Put more years in your life

January 19, 2026

Would you like more years in your life?

Would you like more life in your years?

Australians are spending an incredible 41 hours a week online a week. That’s the equivalent of an entire working week and over a third of their waking hours. Of that time, close to 20 hours a week is spent on social media alone.1

Imagine what you could do with that time if you tried!

So, if you’d like to spend more time socialising, relaxing, engaging with family or friends, exercising, playing sport, cooking, hiking, walking, reading, boating, gardening, enjoying art, music or dance, creating, contemplating, sleeping etc – maybe you should take steps to reclaim your time.

And here’s how to do it.

OFF FEBRUARY is encouraging people to delete social media apps from their phones for the month of February. In Australia, that could free up approximately 160 hours of people’s lives.

OFF FEBRUARY is a global movement that invites us all to take this one easy step for just one month to improve the quality of our lives.

Founder of OFF FEBRUARY and social media expert Diego Hidalgo says that social media is cannibalising our lives by taking time away from more productive activities. He says activities that involve deep thinking, physical action, creativity and sleeping are positively correlated with well-being, whereas social media is negatively correlated with well-being.

‘OFF February is a massive global invitation to reduce drastically our social media use during one month,’ says Hidalgo. ‘As for Dry January, we hope that this will contribute to reducing the time they spend on social media the rest of the year.’

You can hear Diego Hidalgo talk about OFF FEBRUARY with Lyn McLean in the link below.

EMR Australia is proudly supporting OFF FEBRUARY and has suggestions about how people can participate, accessible from our website (see link).

Don’t let social media apps take over your life. Accept the OFF FEBRUARY challenge: reclaim your time and improve your quality of life.

  1. Digital 2026 (Australia)

     

  2. See Diego Hidalgo in conversation with Lyn McLean here.

     

  3. See more about the global OFF FEBRUARY movement here.

     

  4. See more about OFF FEBURARY AUSTRALIA here.

New 3-field meter

Take a look at our new ENV RD-10 AU meter, which does the job of 3 meters, measuring electric fields, magnetic fields and radiofrequency (wireless) radiation.

This tri-meter is a handy and economical tool that helps keep you and your family safe from electromagnetic pollution.

You can use it to measure the fields in your home, car, workplace, school and your local environment and take steps to reduce your exposure where appropriate.

You can see more here.

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