How many hours a day are most people spending on their phones? How many times are they picking them up?

It's hard to get a firm answer in how many hours with the best statistics I found range between four and six hours a day that people are spending on their phones.

If you want to go for the middle number there, five hours a day, it adds up to about 75 days a year. It's really a shocking amount.

Yeah, I wonder what the comparison is,

because that's presumably across a bunch of different age groups. So if you were to go under 30,

I would guess that that number goes up. I would also guess that the hours of sleep would go down under that. I certainly know Luke, who is a good friend of mine and

my tour manager, he regularly manages to double his sleep time with his screen time. So he's 12

hours a day on phone, six hours of sleep. Oh, that direction. I thought you were going the other

healthier direction. Oh, that's, oh, that's not good. Does he need an intervention?

He's a club promoter. He's like patient zero for phone use. All of us are.

So anybody that used to run nightlight stuff, we just have, we basically were hardwired into WhatsApp.

And it's very, very difficult to get rid of that. Maybe this is me

just, you know, creating an excuse for myself. But yeah, if you grew up being some sort of

club promoter type person, you have maybe the worst neural networks possible for phone use. It's not good. That's a separate category. So you have like

18 to 29 year olds, 29 to 40, and then you have like club managers, which is correct. That's good.

It's a different species technically. Yes. Yes. I hadn't thought about that. I'm already learning.

That's it. And have we got, I was going to say, when you look at different cohorts, do boys or men use it more than women? Do what have we got about teenagers, young people? Does this tend to sort of fluctuate over time? Yeah, I mean, the generational thing is definitely true. So everyone is spending a lot of time on their phones, but younger people, which the terms are gen alpha and gen Z, you know, basically up to

28 or 30 or so, definitely higher than Gen X or let alone boomers. But with that said,

I do think that older people get off the hook too easily when it comes to screen time,

because I think most of us have probably had an experience when you're with someone in their

70s and they just have their phone out usually on Facebook, like all the time. And I recently heard a great word for that,

which is screen your citizen. So, oh, screenier citizen. Very good. Yeah, yeah. Very good. Yeah.

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