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'Gentle parenting' my smartphone addiction
An app called Opal finally succeeded at curbing my time spent on social media through a combination of mild friction, encouragement, and guilt.
Opal has several million monthly active users, and recently signed its first institutional agreement, to provide the prep school Harvard-Westlake, in Los Angeles, with a customized app-blocking dashboard. Thus, I can look in my Opal app and see that my daily screen time is down by more than thirty-five per cent since I started using it; I just unlocked the “diligent gem” to mark a hundred hours unwasted. I take solace in the fact that my mind feels clearer after a full workday without scrolling social media, but an added bonus is that once the block ends I can mainline all the good posts that I missed.
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