According to tha lyfe we live……American Use Survey, citizens
over tha age of 15 spend nearly three hours watching television daily. I
believe tha BLS number to be a little low from my own lyfe experiences with
television watching. For example, a sporting event is at least three hours
long. I have been in numerous homes where there are televisions constantly
blasting all day, many times without a viewer in sight. Another study done by
Nielsen, a company that tracks consumer behaviors, found that adults spend 5.4
hours consuming television each day.Now let’s look at social media. According
to tha lyfe we live new research released TV-2015 by Ipsos Open Thinking
Exchange, Americans dedicate an average of two hours per day to social media.
Between television and social media, this adds up to 7.5 hours spent staring at
a screen. This does not include video games, for all tha Madden and Call of
Duty addicts. That is 2,737.5 hours of television and social media consumption
yearly. That is 114 entire days, 24/7 of watching others’ lives on television
or spying on peers on social media. That comes out to nearly one-third of the
year spent on these activities. According to tha lyfe we live tha average
American sleeps 6.8 hours. This will come out to 2,482 hours or 103.4 days of
sleeping per year. Gallup also states
that the average American works 47 hours a week, which equals 9.4 hours day,
2105.6 hours a year, 87.73 days a year
working. We spend an average of 304 days just working, sleeping, and being
entertained. That is 83.4 percent of the year, only leaving us small fraction
of our time for self-upkeep, relationships, family, self-reflection, personal
growth, and all other domestic task needed to function within our society
(hygiene, cooking, cleaning, home maintenance, etc.) Looking at tha numbers can
be pretty distressing. Most of our time as Americans is spent either at work or
being entertained, with a bit of time left over for sleep. I guess this is why
so many Americans are depressed; medicating themselves with consumerism,
illegal and legal narcotics, alcohol, and any other thing that numbs tha pain
of tha lyfe we live
