New Study Shows Youth Plugged In Most of the Day

An anonymous reader writes "The amount of time youngsters are spending on the web has ballooned to exceed the average adult's full working week, according to a new study. A few years ago, the same researchers thought that teens and tweens were consuming about as much media as possible in the hours available. But now they've have found a way to pack in even more. Young people now devote an average of seven hours and 38 minutes to daily media use, or about 53 hours a week according to Kaiser Family Foundation findings released today."

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For those too lazy

[Misanthrope]

To click through and download the PDF
TV 4:29
Music/Audio 2:31
Computer 1:29
Video Games 1:13
Print :38
Movies :25

With a 29% multitasking cut, so from 10:45 total it comes down to 7:38

Not really sure this is all that surprising to me, it's hard for me to feel alarmed over the print and music portions of the time.

Re:For those too lazy

[w0mprat]

Someone should do a study into the kind of people who participate in surveys to see if they are naturally inclined over-represented in potentially headline grabbing statistics. But I suspect the result would be biased.