Listening to the radio news this morning whilst on my way to my favourite local cafe for a quality caffeine hit and satisfying feed of smashed avocado, I heard something that freaked me out a little. A recent study, by communications regulator Ofcom, has found that on average  ‘British adult now spends more time using media or communications (eight hours, 41 minutes a day) than they do sleeping (eight hours, 21 minutes)! Hearing this I thought to myself, ‘omg, how can people be so obsessed with their phones, laptops and tablets that they’re on them more than they sleep?’ However, in actually thinking and writing about this, is what scares me even more is the fact that on some nights of the week, this is even true for me! I use my phone to text and call family and friends, as an alarm, to use instagram and Facebook, as a stopwatch and music player at the gym, my laptop for uni assignments and note taking, to watch movies and tv episodes and the family iPad for quick and easy access to search the web for things like train timetables and local events and festivals. So, really once its put into prospective, using these media gadgets slightly more than or equal to one’s times spent sleeping is really just living life.

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