top | item 24669998 (no title) martingordon | 5 years ago Source is here: https://www.emarketer.com/content/average-social-media-time-...Not sure how they collected the data though. discuss order hn newest Aunche|5 years ago 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|5 years ago 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|5 years ago I wonder if Hacker News counts as social media. raverbashing|5 years ago Good thing fb never fudged data for the purpose of selling more advertisement(for those who don't remember https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989712/facebook-inaccu... )
Aunche|5 years ago 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|5 years ago 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|5 years ago I wonder if Hacker News counts as social media.
martingordon|5 years ago 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).
raverbashing|5 years ago Good thing fb never fudged data for the purpose of selling more advertisement(for those who don't remember https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989712/facebook-inaccu... )
Aunche|5 years ago
martingordon|5 years ago
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|5 years ago
raverbashing|5 years ago
(for those who don't remember https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989712/facebook-inaccu... )