What is a healthy amount of time to spend online? Aleks meets 16 year old Anya. She spends hours watching soap-cutting videos online and Ramnik her dad is trying to control her time. Professor Sonia Livingtonstone argues that Screen Time has become a panic word and offers a different approach.

How to control your use of Social Media without the ever present FOMO? Anya has removed herself from social media for an entire month as part of a digital detox. She’s experiencing FOMO - the Fear of Missing Out - and is feeling cut off from her friends at school.

While FOMO feels like a modern problem, it’s existed for centuries. Neuroscientist Ash Ranpura tells us how the teenage brain is particularly sensitive to the risk of social exclusion. So how can you maintain the balance between solitude and keep up with your friends online? Behaviour change expert Nir Eyal shares his tips.

How to avoid feelings of jealousy when using social media. It’s easy to compare yourself with what you see online. Social media invites us to swim in the lives of other people and drown in too much information about their best selves. But Professor Ethan Kross, a psychologist who specialises in how social media has changed human interaction has a solution.

How to stay safe online. We’re focusing on pornography and cyberbullying. Both are a fact of life on the internet. The question is, how can you protect yourself from it?

How to spot lies and scams. Aleks meets Mills Kelly, the history professor behind the deliberate fake story of the Last American Pirate. It became an online sensation, fooling historians and journalists and proving just how easy it is to be fooled by misinformation online. But what can you do about it? Caroline Knorr from Common Sense Media shares her tips.

How to combine your use of technology with healthy sleep time habits. What are blue light waves from our phones really doing to our sleep patterns? How worried should we be? And how can we establish healthy sleep time habits? Plus we hear from Anya as she completes her month-long absence from social media.

Aleks Krotoski catches up with Anya, now 17 years old, a year after her month off of social media, about what behaviours stuck and what didn't, and how we all might achieve a better screen/life balance. She makes some surprising discoveries about what the latest science tells us about screen time, why all screen time is not the same, and what teenagers can teach adults about navigating screens. And she talks with an artist about simple yet vital ways we can restore our most precious resource - attention - and engage more deeply with the places and communities we inhabit.