Today’s Solutions: April 20, 2026

Do you think you spend too much time on Facebook? If you answered yes, you’re probably right. The social media giant revealed last year that its 1.8 billion users spend an average 50 minutes on its services (including Instagram). That’s more than one sixteenth of your time awake, or one eighth of your workday. And that number is climbing, up 25 percent from 40 minutes a day just two years ago. If you’d like to reclaim

Print this article
More of Today's Solutions

A 58-day protest campaign just convinced Etsy to ban fur

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade did not simply write a letter. For 58 days, CAFT ran ...

Read More

Why your wandering mind is exactly what meditation is for

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Most people who try meditation for the first time expect their mind to go quiet. Instead, it does ...

Read More

Five steps for making your clothes last as long as possible

The clothes we wear can make us feel confident and help us express our inner selves. Unfortunately, our culture of fast fashion produces these ...

Read More

Here’s why grapes are good for your gut

The health benefits of grapes Grapes are the perfect, portable healthy snack to eat. Enclosed in their bite-size shells, they are a widely popular ...

Read More