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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.
It depends on the definition of 'on the internet'.
Your average person is connected, and broadcasting information about their life, to the internet whether they realise it or not. Maybe technical people on Slashdot are aware of that, or take countermeasures to prevent it, but the vast majority of people are communicatating personal data with other networked machines via a personally identifiable device throughout the day (and often night).
Taking into account smart TVs, wearables, alexa equivalents, networked vehicles, net-connected power monitoring, phones etc, measuring 'on the internet' as equivalent to screen-time seems false right now.