serious question: how do millennials have so much time to consume internet content?

8 hour work day

1 hour total commute

1 hour make meals for day

1 hour workout

8 hour sleep

4 hour joe rogan podcast

1 hour miscellaneous (showers, watching sports center)

= 24 hours

Did you know you can listen to a podcast while doing another task?

I'm an old guy but I combined running on the treadmill 2 hours with watching a basketball game.

Besides that, if you only work 30 hours a week, that gives you almost 20 hours a day of free time.

In the age before social media and texting, people--we--used to call each other and have long talks. Do young people still do that?

I didn't think so.

The same way that lots of kids of my generation managed to consume 4-6 hours of television programming every day. Social media might be relatively new, but wasting massive amounts of time on stupid stuff is not new by any stretch.

KudzuRunner wrote:

In the age before social media and texting, people--we--used to call each other and have long talks. Do young people still do that?

I didn't think so.

Most millennials are terrified of phone calls and will put off adult responsibilities to avoid them

As an almost millennial also on the border of being gen-z, I can tell you that the first poster is pretty much correct. However, a lot of this media consumption happens INSTEAD of sleeping. The younger generations right now are chronically sleep deprived. I get hardly 3 hours of sleep per night because I waste so much time on my computer or browsing on my phone.

3 hours a night!??

I think of Bekele more than 3 hours everyday.

According to Neilson data, the average Boomer watches upwards of SIX hours of television per day. Monkey see, monkey do.

we dont work on farms anymore wrote:

8 hour work day

1 hour total commute

1 hour make meals for day

1 hour workout

8 hour sleep

4 hour joe rogan podcast

1 hour miscellaneous (showers, watching sports center)

= 24 hours

Where are you fitting in the 2 hours of pr0n?

The real question is how boomers watch so much Fox news per day.

Younger perspective wrote:

As an almost millennial also on the border of being gen-z, I can tell you that the first poster is pretty much correct. However, a lot of this media consumption happens INSTEAD of sleeping. The younger generations right now are chronically sleep deprived. I get hardly 3 hours of sleep per night because I waste so much time on my computer or browsing on my phone.

that is stupid, get some damn self control

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we dont work on farms anymore wrote:

8 hour work day

1 hour total commute

1 hour make meals for day

1 hour workout

8 hour sleep

4 hour joe rogan podcast

1 hour miscellaneous (showers, watching sports center)

= 24 hours

Where are you fitting in the 2 hours of pr0n?

That's internet content too

Banana Bread wrote:

I think of Bekele more than 3 hours everyday.

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It counts wrote:

you left some parts out wrote:

Where are you fitting in the 2 hours of pr0n?

That's internet content too

But there's no time for internet on the list! Do you fap while listening to Joe Rogan? In the bathroom at work? While in the shower or watching Sports Center? Is it part of the workout routine?

First, there is a lot of content that does not get consumed and either effectively rots or it becomes shriveled and desiccated.

Some of it is only partially consumed (its opened and tasted, but then quickly set aside in favor of something else).

And there are a lot of fast eaters.

Some people are very good at partially consuming things. They might lick the frosting, but leave the cake.

Also, if you are a parasite sucking off a bigger host, you do not need many substantive calories just to stay alive. Once you latch on, you have the luxury of inefficiently processing nutrients.

I’m a Gen X guy....but you simply multitask. TV on, scrolling on FB or whatever. If it’s something I’m interested in on TV then you scroll during commercials. Back in the day we would just surf the TV looking for something interesting. I used to watch the evening and nightly news every day then Letterman. TV ratings have plunged as social media use has risen. I’ve actually stopped using FB. I don’t use any social media now.

Alan

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It counts wrote:

That's internet content too

But there's no time for internet on the list! Do you fap while listening to Joe Rogan? In the bathroom at work? While in the shower or watching Sports Center? Is it part of the workout routine?

Are there men that don't fap in the shower?

Most gen x, y, zers, baby boomers spend hours daily watching TV. It's the same amount of time to spend on the internet.