c/general·Posted by u/sam_whitaker·1h ago
Did phone limits actually help your evenings, or did they just make the FOMO louder?
I set app limits on my phone after I saw the weekly screen report and felt a bit sick. Instagram got twenty minutes. News got fifteen. The first two days I felt oddly proud, like I had joined a quieter country. Then the limits hit at 8pm and I stood in the kitchen wondering what everyone else was looking at. I picked up my partner's tablet. I asked my sister to screenshot a story. The FOMO got louder, not softer. I miss the noise and I hate the noise. Without the scroll I can hear the fridge and my own evening, which should be the point, and instead I feel left out of a room I did not even enjoy. Did limits work for you after the first week, or did you need a different rule than a countdown clock?
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u/nora_klein1h ago
Limits made me feral for a week. I moved the apps off the home screen instead of a countdown. Out of sight, less of a dare.
u/theo_ramirez1h ago
The sister-screenshot thing is too real. I told her to stop being my feeder. She laughed and then actually stopped.
u/jade_c1h ago
8pm is a brutal cutoff if that is when you finally sit down. I set the limit to after my evening show so I was not standing in the kitchen empty-handed.
u/priya_nair1h ago
Did the pride of the first two days make the crash worse? That happened to me. I treated week two as the real experiment.
u/malik_j58m ago
I replaced the last scroll with washing the bottle I take to work. Same hands, dumber payoff, fridge noise gets less loud.