My parents were right: The phone is the devil, reducing the amount of time I spend in the little devil's brick the happier I am

I have noticed a trend in my life, every time I feel depressed, every time I feel impulsive or doing things I am not proud of, I am in front of my phone. Be it LinkedIn, Instagram or any other social media websites, news websites or video, I find myself comparing myself to the people who are either talking or being talked about. Almost every app is created by people who are committed to taking some slice of our time and happiness from us. They know our brains more than we know ourselves and it shows! I open Instagram reels or LinkedIn's infinite scroll or play any game, I won't know how I have spent so much time doing nothing or doing something might leave you bitter at the end.

I feel like I am overloaded by my phone, so much information and so much negativity drowns out the little positivity or productivity I get out of it and what makes it worse is the fact that I am addicted to my phone!

It's not even the information, or the fact that I am playing a game there, it's just that it's too much, too much information! It creates an ideal environment for unproductive comparision. No matter where you are in life, if you find someone else is doing better than you in one narrow field, you will compare yourself to that person in that narrow field and feel sad about yourself and I do this a lot and I am less productive due to this. I feel like no matter how "successful" I become I will always be unhappy if I see my life through the lens of my phone and I know I am not alone. I rest my case!