Why Your Brain Can’t Handle Unlimited Screen Time

Addiction to screens has been fairly devastating as we gravitate more and more to staying home and other such restrictions in the global pandemic. While many of us can be effective and efficient when it comes to work capacity, we are finding it harder to get restful sleep. It’s a whole other ball of wax when it comes to the next generation – children have been incredibly and adversely impacted when it comes to the nearly unlimited screen time that they have been subjected to recently. In fact, during the pandemic, the screen time of adolescents more than doubled to a whopping 7.7 hours a day.

Is there any hope for us to reverse this course? Indeed, there is – setting proper internet usage and internet filtering can be a game changer in these tough times.

Learn more about how to keep your family safe from the potential dangers of the internet in the visual deep dive below, courtesy of Canopy:

Source: Canopy.us

Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace is the Founder and President of NowSourcing, an industry leading content marketing agency that makes the world’s ideas simple, visual, and influential. Brian is the go-to resource for visual storytelling in the crypto / blockchain market since 2015, representing numerous cryptocurrency-related publications, and others getting press and funding in the space. Brian has been named a Google Small Business Advisor for 2016-present and joined the SXSW Advisory Board in 2019-present.

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