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Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
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Re: Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
#12Re: Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
#13This was already true for people I know who were watching TV all day since the 70s
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#14Well, personally I don't sit staring at a screen, I watch movies, play games, talk to people, build stuff and learn new things. You wouldn't say reading a book is "staring at paper" would you?
Do books do the same damage to your eyes as screens?
Can you provide evidence of where screens cause damage to eyes? My ophthalmologist shared with me that there is general irritation but we haven't been able to prove that screen times degrade eye sight over time.
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#15I used to spend a lot of time in book/magazine/paper reading. Now I read off screens mostly. 34 years of my life spent reading would be time well spent regardless of the medium.
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#16Well, personally I don't sit staring at a screen, I watch movies, play games, talk to people, build stuff and learn new things. You wouldn't say reading a book is "staring at paper" would you?
Do books do the same damage to your eyes as screens?
Do screens do damage to your eyes? The article lists some side effects, but I wouldn't consider that any sort of eye damage, and it's certainly not permanent.
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#17Well, personally I don't sit staring at a screen, I watch movies, play games, talk to people, build stuff and learn new things. You wouldn't say reading a book is "staring at paper" would you?
Do books do the same damage to your eyes as screens?
Hey, do you have specific examples of the damage you're concerned about?
I've been reading up about this a lot as it is something that concerns me, but so far most of what I've says that longterm damage is mitigated by taking regular eye breaks (ie, starting at something 20+ feet away every 20 minutes for 20 seconds) & getting enough sleep (giving the eyes time to properly rest). Are these mitigation strategies insufficient?
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#18This article is about the effects of eye strain, not the overall mental health of looking at content on a screen.
With that in mind, what is it about a screen (emitted light) that is worse than outdoors reflect light? One item I can think of, is that looking at something with reflected natural light, the iris contracts based on the total amount of light hitting it. Whereas a screen may be brighter than the ambient light in the room, causing more of a point source of light to hit the retinas that would normally happen (which is why I've always found it more comfortable to watch TV with some other light on in the room vs. the room in total darkness).
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#19Important thing is, people don't just stare at screen. Many of them achieve smth else too.
For example, last week I've probably spent 50 hours with people front different parts of the word on screen.
Helping them turn waste plastic into 3D printing filament:
https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...
Re: Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
#20Average adult will spend 34 years with a miracle portal into infinite knowledge and possibility.
And will use that infinite potential to binge watch Friends for the 11th time.