People Spend Too Much Time on Facebook

I like Facebook as much as the next guy, but spending over 125 hours per year on the site? That seems a bit excessive, doesn’t it?

The average person who used Facebook in each of the last 12 months has spent 70 hours 26 minutes on the site during that period, according to a spokesman from Nielsen Online, the company which conducted the research. They also calculated that the most addicted users have spent over 125 hours on the site during the last year – the equivalent of more than a whole working week.

WTF? My work week is 40 hours. Who works 125 hours in a week?

Ignore stupid ass facebook games, ignore all facebook apps, don't collect "friends" like trophies, and it takes 10 minutes every couple days out of your life.

The intardnet, OTOH, sucks up waaaaaay too many hours of my life.

BB

facebook is for suckers who can't make friends in real life

That comes out to 21 minutes a day. There's probably people that spend a whole lot more than that here.

Isn't it 125/year not /week?

i'm sure most of that is from playing games or using the apps.
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Originally Posted by DonInKansas

That comes out to 21 minutes a day. There's probably people that spend a whole lot more than that here.

There's no 'probably' about it.

21 minutes a day? whoopty doo thats nothing. How much time do some people spend here?

Yea, true. I don't use facebook for more than 10 min a week but all that extra time is taken up with gaming, so I don't think I can criticize too much...

no shit

This is the case of a dumb article getting attention via the headline. Goes to show you really can play aroud with statistics!

125 hours a year ~~ 21 minutes a day?

That's a non-event. I spend nearly as much time on the shitter.

Originally Posted by Fafeifa

facebook is for suckers who can't make friends in real life

Haha, maybe for some people... everyone on there is someone I know personally.. it's just a way to stay connected with them. People change e-mails, AIM, or phone numbers, but they won't change their facebook once they got all their friends on there.

Then again it used to be myspace a few years back, and I just switched to facebook because nobody was using myspace anymore...

21 minutes a day ain't shit. I have [H] open all day at work. About 9 hours worth. And set to my home page on my personal pc's.

When you compare it to the average WoW addicts time spent playing the game, 125 hrs/year isn't really all that much. Unfortunately, as a dedicated WoW player for the past 5 years, I won't even type /played anymore to avoid doing the mental math and subsequent "I could have done XXXX instead of playing WoW for that many months of my life..."

I spend about 400 hours on facebook so sucka that hose

People bash facebook all the time, but I've reconnected with people I haven't seen in 15 years. So it's worth it for me as long as they don't charge and I have control over privacy settings.

Originally Posted by BB Gun

Who works 125 hours in a week?

I have been known to work that many hours in a week from time to time. With that said I do not waste time with social networking sites. I do not find any appeal in them what so ever.

20 minutes a day...Some people can work in an office and just leave the browser open with Facebook in one tab. Does that make them addicts because a year they spent 500 hours on Facebook?

I've played Desktop TD on Facebook for more than 20 minutes at a time - I don't think that makes me a Facebook addict, lol. It's just like checking your e-mail...If you have a lot of stuff to read, you'll easily spend over 20 minutes a day on it. Useless statistics...

Hahaha i was telling my girlfriend that shes always on facebook. But then in dawned on me that im always on [H]ard, and that its like my facebook ahaha. At least being here is educational.