The average American scrolls 86 miles a year. Not metaphorically. Thumb to glass. That is more than three marathons. Oddly, it is six miles more than we walk. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/forget-walking-americans-scroll-86-miles-a-year-on-phones-and-the-number-keeps-rising-are-you-guilty-too/articleshow/123337096.cms
Arizona tops the list. 8 hours and 50 minutes of screen time daily. 115.37 miles of scrolling each year. Distance from Phoenix to Tucson. https://tollfreeforwarding.com/blog/scroll-miles-the-states-logging-the-longest-phone-journeys/
Washington logs 108 miles. Kentucky hits 105. Even the slowest states push 90. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/staggering-number-hours-yorkers-spend-143333930.html
Americans check their phones 58 times a day. Half of those at work. Half within three minutes of the last. It is not multitasking. It is a loop.
Screen time averages 6 hours and 35 minutes daily. That is 2,403 hours a year. Productivity takes a 40 percent hit, according to experts. https://tollfreeforwarding.com/blog/scroll-miles-the-states-logging-the-longest-phone-journeys/
The neurological toll is unmeasured. The economic cost is uncounted. The distance we scroll now exceeds the distance we walk.
Thumbs run laps. Brains sit in traffic. The feed never stops.