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I've Started a Bad Habit
It all starts with a quick check of the time.
Then...click
Sale?
Click
I should pin this outfit. Click
Pin
Pin
Pin
Back to email
"Oh the new slice email is out!" I think to myself.
Click
One slice, two slice, click...click...click
Oh great idea for school
Open notes
Type
Oh that reminds me
Back to email
Brain racing
4:15am
Ugh...I feel too awake
But then 4:30
Yawn
Yawn 4:45
Eyes close...zzzzz
5:35 alarm
I shouldn't have checked the time at 4am.
Maybe my phone shouldn't charge beside me each night.
Perhaps across the room is best?
I, too, am familiar with the social media dance you mention! How quickly it sucks us in!!!
ReplyDeleteI think you need to put it in another room! That little screen sucks us in so easily!
ReplyDeleteOh boy! I am with you!!! I have done exactly the same thing. My phone is my alarm, so it's always next to my bed. Sigh...
ReplyDeleteFor me it's not social media, but books that make me lose the sense of time. Although in March, my alarm wakes me up pretty early.
ReplyDeleteHa! I get it! I do it! I, too, use my phone as my alarm. I have to keep it next to my bed as I have aging parents that I need to be available to at all times. I've not done "this particular dance" in the middle of the night, but do enjoy the "snooze" feature and often check email when I should be out of bed vs. "snooze" options.
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I love the pace of the click and the pin. Is it this instant-ness that keeps us hooked?
ReplyDeleteBoy isn't this the truth. It is amazing how time gets away from you when you are on these things! Once click turns into many clicks and then the time has clicked away!
ReplyDeleteThis is me, but instead, it's me at night, before I head to bed. We have a "no screens in the bedroom" rule, which is as much for me as for my kids!
ReplyDeleteIsn't this the truth? I love the poetry format! I try to keep my phone out of my bedroom but that just hasn't been happening lately. And oh man-when I wake up in the middle of the night people, I'm reading your blogs and tweets! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI think that you described this perfectly! I also suffer from this habit and it's a hard one to break!
ReplyDeleteOh wow! I couldn't do this that late at night, but I do have a bad habit of staying up to late surfing the internet. I do it for too long and then realize I never worked on what I set out to do. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteThis whole tecky life can become addicting! Some nights I have a stiff neck from looking down at my iPad for so long! Great slice!
ReplyDeleteI giggled!
ReplyDeleteSo many understand!
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