This is what the world would be like without Facebook, Insta, and WhatsApp

Three hours and eight minutes per day. Weekly total: 22 hours and three minutes. Social media: 13 hours and 28 minutes. Just without jokes: this is me.

To be precise: this is me and my phone. My goodness, oh my, how terrible. First of all: why does my iPhone keep track of these statistics? I don't want to know. Secondly: why do I keep looking at these statistics, even though I don't want to know? Because I mindlessly scroll through everything, that's the answer.

Is it even possible that I use my phone for three hours and eight minutes per dày? Let's say I sleep for eight hours (I don't with twins, but just for convenience). Let's say you work eight hours a day and are also behind a screen. That leaves eight hours of free time. For me, that means only five free hours without a screen, in which I eat, play and cuddle with my children, exercise, talk and well, live. Sorry, but this can't be good. Not only am I ashamed of the facts, but I also suddenly long back to the good old days without a smartphone. And without that miserable Facebook and Instagram that without me realizing it just suck 14 hours a week out of me.

And I think the world would have looked something like this, without socials and that miserable messaging 24/7 everywhere and always, as we know it now:

1. We would hardly take a photo. Or well, we would take a photo, but just one, so we can remember the fun moment. Not because we want to look as good as possible on The Gram in 18 different skirts and dresses.

2. We shop less because we don't take photos.

3. We talk to the neighbor again. Because: no 18 group chats bothering you. Suddenly you have time left.

4. We read books, magazines, and newspapers again. And hang posters of handsome actors in our rooms. Yes, do you remember how that was? The Insta-feed from the ’90s is back.

5. You call your phone again. To your mother.

6. You see your best friends often and all those vague half-acquaintances just not, because there is no contact to maintain.

7. You get more work done in a day because: zero distractions.

8. You have less stress. And more vacation. Because you are more in the moment, on that white beach, under that palm tree. Because you are there and nowhere else. Now you are there and you are also at work, with your sad friend and with your complaining mother.

9. You had more hobbies, like crafting or drawing or sculpting. Now everyone's hobby is watching Stories of half strangers. How sad.

I'm going to craft a little statue tonight, throw that phone very, very far away in another room and next week please just 11 hours as a weekly total. That should be doable, right? Right? Please don't send me a message, I won't respond anymore.