Nine hours, 21 minutes.
It’s the most embarrassing data I’ve ever shared with the public and it came during a talk to several hundred students in a university chapel message on media literacy: 9:21 … my average screen time per day for a week in March. It wasn’t typical (mostly) — there was a spring break in there, college basketball streaming, and this and that … but … but …
Nevertheless, the number stayed, because it was real and presented the magnitude of the problem I was talking about. It’s not just those “crazy kids” with too much screen time. This is a “we” problem and until we all get real about our own media time, we won’t see how it’s changing us and our society.
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