Hello and welcome to Adelting and the fourth episode of let's talk about a broadening of Adelting where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school. This is almost like seminars on life where my

audience that's you get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily

discuss over lunch with their friends or feel like they don't have anyone to talk about, whatever it may be.

To get involved, follow me on Instagram at Unoni where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every

Wednesday we dig deep. This week let's talk about social media

addiction. The submission read social media addiction I definitely have it and I hate

this habit now that I'm a mom S S-O-S- How to Deal.

I was weirdly pleasantly surprised by the open admissions from everyone about their extensive social media use.

I feel that means we've turned a corner in some ways.

I think that there was the time when we were too embarrassed to admit that we overused social media or even

just went on our phones or had a high screen time in general.

There was a lot of shaming and people sort of boasting about rarely using their

phones. I think this was at like the height of those kind of maybe it was when

Apple first launched the screen time counter thing.

And then I don't know if it was like the pandemic or when the shift started, but definitely I think

it's kind of universal that we all have just noticed gradually that we're on our phones more.

There was a time when it was really like not cool and not okay to go on your phone in a public space,

whereas now I think if you're in a restaurant it's not unusual to see a couple on their

phones at dinner and it's something that I always actively try not to do but it is something that's just more and more commonplace. I think there's something good in the fact that we're all going look I'm on my phone too much.

How do I deal with that rather than it being this like secretive shameful thing?

Because then we're never really going to be able to attack it head on. I'm going to read some of the shorter

submissions so someone said it's scary how much it's a part of my life it feels so automatic and

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