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Millennial Life: Eat, Sleep, Work, Screens

Madeline Joung

   Would you give up nearly a decade of your life looking at your
   cellphone?

   Calculated by today's usage, the average person spends a little over
   76,500 hours -- or 8.74 years -- on a smartphone over a lifetime,
   according to a [1]recent study by a mobile device comparison site,
   WhistleOut.

   Unsurprisingly, millennials (born 1981 to 1996) spend the most time on
   their phones with an average of about 3.7 hours per day. When
   subtracting the average sleep time for adults (around nine hours), this
   amounts to almost one-fourth (23.1%) of their waking lives on a screen.

   Generation X (born 1965 to 1980) comes in second with an average of
   about three hours per day, which amounts to 16.5% of their waking
   lives. Boomers (1946 to 1965) spend the least amount of time on their
   phones, with an average of 2.5 hours per day, factoring to about 9.9%
   of their waking lives.

   However, the new generation, Generation Z (born after 1996), seems to
   dominate their precursors in smartphone usage and screen time: 95% of
   teens age 13 to 17 reported having a smartphone or having access to
   one, and 45% reported they are online constantly, according to a 2018
   [2]Pew Research study.

   In a [3]Twitter thread by a popular American YouTuber, Mr. Beast, fans
   shared their screen time reports, including how many hours they spend
   on their phones and what apps they used the most. Some reported screen
   time of well over 10 hours a day.

   The majority of teens aged 13 to 17 (91%) say they use their phones to
   pass time, but a large share of them also say they use them to connect
   with others (84%) or learn new things (83%), according to [4]Pew
   Research.

References

   1. https://bit.ly/32U3iMK
   2. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/05/31/teens-social-media-technology-2018/
   3. https://twitter.com/MrBeastExtra/status/1328723322012569601
   4. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/23/most-u-s-teens-who-use-cellphones-do-it-to-pass-time-connect-with-others-learn-new-things/

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