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Are screens bad or are the primary ideas about screen time based on when screens solely offered content to consume without interaction?
"Screen are bad and you'll become blind!"
-said mom who now scrolls WeChat all the time
Looking a mere 30cm in front of you for extended periods of time isn't great either, along with a lack of excercise. Not unique to computers, but there are multiple reasons which combined can make prolonged PC or phone usage unhealthy.
-- Someone who spends a lot of time in front of a computer.
My solution is that my screen is 20 feet away and battery powered, and I keep the batteries on a separate floor, so every 2 hours, I have to get up and do the stairs at the very minimum. But I also tend to walk around or do my life while using the screen, since it also floats around and follows me wherever I go. And when not using a floating screen, I just visit other random worlds that tend to involve alot of exercise, like people trying to murder me but I have swords, or magic, or guns... or maybe a world where the objective is dancing... but usually the murder worlds.
Been doing VR for 10 years now, only the most recent headset (Quest 3) has been a full-day headset, before that, most headsets were 6-10 hours at most even fully modded. Looking forward to future headsets too, now that they don't have to come from meta anymore to be good. It's crazy how much firing most of their workforce and replacing them with AI has tanked their software and firmware dev. They used to have it all(enough that it was worth buying their stuff despite meaning you have to buy 'their' stuff), but then they threw away what they had, first the software and firmware, and then at a critical point of time they decided to throw away hardware too.
Looking forward mostly to Steam Frame at the moment. And of course with my lifestyle, the number 1 expansion port upgrade I'll be getting is high-res color passthrough. Glad I get to pick it rather than having to use whatever is good enough/cheap enough for everyone. I would easily sink 200$ into that feature alone if someone makes one worth it. Rather than whatever 20 dollar 'pretty good' option would have made sense to include en masse by default.
That's very fair. Not necessarily the screen itself or the mental effects, but the associated activities. I commented a bit blindly because I'm locked into a screentime lifestyle. Can't do my job without 8 hours at a screen and the cheapest hobbies tend to be on another screen. I forget what I've had to incorporate into my habits to fight that sedentarianism. I'm still not great at avoiding it.
Personally, I think both are pretty bad, but yeah, spending extended periods of time in front of a computer screen isn't very healthy. They've already stated in another comment about the physical aspects of it with being 30 centimeters from the screen.
But there's also the social development aspect of it. At the end of the day, humans are social creatures, regardless if you are an introvert or extrovert. You still need some amount of socialization. Many people that are habitually on computers have converted that socialization over to some digital platform like Discord(guilty as charged), Or have moved to a text based socialization. While this may meet our needs as human beings for socialization, It disconnects us from our emotions, and hinders our ability to have direct conversation.
The consequences of tone doesn't matter much online, which makes us more apt to respond or be blunt for discussion. The lack of video or a face also weakens the ability to be able to analyze body language, to be able to properly analyze the intent of the other parties. These attributes are crucial for communication.
Things such as going in for job interview are now digitalozed (or in some fields discarded all together). Instances such as calling someone to verify an appointment or to ask questions are being replaced with text-based communications or no communication needed portals. We are currently seeing this among the millennials and Gen Z's, but even the older Gen A's are starting to show signs of a weaker ability to have face-to-face communication and be able to interpret body language. I've never liked talking on the phone in the first place, but my sister, who's younger than me, avoids it like the plague. It's to the point where if the thing that she's doing doesn't have an online portal or an ability to text, she isn't going to do it. Because she's not comfortable with having phone calls outside of her social circle, and she isn't comfortable going and meeting someone to ask in person. When I've talked to her about it, she's stated that she's not different than most of her friend group, and that that's just how it is now.
It's scary.