20 days a year on social media

Social media- obsessed Britons spend more than 20 days a year scrolling through the likes of Facebook and Twitter, research has found.

a study of 2,000 people asked how many minutes they generally spent carrying out different activities online.

The results showed that the average British adult spends 81 minutes a day scrolling through social media – adding up to nearly 21 days a year. Some 83 per cent of participants admitted to checking the websites each day.

Meanwhile, 68 per cent said they watched TV shows and films online, spending an average of 145 minutes a day doing so, making it the most time-consuming activity. The results found a further 82 per cent of participants shopped online every day.

all in all, 95 per cent said they used the internet on a daily basis. londoners spent the most time online, with an average of 151 minutes – more than two and a half hours – used to browse the web each day.

ana Sowerby, of coral casino, which conducted the research, said: ‘The way we spend our free time has changed dramatically over the last ten years.’