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Aunche on Oct 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Wrong [pdf]

That's total time spent on social media. According to the source, Facebook's usage is 38 minutes a day. I suppose this also counts people who don't use Facebook though.

martingordon on Oct 3, 2020 | [–]

Ack, you're totally right. I pulled that link from this https://sproutsocial.com/insights/facebook-stats-for-markete..., which makes that stat sound like it's Facebook-specific.

https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/average-daily-time-on-s... puts it at 58 minutes, and https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/business/facebook-bends-t... (from 2016) notes that it's 50 minutes (apparently reporting by FB in an earnings report).

Thorrez on Oct 3, 2020 | [–]

I wonder if Hacker News counts as social media.

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