You’re reading this on a screen, but you may want to take a break after finishing the article to avoid spending years of your life eyeballing pixels. That’s not hyperbole. Worldwide, internet users spend an average of 400 minutes—nearly seven hours—a day online, according to a new report.
Digital reference library DataReportal in January released its annual Global Overview Report, revealing internet users ages 16 to 64 spend an average six hours, 40 minutes daily surfing the web on any device. That’s about 47 hours a week and 101 days a year. By this estimation, beginning at age 18, a person who lives to be 80 will have spent more than 17 years of their adult life using the internet.
