It usually starts with just a few minutes. You pick up your phone to check a notification, reply to a message, or quickly browse your favorite social media platform. Before you know it, thirty minutes have passed. Sometimes it's an hour. Occasionally, it's much more. Most people don't intentionally spend large portions of their day on social media. Yet millions find themselves wondering where their time went. The truth is that social media doesn't just consume our attention—it often consumes far more of our time than we realize. The "Just Five Minutes" Trap One of the reasons social media is so effective at capturing our attention is that it feels harmless. After all, what's wrong with checking a few posts or watching a couple of short videos? The problem isn't a single visit. It's the accumulation of many small visits throughout the day. Five minutes in the morning. Ten minutes during lunch. A few more minutes between tasks. Another session before...