{"id":234323,"date":"2026-03-31T02:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/fragmented-phone-use-not-total-screen-time-is-the-main-driver-of-information-overload-study-finds"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:36:09","slug":"fragmented-phone-use-not-total-screen-time-is-the-main-driver-of-information-overload-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/fragmented-phone-use-not-total-screen-time-is-the-main-driver-of-information-overload-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Fragmented phone use\u2014not total screen time\u2014is the main driver of information overload, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fragmented-phone-use-not-total-screen-time-is-the-main-driver-of-information-overload-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid hot discussion on screen time, social media use and the impact of digital devices on our well-being, a seven-month study from Aalto University in Finland sheds new light on what overwhelms users the most\u2014and the results aren\u2019t what you might think.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScreen time does matter, but the heaviest users aren\u2019t the most overloaded,\u201d says doctoral researcher Henrik Lassila. \u201cThose who feel most overwhelmed are the ones who return to their phone again and again for brief moments and then put it down shortly after.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The seven-month study followed the digital behavior of nearly 300 adults in Germany across smartphones and computers. Participants completed repeated surveys about information overload, while all apps and websites used were logged, creating a rich longitudinal dataset of real world device use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid hot discussion on screen time, social media use and the impact of digital devices on our well-being, a seven-month study from Aalto University in Finland sheds new light on what overwhelms users the most\u2014and the results aren\u2019t what you might think. \u201cScreen time does matter, but the heaviest users aren\u2019t the most overloaded,\u201d says [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}