NEWS FLASH: People spend a lot of time dinking around on the internet and not accomplishing much.
Share Now on:
NEWS FLASH: People spend a lot of time dinking around on the internet and not accomplishing much.
According to Nielsen, a third of our time online is spent with social media, blogs, and games. The figure is up from 25% of our time a year ago. Meanwhile, time spent on portal sites like Yahoo is decreasing. So we’re playing more Farmville and possibly discovering less of the internet than you might think (using search takes up only two minutes of every hour, social media and games take up twenty). All that investment being made in Zynga, creators of the game Farmville, seems like money well spent.
Wait a second. This is a blog. And you’re reading it! Get back to work, hippy!
There’s a lot happening in the world. Through it all, Marketplace is here for you.
You rely on Marketplace to break down the world’s events and tell you how it affects you in a fact-based, approachable way. We rely on your financial support to keep making that possible.
Your donation today powers the independent journalism that you rely on. For just $5/month, you can help sustain Marketplace so we can keep reporting on the things that matter to you.
