- The average person spends 2 hours and 24 minutes on social media every day.
- The average American checks their mobile device 159 times a day .
- Users will spend 4 trillion hours on social media this year.
- 46% of Americans say they watch more user-generated content on social media than they watch movies and television on streaming services.
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Worldwide Daily Social Media Usage (New 2025 Data)

"It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline."
By @jburnmurdoch https://t.co/ZHDSr9Eqc6
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.