleasant. Or they are simply “nice to have”. Or even both. The ZEIT-ONLINE series “ nice and useful ” is about these gadgets and apps.

Lights off, sleep, but then being sucked into a TikTok maelstrom of stunt cats and Friends snippets for an hour: That’s the digital reality of 2024. Yes, of course, a lot of screen time really isn’t that bad. You can spend your time on screens very sensibly, memorizing three Wikipedia pages a day, for example. And whether we all have digital dementia is also rather questionable. But I doubt that many people feel really good after 45 minutes in the end-of-the-world Elon Musk Twitter algorithm. In any case, I don’t feel good afterwards.

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