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In Chronically Online, Elite Daily asks people to get real about their phone habits, tracking their screen time over the course of a week. This week, BDG editorial intern Anna Traver takes us through a typical week in her life working as an intern and shares the apps she spent the most time on and how often she mindlessly scrolled.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ahhh, post-grad life. The bittersweet feeling of graduating college \u2014 an accomplishment that took you the past four years to achieve \u2014 mixed with the stressful agony of searching for your next opportunity<\/a>. I moved back home after graduation in May, which has its perks: saving on rent and groceries, spending more time with family, and picking up the occasional serving shifts at the restaurant where I worked in high school. But it also provides a lot of extra free time, which unfortunately, does not help decrease the amount of time I mindlessly spend on my phone<\/a>, a habit that I am \u2014 or, let\u2019s face it, all of us are \u2014 trying to break.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve spent my summer so far working as an editorial intern<\/a> for BDG remotely three to four days a week and the rest of the week stalking LinkedIn and applying for jobs. Oh, and, of course, spending way too much time on social media.<\/p>\n

I never really took the time before to track my screen time \u2014 honestly, I didn\u2019t want to know the results. I always had the mentality that since I work hard, I deserve to have a little free time to go on my phone, right? What I didn\u2019t realize was just how much of that free time I actually spend staring at a tiny screen. <\/p>\n

Occupation: <\/strong>Editorial Intern, BDG<\/p>\n

Age: <\/strong>22<\/p>\n

Location: <\/strong>Detroit, Michigan<\/p>\n

Weekly Average (June 11-June 17): <\/strong>5 hours, 23 minutes<\/p>\n

Day 1: Photos, Photos, & More Photos Of The Eras Tour<\/h2>\n

Since I graduated, I\u2019ve been staying up later than usual. I don\u2019t need to be up early for class anymore, so I can sleep in a little later. However, with staying up late comes the inevitable hours on social media. <\/p>\n

Most of my \u201csocial\u201d screen time, which was three hours and four minutes on Sunday, was spent around midnight (Saturday night into Sunday). I spent this time going back and forth between TikTok and Instagram, mindlessly scrolling. <\/strong>Surprisingly, I used Instagram a tad more. I attended Taylor Swift\u2019s Eras Tour the night before in Detroit, so as exhausted as I was, I also felt full of energy because of how amazing the show was. After finally getting to sleep, I woke up Sunday morning around 10 a.m. Before getting out of bed, I scrolled through my camera roll to look at the blurry and far-away photos I tried to take of Taylor and chose my favorite pictures of myself and my friends to post. I took an embarrassing amount of photos, so this took way longer than it should have.<\/p>\n

Then, of course, I had to send my favorites to my best friends to get their opinion on which one I should post \u2014 as we all do, right? This shot my Messages app to the No. 1 spot, as my biggest flaw is my indecisiveness. I act as if I didn\u2019t already have my favorite and that if they don\u2019t choose it, I won\u2019t be disappointed. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis one is my favorite! You look so good!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you! Are you sure? Do my hands look weird?\u201d<\/p>\n

*Repeat this convo a handful more times*<\/p>\n

I went to lunch with family, which involved pulling out my camera roll again to show them all the photos and videos of the concert. After getting home, I went right back into bed and scrolled through Instagram and TikTok in between snoozing.<\/p>\n

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