Worldwide Daily Social Media Usage (New 2025 Data)
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Worldwide Daily Social Media Usage (New 2025 Data)
In August of 2021, Statista reported that in an “internet minute,” Facebook users shared over 240,000 photos, Twitter users posted 575,000 tweets, and Discord users sent 668,000 messages. In the same internet minute, TikTok users watched 167M videos, Facebook Live videos received 44M views, and users conducted 5.7M Google searches.
Alexandra Sukin • Roadmap: Curating the internet
People spend an average of 2.5 hours on social media a day - that’s over a month of time that you give up of your life per year.
Every minute you spend on social media is a minute spent watching someone else live their life instead of living your own.
Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
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