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You Spend Nearly a Whole Day Each Week On the Internet (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: Since 2000, our time spent online each week has steadily increased, rising from 9.4 hours to 23.6 hours -- nearly an entire day, according to a recent report by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future. The internet has become an integral component of our home lives as well, with time spent rising more than 400 percent over that period from 3.3 hours to 17.6 hours each week, according to the report, which surveys more than 2,000 people across the U.S. each year. The center's 15th annual Digital Future Report illustrates the internet's dramatic evolution since 2000 from a secondary medium to an indispensable component of our daily lives -- always on and always with us. It also comes as many fear for the future of the unlimited internet we have largely taken for granted over the past two decades. The report also found that the internet has had a dramatic impact on how we get our news. News consumption for all ages went from a print-to-online ratio of 85-15 in 2001 to a near even 51-49 in 2016.
Stop using these clickbait formats on Slashdot. This is not a polite request, you're just making yourselves look like a cheap tabloid rag.
Lol a day per week spent online? Casuals... Try a week per week
I am semi-retired and despite the fact that I now live in Vietnam, the internet (now spelled with a small "i" I think), is THE only way I could possibly live outside of one of the great centers of learning in the world. I can (kinda) keep up with my previous field (3D computer graphics), my hobbies (3D printing, scuba diving, technology) and my new field (BioTech, Genetics).
It is not perfect, it is not easy to meet people without traveling great distances (a company where I am a board member on required me to travel literally halfway around the world to Baltimore for a meeting). Still, it makes living in a developing country possible for someone like me because I have fiber to my apartment! Sure beats paying an insane amount for rent in somewhere like NYC or silicon valley and I avoid the colossal rip-off in America they call the healthcare industry (if you live more than half the year outside the country you are exempt from the rules). 17.9% of GDP on medical expenses? More than twice the cost of the next closest country? Americans really are stupid sheep, (and I am one!).
Finally, and I should admit this, it allows me to live somewhere where I am much better off than the average (financially). Many studies have shown that it isn't absolute wealth that makes you feel better, it's RELATIVE. Hence the Japanese fable:
A genie came and told a farmer that he could have anything he wanted; with the condition that his neighbors would get twice as much.
The (supposedly wise) farmer replied: "Destroy half of my crops"
I'm not proud of this but I am (a) "wise babo". (Bonus points if you know what "babo" means)
Nope. I am an addict. I even eat in front of internet.
TFA is sparse on detail. Given the rise in popularity of music streaming, Netflix, and online shopping, I would think a LOT of the time "on the internet" is what in prior decades would have been spent watching TV, listening to radio, playing albums on various media, or in the local mall. And if they're basing their figures on total backbone traffic then the numbers will be skewed even more by things like the IoT.
Of course, I can also believe that the amount of time spent watching TV and listening to music has increased as a result of the internet's reach and ubiquity. Then there's the whole social media thing - probably a WAY bigger time sink than dumb telephones ever were.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
Only a day a week doesn't sound right.
I have no other life, after all!
Well I say: You spend one day week posting stupid articles to slashdot
We'll make great pets
You gotta pump those numbers up those are rookie numbers - matthew mcconaughey wolf of wall street
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Not a request? /. only exists because a vulture noticed, it could flog its corpse for ad money a little longer.
Or else what?
We all know it has been technically dead for about a decade. Death is assumed. Nobody even blinks if it shuts down tomorrow.
Sorry.
(Ancient-times user here, who gave up after his 5 digit and 6 digit accounts became inaccessble due to lost DNS domains and hence password recoverability.)
I spend about 20 minutes a day to get caught up on a few things (hobbies, news), otherwise only get important notifications from family members should anything happen and that's it.
I used to spend a lot of time, but it was not productive, so I scaled it back. I found that I would mostly get caught up in some fluff or trivia that wouldn't affect my life for the better. At the end of the day I wouldn't have accomplished much or furthered myself in any way. Now it's not like I don't have fun, but now my fun is more active and engaging rather than passive and mind numbing.
