{"id":4651,"date":"2020-09-21T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2021-06-15T10:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T09:49:58","slug":"are-you-wasting-too-much-time-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/are-you-wasting-too-much-time-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you wasting too much time online?"},"content":{"rendered":"

2020 has seen us all spending a lot more time indoors than in previous years – and with so much time at home, internet searches have surged by between 50% and 70%, while streaming has leaped by at least 12%, according to preliminary statistics from Omdia, the tech research arm of Informa Tech.<\/p>\n

Things were bad enough before lockdown when, globally, we spent a combined 7.5 billion hours online every day. This totals 856,164 years spent browsing – that’s long enough to travel from Earth to Mars and back again.<\/p>\n

1,426 times!<\/p>\n

So, how exactly are we spending so much time connected to the internet? And are we wasting too much time online?<\/p>\n

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How are we wasting time online?<\/h2>\n

Our ‘always on’ culture, and the ubiquity of smartphones means we’re almost always connected. But what exactly are we doing with all that browsing time?<\/p>\n

Social media<\/h3>\n

Unsurprisingly, the majority of our time online is spent on social media, so how long does the world spend on the main social media platforms each day?<\/p>\n