The COVID-19 pandemic has catalysed what may soon become a permanent digital transition in the domains of work, education, medicine, and leisure. This transition has also precipitated a spike in concern regarding our digital well-being. Prominent lobbying groups, such as the Center for Humane Technology (CHT), have responded to this concern. In April 2020, the CHT has offered a set of ‘Digital Well-Being Guidelines during the COVID-19 Pandemic.’ These guidelines offer a rule-based approach to digital well-being, one which aims to mitigate the effects of moving much of our lives online. The CHT’s guidelines follow much recent interest in digital well-being in the last decade. Ethicists of technology have recently argued that character-based strategies and redesigning of online architecture have the potential to promote the digital well-being of online technology users. In this article, I evaluate (1) the CHT’s rule-based approach, comparing it with (2) character-based strategies and (3) approaches to redesigning online architecture. I argue that all these approaches have some merit, but that each needs to contribute to an integrated approach to digital well-being in order to surmount the challenges of a post-COVID world in which we may well spend much of our lives online.

COVID-19 大流行催生了可能很快成为工作、教育、医学和休闲领域的永久数字化转型。这种转变也引发了人们对我们数字福祉的担忧。著名的游说团体，例如人道技术中心 (CHT)，已经对这一担忧做出了回应。2020 年 4 月，CHT 提供了一套“COVID-19 大流行期间的数字健康指南”。这些指南提供了一种基于规则的数字福祉方法，旨在减轻将我们的大部分生活转移到网上的影响。CHT 的指导方针遵循了过去十年对数字福祉的浓厚兴趣。技术伦理学家最近认为，基于字符的策略和在线架构的重新设计有可能促进在线技术用户的数字福祉。在本文中，我评估了 (1) CHT 基于规则的方法，将其与 (2) 基于字符的策略和 (3) 重新设计在线架构的方法进行了比较。我认为所有这些方法都有一些优点，但每个方法都需要为数字福祉的综合方法做出贡献，以克服后 COVID 世界的挑战，在这个世界中，我们很可能将大部分时间都花在网上。