The kids these days and their electronic toys:
Those ages 8 to 18 spend more than seven and a half hours a day with such devices, compared with less than six and a half hours five years ago, when the study was last conducted. And that does not count the hour and a half that youths spend texting, or the half-hour they talk on their cellphones.
And because so many of them are multitasking — say, surfing the Internet while listening to music — they pack on average nearly 11 hours of media content into that seven and a half hours.
So not counting multitasking, they spend nine and a half hours per day using electronic devices. If you figure six hours of school, eight hours of sleep, and half an hour eating, that means they basically spend every free minute of their day using this stuff. That’s pretty impressive. Full report here. Breakdown by race and ethnicity below.
