screen time
SKREEN TYM
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the amount of time a person spends looking at a digital screen — smartphone, tablet, computer, or television — whether for work, entertainment, social connection, or information; screen time has become a central metric in public health and parenting discourse as researchers investigate associations between high screen use and outcomes including sleep disruption, attention difficulties, anxiety, and reduced physical activity, particularly in children and adolescents; built-in screen time monitoring features on smartphones reflect both parental concern and growing awareness of platform design's role in maximising time-on-device; debates about screen time are complicated by the enormous heterogeneity of screen activities, with video chatting with grandparents and doom-scrolling news feeds placing very different demands on attention and wellbeing
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