Colm O'Regan: Social media is basically Big eTobacco

I use social media so I can kid myself I’m doing something about trying to sell tickets and also to be occasionally funny online, but the negatives were outweighing the positives

I downloaded an app called Freedom and PAID GOOD MONEY for it to lock me out of social media.

Screen time. I thought I had it licked. The last phone I had used to measure the screentime and admonish me for overdoing it. I had an allotted time of social media and then I was gently urged to put it away. It seemed like it was working.

Two things happened: 1) Like any addict, my resolve weakened. I just started lying to my sponsor, messing with the settings. And 2). Because Apple itself is addicted to selling us new phones and had built in obsolescence -a fancy word for complete shiteness- into the battery, I needed a new phone.