I think the best take-home from the article is simply that your screen time is a problem only if it&#x27;s distracting you from the things you&#x27;d rather be doing.<p>If you&#x27;re spending the majority of your Internet time researching a specific topic, or interacting with others online about that topic, or something you&#x27;re specifically interested in, then there&#x27;s not really a problem. As you say, the alternative is spending time offline focused on something else, and neither online nor offline is inherently bad.<p>It&#x27;s only bad if you&#x27;re online and you want to be e.g. watching a Coursera video or having a language lesson over Skype, etc., and the incoming Facebook chat messages, tweets and Slack notifications are constantly pulling away from your intended purpose.