Joe Rogan shocked after learning how many hours people spend on social media a day YouTube\/JREUFC commentator and famous podcast host Joe Rogan was absolutely stunned after learning how many hours a day the average person spends engaging with social media. It seems like nowadays, social media has taken over the world, with sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and more dominating app space on phones \u2013 and time in our lives. During episode 1649 of the Joe Rogan Experience, Michael Easter, a men\u2019s health writer, was explaining how the idea of boredom has evolved over the years and has reached an entirely new level with modern media. \u201cNowadays, with this influx of media we have, people spend 11 hours a day engaging with digital media,\u201d Easter said. \u201cIs that real?\u201d Rogan replied back, shocked by the revelation. \u201cYeah, 11. And that\u2019s the average,\u201d Easter added, prompting a loud \u2018what\u2019 from Joe\u2019s mouth. Easter proceeded to reveal an even crazier statistic that he learned as a professor at the University of Nevada teaching media. \u201cFirst day of class I\u2019ll talk about how things have changed with media. We lived 2.5 million years with no media in our lives and now it\u2019s become our lives,\u201d he said. \u201cThen I\u2019ll ask students to \u2018pull out their phones, look at their screen time and tell me how much you have. Who thinks they have the highest?\u2019\u201d After going through students, he\u2019ll see numbers ranging from seven hours and forty-five minutes, eight hours and fifty minutes, all the way to nine hours and sixteen minutes. \u201cThat\u2019s your entire day! All on that cell phone,\u201d he exclaimed. According to Easter, nowadays whenever someone has a moment of solitude, they just check their phones. This lead Rogan to remark on how people on dates will be checking their phones instead of focusing on their partner, getting a guffaw from the writer. \u201cThey\u2019re not even talking to each other. They\u2019re just looking at each other\u2019s phones! You\u2019re in front of an actual person and you prefer to communicate in digital with someone who isn\u2019t even there!\u201d Rogan added. Their conversation really goes to show just how social media has completely taken over our lives. Being able to disconnect from the digital world may be hard in this day and age, but having the willpower to do so may be imperative to living a better life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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