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Americans spend nearly half their day online — whether it’s work or play — ‘eye-opening’ poll shows
NY Post ^ | 7/27/25 | Carl Campanile

Posted on 07/27/2025 4:20:36 PM PDT by Libloather

Wired Americans spend nearly half their day online — splitting that time almost evenly between watching videos or TV shows and working, browsing and shopping, according to a new survey.

“This new survey was eye-opening,” said Eric Bruno, senior vice president of product management for Optimum, whose telecommunications firm interviewed 2,000 US residents who have a home Internet subscription with any company for the poll.

“We were amazed to see how many hours folks are watching, shopping and browsing online on a daily basis,” Bruno told The Post.

“It underscores how important a strong, affordable, and reliable Internet has become in today’s world.”

On average, screen-zombie Americans spend more than 10 hours daily accessing the Web.

They spend 5.4 of those hours browsing, working, gaming, looking at social media, reading email or paying bills, the survey found.

They spend another five hours streaming video or TV content.

A majority of the people — 55% — use their television to stream shows or movies, followed by 20% with mobile phones and 25% combined using laptop or desktop computers or tablets.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Education
KEYWORDS: americans; fr; freerepublic; online; poll; work

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To: Libloather

Ten minutes online to go shopping or an hour back and forth to the store. Hmmmmm


21 posted on 07/27/2025 5:09:16 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: cross_bearer_02

“We all know Epstein was a pedo, but a guy like that doesn’t get that rich pimping underage girls to rich folks.”

Yes, that is true, but everyone leaves out the other side of the coin. He was blackmailing his participants, hence they were committing treason.


22 posted on 07/27/2025 5:18:44 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Libloather

Free Republic TMZ and Pornhub for me.


23 posted on 07/27/2025 5:19:38 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Libloather
He very likely is happier because of it.

Most of the things that happen we can do next to nothing about.

The rest we can do nothing about.

24 posted on 07/27/2025 5:20:59 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Libloather

I spent a good deal of the week on-line, occasionally with a fish on the other end.


25 posted on 07/27/2025 5:58:18 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: SunkenCiv
So, are you admitting that you're part of my PROBLEM and not part of my SOLUTION? :)


26 posted on 07/27/2025 6:01:32 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: No name given

Lol. I wouldn’t doubt it.


27 posted on 07/27/2025 6:08:47 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Libloather

Porn fiends.


28 posted on 07/27/2025 6:16:14 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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To: laplata

I remember buying a shower radio so I could listen to Rush Limbaugh in the shower (didn’t want to miss his Life Lock commercials).


29 posted on 07/27/2025 6:17:24 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: LibertyWoman

To you. But the entire supply chain is based on the internet. Without it it collapses. And you couldn’t call people — land lines are all but extinct and all telephony is via the internet.

How would you get food. How would you PAY for food — all transactions would have to be cash only.


30 posted on 07/27/2025 6:29:48 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: bigdaddy45

There’s always an answer. But you’re right if it collapsed it would be a problem but unless it is due to war, it would be solved. Satellites are not dependent on internet. There was an entire system prior to the internet. I’m in a rural area so hunting isn’t out of the question. Anyway, I doubt we will see that ... well unless the country goes insane and elects a democrat for President the all bets are off.


31 posted on 07/27/2025 6:44:07 PM PDT by LibertyWoman (Turns out, all we needed was a new President...)
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To: bigdaddy45

Guarantee you the system would pivot to cash (or other items) in a NY min. We’d all survive and we wouldn’t have to watch families sitting in a restaurant all glued to their screens and ignoring each other!


32 posted on 07/27/2025 6:49:21 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: LibertyWoman

And nobody thought the world would be locked down for a year+ by a “pandemic”, either. There’s always something looming out there that’s not on anyones’s bingo card….real or contrived.


33 posted on 07/27/2025 6:52:27 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: Libloather

Pretty sure that’s me. I even use my phone when I’m watching a streaming show on TV. Between here, Twitter, texting, and playing games, I easily spend half my day online. I blame it on my ADHD and currently being retired. 🤣


34 posted on 07/27/2025 7:16:37 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: Prince of Space

I spend a lot of time playing the poker app, free republic, YouTube, Amazon and reading books on kindle. The internet is great! 😊


35 posted on 07/27/2025 7:46:08 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

😎


36 posted on 07/27/2025 8:08:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: Larry Lucido

That’s cool.


37 posted on 07/27/2025 8:33:59 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Libloather

I spend abut 2 hours each morning over breakfast and coffee doing the “social activism” thing. Check my email about twice a day on my phone and occasionally order something from Amazon if it isn’t easy to find locally. My weekly phone usage reports tell me I spend about 26 minutes a week using my phone.


38 posted on 07/28/2025 5:38:37 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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