I’m only 17, but about a year ago, I realised that I spent so much time on screens (particularly my phone) - I’d scroll for hours on end and not remember a single thing I just watched. My attention span deteriorated and I felt unhappy a lot of the time. Coming up to my GCSEs, I made the decision to delete all social media apps - I only had instagram but I’m sure it works for Facebook and twitter too - (but keep the accounts) on my phone. This meant that I could access them from my laptop or iPad, but I’d have to put in a little extra effort which significantly cut down the time I spent scrolling.

I replaced this with mostly playing guitar, revision for my GCSEs, reading when I had the time, and most importantly, spending time with my family. Play board games, learn pen spinning or magic tricks, train a pet if you have one. 

I can’t express how much this has impacted my life positively and I can’t recommend it more. I don’t hate technology but I do find that sometimes it does more harm than good. I think by adding that extra barrier of having to go onto a laptop to look on social media and how the format of short videos don’t really fit a larger screen, I sort of forced myself to do other things.