For today’s Sunday Poser, Sadje wants to know…
How much time do you give to blogging or other online activities? Do you find it hard to manage the time you spend online?
Two things to consider: (1) I’m retired. (2) I blog exclusively from my iPhone. I turn my iPhone on when I wake up first thing each morning and turn it off when I go to sleep (not to bed, but to sleep) each night. Between waking up and going to sleep, my iPhone is always with me and is always on.
There is an app on my iPhone called “Screentime.” According to my recent Screetime stats, I spend between eight to ten hours a day actively using my iPhone. Of that, between 45 to 55% is spent on Jetpack/WordPress. Of course, that time includes not just writing posts, but responding to comments on my posts and reading and commenting on other bloggers’ posts.
There’s another app on my iPhone called “Battery,” and it measures active and idle screen time. Over the past ten days I averaged nine hours a day of active screen time and about three hours of idle screen time. Jetpack/WordPress accounted for a low of around 36% of that active screen time to a high of 57%.
So, between “Sceentime” and “Battery,” the two apps that keep track of how I’m using my iPhone, blogging is the predominant online activity.
Because I’m retired, I do have the time to spend on Jetpack/WordPress. So, no, I don’t find it hard to manage the time I spend online.