Social media
Social media is built to keep you scrolling, and it is very good at it. Short videos, endless feeds and notifications are designed around rewards that keep you coming back, which is why "just a minute" so often becomes forty.
These articles look at how that happens and what actually helps: why YouTube Shorts and Reels are so hard to put down, how small checks add up to hours of lost time, and simple habits that bring your screen time down without quitting altogether. There are also step-by-step guides to blocking Shorts, Reels and feeds while keeping the parts of each site you still need.
