Here are 27 ways we spend our time on social media and some good alternatives.
Cats, rants and envy scrolling: 27 time-sucking online rabbit holes – and how to avoid them
But let’s get granular: what are the worst ways to be in thrall to your small shiny rectangle and its big brother, the larger electronic rectangle? I asked about people’s most irresistible, life-consuming, pointless and occasionally poisonous internet rabbit holes. Then I tried to work out what they (and I) could do instead.

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