“Research conducted by the Technology Policy Institute in Washington has found that every hour spent online equates to, on average, 16 fewer minutes working.
The sites also affect our sleep – we lose seven minutes sleeping for each hour online; spend 17 minutes less outside in the real world and miss out on a staggering 18 days seeing friends.
For his paper, What we are not doing when we’re online, economist and researcher from the institute, Scott Wallsten studied eight years of government data about Americans online from 2003 to 2011.”.* Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz and John Iadarola break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2471463/Is-internet-ruining-LIFE-Study-finds-surfing-reduces-sleep-stops-seeing-friends-drops-work-output-25.html
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