 well you know i just went on vacation for a week and i took all the social media apps off my phone and first of all i read two books and maybe six or seven magazines but also my screen time went down by a lot more than i would care to tell you so that's what we're talking about this power and one recent survey found the average american spends four-and-a-half hours a day on their smartphone and americans in generation z are over six hours a day on average