the stats that speak for themselves

(The statistics speak for themselves):

Tv viewing time is 2.5 hours per day.

Streaming Services are at 2.

85% of American Adults own a smartphone.

Gen Z will spend 6.6 hours daily.

Teenagers 13-18 average 8 hours a day.

Your 80 years… Americans spend 6 hours per day on different media platforms. Over the course of an 80 year life, that’s 25% of our life. 20 years of our 80 year life will be spent on screens. With sleeping 8 hours per day, that’s another 26.7 years, or 33% of our life accounted for. What are we to do with the remaining 47%? Retiring at 65, we will spend 10.2 of these years working a typical 9-5. (Between 22-55), and from ages 5-22, we spend 2.45 years of life in school. To visualize the breakdown:

We spend 33.4% of our life asleep.

We spend 3.1% of our life in school. (Not including anything extra, like homework, studies, sports, etc.)

We spend 12.8% of our life working.

25% of our lives on our screens. (It’s also important to note, that these times will likely increase, especially if we don’t do anything about it, or step forward to change. In 2005, two years before the iPhone, only 16% of the United States population had internet usage. By 2010 that climbed to 29%. Only three years later, in 2013, 71% of us had internet access. By 2024, nearly the entire United States population, or 97.1% has access currently. As for our screen times, since 2017, we spend 6.5 hours of our day on them. In 2023, we’re now over 7 hours, and three minutes. Nearly 30% of our day we spend on our screens. *its important to note that the all time high was in 2020, during the covid pandemic, at 7 hours, 11 minutes, but now in 2025 we are only a few minutes behind the historic high usage of screens.)

This all adds up to 59.35 years, or 74.2% of our lives.

What are we to do with the remaining 25.8%?