US adults will spend approximately 44 years of their life staring at screens

Via The NY Post

Female staring directly at her smartphone.

The average US adult will spend the equivalent of 44 years of their life staring at screens.

Research polling 2,000 adults in the US found more than 6,259 hours a year are spent glued to gadgets such as phones, laptops and televisions.

That equates to an astonishing 382,652 hours and 48 minutes over the average adult lifetime of 60.7 years.

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People are spending most of their waking hours staring at screens

Via Marketwatch

Swipe. Click. Binge. Repeat.

Americans spend more time than ever watching videos, browsing social media and swiping their lives away on their tablets and smartphones. American adults spend more than 11 hours per day watching, reading, listening to or simply interacting with media, according to a new study by market-research group Nielsen. That’s up from nine hours, 32 minutes just four years ago.

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