Blog Entry #2

Describe your smartphone profile. How do you primarily use your smartphone? For what purposes? Estimate the amount of time, on average, you spend on your phone each day. Also estimate the number of times you check your phone each day.

I primarily use my smartphone to stay in touch with my friends. I talk to them on social media apps or through text/FaceTime. I am constantly talking to a lot of my friends over Snapchat, since they are all at different schools, and we have a big group chat on there that we all use pretty frequently. I also use my phone for my own creativity, I like to take photos (my minor is photography) so I spend some time taking photos of good moments I find myself in, I’ll edit some of them, and end up posting them on my Instagram.

My phone itself tracks my phone usage and how often I check it, but I’m going to estimate before I check it. Per day, I’d say I spend on average 5 hours on my phone. I think I check my phone about 150 times a day.

I checked last week’s average(Sep 6–13), and it said I have a screen time of 7 hours and 1 minute, and that I checked my phone 1,451 times the whole week, with that Friday being my most pickups at 247. That’s crazy I didn’t even realize how much I check my phone, even if it’s just the time or for nothing at all, I need to cut down on that one. And I’m also aware I should cut back on my screen time, I’m working on that.