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Next Year, People Will Spend More Time Online Than They Will Watching TV. That's a First. (recode.net)
Rani Molla, writing for Recode: It's finally happening: Next year, people around the world will spend more time online than they do watching TV, according to new data from measurement company Zenith. In 2019, people are expected to spend an average of 170.6 minutes each day on online activities like watching videos on YouTube, sharing photos on Facebook and shopping on Amazon. They'll spend slightly less time -- 170.3 minutes -- watching TV. The global transition from TV to internet as the main entertainment medium was a long time coming, but it also happened faster than expected. Last year, Zenith predicted that TV would still be more popular in 2019 but has since revised its estimates.
Not sure that "cord cutters" are properly tracked by these metrics.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
People already do that...Cell phones?
Multitasking, look it up.
If TV hadn't been sucking more and more each season since around the 2007 WGA strike, I'd happily continue to watch TV.
,,, since 2002. So nothing really new here.
Since much of TV is owned by large internet providers I don't see much of a need to separate "online" from "tv".
Iâ(TM)ve not increased my tech time. Iâ(TM)ve cut my tv to near zero because thereâ(TM)s no good shows
"Not if we have anything to do with it!" - Ajit Pai.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
>> Next Year, People Will Spend More Time Online Than They Will Watching TV. That's a First.
People Will Finally Spend More Time Online Than Watching TV in 2019: Study
FTFY - no charge. (Flipping millennial copywriters - yeesh.)
Don't Worry. Just because people aren't watching TV, doesn't mean they're doing anything useful or god forbid actually learning something. They've just replaced one passive, intellectually hollow activity for another. Soap operas and sitcoms have been replaced by social media and Amazon shopping.
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How do you even count this?
Is watching Amazon video on the PC "TV"? On your phone?
Old sitcoms on YouTube?
People will spend more time watching TV online using their former TV as a 2nd monitor.
170 + 170 = 340; that's almost six hours a day of "screen time". No wonder unemployment is at an all time low.
I define "watching TV" as staring at a screen, getting stupider. People are just staring at different screens. They're still getting just as stupid, though.
I don't respond to AC's.
People watch their favorite programs on netflix or amazon is that counted as tv watching or being online?
People can watch live channels of both tv and radio online. When someone watches streaming tv on their phone
does that count being online , watching tv, or being on your phone?
Same (in)activity, different venue. Is anybody really surprised by this? People are very well trained to be consumers, not producers. For most people, producing something (let alone something of value) is WORK not leisure.
I refuse to own one of these so-called "computers". I also don't own a "television set". My abacus and record player work just fine for me, thank you!
If the repeal of Net Neutrality sticks and things go as poorly as they potentially could, people may be spending more time doing anything but using the Internet -- if they even bother paying for it anymore. If ISPs start mucking up the works enough people might just get frustrated enough to throw up their hands and just walk away from it.
I switched over to a 400MB down/50MB up unlimited Internet-only connection ($62.50 month) and SlingTV 40 channels/50HR DVR ($30 month) and couldn't be happier. I can record multiple things at once and watch on two devices at once. My daughter can watch on the large TV and I can watch on my laptop.
From what it says, the average person is wasting about 20 hours a week mindlessly consuming content. That's about a month and a half of wasted time by the end of the year...
the 2008 crash (and lack of a real recovery) did. There's less money to go around, meaning less money going into new shows and less risk taking on new ideas.
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I don't think 'how long you spend online' is a valid measurement anymore. We no longer use dial-up to connect to the internet. With phones and tablets, home automation and so-on we are 'online' 24x7.
I count watching Netflix, Hulu and others as "watching TV" because it's the same passive entertainment no matter which delivery method you use to get it.
But when talking about YouTube, things can get a lot more complicated. Are you passively watching a playlist of videos or are you searching for information and watching tutorials where the ability to pause, rewind and ask questions to the author of the video is important?
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Probably'll never be a thing, but one can hope.
'Being Online' is way too broad a descriptor for spending leisure time.
I do not see any reason to differentiate between watching standard cable / broadcast TV and watching a movie, tv show, or other video content via a Netflix / Hulu / YouTube / whatever.
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I've been spending more time online than watching TV for over 2 decades. I remember dialing up a BBS that had shell account access to the internet and running an IRC client on the internet before there was home internet dialup in my neck of the woods. It was more fun and interesting than almost anything on TV. My kids hated it when I took over the TV anyway, they didn't like watching NOVA.
I've been doing that for the last 30 years. I don't think I've watched television once in the last 3 years.
I already watch all my TV online!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Doesn't something have to actually happen before it can become news? I know there's a big race to be first to report but gheesh!
People watch their favorite programs on netflix or amazon is that counted as tv watching or being online?
I consider 'TV' to mean 'force fed commercials and advertising'. So by that definition Netflix is being online. It'a small but important difference since TV, like Facebook and Google, exist primarily for advertising purposes. Netflix exists primarily for entertainment (and to a lesser extent learning since they have a few good documentaries). This is an important distinction because once you get used to a 'no-ad' format of entertainment, you learn quickly not to tolerate it. This should result in quite a shift in the mental state of many people.
Not if they are watching what amounts to tv online. The kind of signal data travels over is irrelevant. Watching tv online, watching it through coax - you're still watching tv. This is Ajit's wet dream - to make the web into cable tv - and most of us appear to be all to willing to assist him. Give us the greatest tool for discovery, communication, and knowledge the world has ever seen, and what do we do? Watch YouTube. Tim Berners Lee must be on suicide watch.
Everything old is new again. Online shopping in the 90's. Pulling the plug on TV since the 2000's. Vinyl, Cassette tapes, the Amiga.... keep playing follow the leader chums. :P
...and 50-60 years ago, more people played bridge in the evenings than watched television. Call it progress if you must, but it bores the shit out of me.
Modern television programming is the equivalent of CB radio from the 1980s. It needs an A/V squelch knob.
How do they differentiate between internet time spent watching Netflix (ie TV), and internet time spent doing internet things eg Facebook?
its nice line