Over the course of a day, Americans spend six hours and 40 minutes on average looking at a screen, with the average person spending two hours and 40 minutes on social media alone.
“It starts with a message from your friend or checking your email, and then you slide into TikTok, and it’s like 30 minutes gone out of your day, eventually, without even realizing,” Prafull Sharma, a 2023 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate and co-founder of Spool, told The Daily Cardinal. “I built [Spool] as a way to fight back against that and reclaim my focus.”