OUT OF MY GORD BLOG — Jan 4 — The U.S. Census Bureau has just released its new statistical abstract. Here's how the average adult or teen will spend his or her time in 2007: 65 days in front of the TV; 41 days listening to the radio; a little over a week on the Internet; a week reading a daily newspaper; and another week listening to recorded music. FULL ARTICLE @OOMG
Mark Brooks: I'm online 45+ hours a week, never watch TV, watch Netflix movies 6 hours a week, listen to internet radio (Rhapsody, Shoutcast) 3 hours a week, read online news several hours a week and read physical newspapers and magazines a couple of hours a week. How about you? How about the average internet dater? Your comments please…
I watch 2 hours of TV a week. Spend 8 hours reading Internet news and blogs. Watch online video 1 hour a week. Listen to recorded music 7 hours a week. Listen to radio news 5 hours a week. Never listen to online radio. I watch maybe (maybe) one movie a week (blockbuster).
What’s interesting to me about this topic is how much time we Westerners spend passively recieving information and entertainment etc. and how little time we spend actually processing it – thinking about it, letting it sink in a little.
I think if we did, we’d be more interesting people to talk to. Don’t you think?
Mark,
My stats are almost exactly to yours, though I watch about 2 hours of tv a day (The Big Idea on CNBC http://www.bigideadonny.com/ ).
Dear Mark,
I spend most of the time in the Internet like you. Reading 5 hours a week and sleeping a little 😉
Watch TV to have a rest… Is that normal? Hope so. By the way, as for Dating Online – I explore this theme almost everywhere both from personal and professional points of view. So we can say I’m in that sphere every day.
We’re like the “Gen Y group” of people who live online and their number is growing nowadays. These are people whom we should target at our Dating Sites. They are active, young, optimistic, always connected, informed and highly motivated.
I’m a grad student and here are my stats:
-No TV
-Online (email / reading news on laptop) 30 – 40 hrs per week
-Online (email on treo) 2 hrs per week
-Reading physical content 30 hrs per week