According to a new survey:
- The average person will spend eight minutes, five days a week sucked into an Internet wormhole while searching for information.
- That translates to 35 hours a year.
- 60% of people say that when they get sucked in they feel like time moves faster and they “don’t know where the time goes.”
- The most common topics that suck people in on the Internet include:
- Entertainment (51%)
- News and current events (40%)
- Historical events/figures (34%)
- Science (32%)
- Human health conditions (31%)
- Politics (28%)
- True crime/forensics (25%)
- Technology advancements (23%)
- Pop culture (celebrities) (21%)
- Mental health (21%)
- And folks just can’t seem to get enough knowledge when it comes to the Internet, with the average person looking something up five times a day.
- Quite often these searches are prompted by some sort of argument with another person.
- The most common debates folks have is over historical events (41%).
- Other common debates include:
- Political/economic facts (41%)
- What year something happened (40%)
- Spelling (37%)
- Actors/actresses in movies (34%)
- Weather forecasts (33%)
- Which artist sings a particular song (29%)