{"id":3866,"date":"2026-10-04T13:24:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2026-10-04T13:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:24:58","slug":"project-2-jack-arey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/project-2-jack-arey\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 2 &#8211; Jack Arey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3866 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FOMO.jpg'><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FOMO.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FOMO.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FOMO-120x300.jpg 120w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FOMO-410x1024.jpg 410w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FOMO-614x1536.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>One of the main strategies from this project I tried applying to my own life was checking in on my screen time, and I found it to be very successful in the short time I&#8217;ve been using it. I often feel that time becomes a lot more fluid when I&#8217;m just scrolling on my phone or something. I don&#8217;t feel aware of how much time is passing or how much time I&#8217;ve spent doing something. Usually it feels like I&#8217;ve just glanced at my phone, but in reality five minutes have passed. All of that is to say that becoming aware of my screen time has helped me to reduce it a lot. Even just in the 4-5 days that I&#8217;ve been employing this strategy my screentime has dropped 10-20%. I&#8217;ve also set up screentime limits or at least reminders on my most overused apps so that I&#8217;ll have a physical reminder of time passing and be able to make a conscious choice to stop. Already I&#8217;ve had that happen a couple of times and chosen to stop whatever activity I was doing because of it and redirected my energies to something more productive.<\/p>\n<p>Something else I found really interesting in my research was the concept of Phubbing, or snubbing someone by looking at your phone. I tried to look for this behavior in myself and as I became more aware of it I found that I didn&#8217;t engage in the behavior very often, but when I did it was always triggered by a notification from my phone. Since that discovery I&#8217;ve become more intentional about ignoring notifications when I get them in a social setting, which has helped, but I also want to set up a Do Not Disturb setting that I can just flip on when I&#8217;m in a situation like that. I&#8217;ve realized by paying more attention to notifications and their influence that I have definitely become trained to be sensitive to them. I experience a very instinctual urge to check my phone when I hear one and I want to try to reset that behavior in myself. At the same time though this is difficult to do because there are often consequences for missing notifications. I don&#8217;t want to upset my friends by missing their messages or making them think that I&#8217;m ignoring them, but I also don&#8217;t want to be tethered to my phone. I&#8217;m still working out exactly what that balance should be for myself but this project has definitely made me more aware of my own issues and what possible solutions I have.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are my sources as links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-underline text-strikethrough-none\" href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC11871965\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC11871965\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpguide.org\/mental-health\/wellbeing\/social-media-and-mental-health\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-underline text-strikethrough-none\">https:\/\/www.helpguide.org\/mental-health\/wellbeing\/social-media-and-mental-health<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2011\/08\/15\/americans-and-their-cell-phones\/\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-underline text-strikethrough-none\">https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2011\/08\/15\/americans-and-their-cell-phones\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapsychiatry\/fullarticle\/2749480\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-underline text-strikethrough-none\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapsychiatry\/fullarticle\/2749480<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main strategies from this project I tried applying to my own life was checking in on my screen time, and I found it to be very successful in the short time I&#8217;ve been using it. 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