How Much Time Americans Spend Online Every Day

We’re all on screens pretty much every day, but have you ever added up how much time you spend online? Some of us may not want to know, because it’s more than we’d like to admit, but a new survey has the answers.

Optimum, a telecommunications company, polled 2-thousand U.S. adults with home Internet service about the amount of time they spend watching, shopping and scrolling every day. And it’s a lot.

• The average American spends almost half their day online.
• We’re on the Web for an average of more than 10 hours daily, including 5.4-hours for “the three B’s”- browsing, bills and buying.
• The biggest things people do online include:

• Browsing (79%)
• Paying bills (77%)
• Checking out social media (73%)
• Shopping (72%)
• Doing work assignments (37%)
• And finishing school work (20%)

• On top of that, we spend another five hours streaming videos, movies and shows.
• More than half (55%) prefer to stream shows and movies on their TV, while 40% would rather use their mobile phones.
• In general, most respondents use their phones or computers for the majority of what they do on the Internet, but 44% do it from their TV.

Source: NY Post ⠀

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