Talk about a time-suck: Whether shopping, tweeting, reading, or researching, people who unwind online spend roughly 100 minutes of free time surfing the Web every single day. And that doesn't include email or gaming, finds a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
One hundred minutes: That's a lot of time spent scouring Amazon for the best price on a new pair of Nikes, or Facebook-stalking old girlfriends. (No surprise, Mark Zuckerberg's baby represents the single largest occupier of our online leisure time, according to the research data.)
Scott Wallsten, Ph.D., the working paper's author and a senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute, was curious to find out exactly what you aren't doing now that you spend so much of your free time online. "If I worked at The Onion, I might title the paper, ‘Researcher Discovers Day Still Has Only 24 Hours,' " Wallsten jokes. (Not bad for a government economist.)
You miss out on the following activities when you pass your spare time online:
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