Sometimes I will look up a word in a dictionary or fact on wikipedia or a wikihow to help me with an activity or repair should I find the need and that's the only time I will go out of my way.
Twinstiq, game news
Just don't tell my boss.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Much better now.
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Deleting twitter fb and LinkedIn on my phone reduced my screen time a lot and I feel better too. For what itâ(TM)s worth I think the tech is great so long as it works for you and not vice versa
You gotta pump those numbers up those are rookie numbers!
What does that even mean?
And nearly an entire hour fucking: That's not much for a week of satisfying innate desire and strengthening a relationship. We spend that much time, per day, on another innate desire; eating. Contrasting that, we spend nearly 5 days of a week, working and sleeping.
The internet is just a big pipe for lots of stuff ... music? Web pages? Streaming video? Email? Social media?
So 1/7 of a day per day, for most of my reading and video and music consumption and remote communication? Not too bad ...
I spend nearly a day every day using the internet. That's my job now.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
a - "Wow... 23.6 hours per week; that's just unbelievable, ya know?"
b - "Yeah, no kidding. That should totally be per day."
a - "What?"
b - "What?"
Define "on the internet"...
My home PC is connected to an always-on DSL.
My work PC is connected to an always-on optical connection[1].
Am I on the internet 48 hours per day (2 PCs constantly connected)?
My work PC is on from I arrive to I go home. My home PC is on from I come home until I go to bed. Am I on the internet those 14 hours?
Am I on the internet, when Firefox is showing documentation while I work in Visual Studio? How about when I use Firefox to test (doing web development)?
How about when I'm at home, Firefox is open and actively downloading a GB of data?
How about my tablet? It's on 24 hours a day.
How about my home web server? Also on 24 hours a day.
[1] For the pendants, in both cases through switches and routers.
6 out of 7 days wasted. I can do better.
I spend 1 day on the internet every day. :D If you're only getting one day a week, you're doing something wrong, or you have a real life.
Wrong. I spend almost two whole days on the internet every day.
Those are rookie numbers, but let's not discuss this any further.
I would expect a whole day each week off the internet would much closer to reality for most of the /. readers and that 50 or more hours is work related.
In a completely unrelated study, scientists calculated people spend over 23 hours a week, and this is a scientific term, "polishing the ol' bayonet."
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
8 Hours a day, 5 days a week.
8*5 = 40
/ If my employer is reading this, that was just a joke.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
I reject such negativity. Barring error, I believe people will choose correctly for themselves, and a few selected counter-examples do not justify total population control, euphemisticly called "regulation".
We'll have to ask the original poster, but I would presume that the capital's city university hospital could be decently staffed and equipped and/or there might be some up-class private hospital used by the elite in the capital city.
These would probably seem very expensive to local people, but would seem affordable and still offering decent quality of service to someone with a US pay in the wallet.
If that's not the case, he might still be able to travel to another country where that's the case.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
I spend probably eight "whole days" each week on the Internet.
Some of us have real jobs.
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The Internet used to be a metaphor for the great profusion of the world's knowledge instantly at your fingertips.
These days, "on the Internet"—in the context of a hapless, hang-wringing headline—can only mean one thing: disregulated, dopaminic discursion loops, aka social media, YouTube "fail" videos, and "whatever happened to that slutty celebrity one-shot-wonder from the 1970s with the fat ass" click bait (news flash: you'll never believe).
On the Internet as in on drugs.
Nevertheless, if one spends twenty-hours-per-week consuming DNN machine-learning lectures on YouTube as delivered by world-famous practitioners, no harm done in averaging those hours into the mix, too, using the special math of drug-addiction epidemiology.
Because, you know, those two shots of coffee I drink every morning have me "on drugs" about 80 hours per week, not even counting alcohol.
What used to be at your fingertips is now under your nose.
Wrong! I spend a whole week every day on the web!
Fuck off with your shit clickbait headlines, thanks.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Rookie numbers.
More like a whole week each day.
Then again, work in IT.