Hours per month online...?

I'm thinking I'm spending too much time online.  I need a frame of reference.  How many hours a month do you think you spend on the innernet?

In reply to stroker :

uhm...  like, all of them?

In reply to stroker :

For recreational use, I'm gonna say anywhere from 90 minutes to two hours a day, but usually in short 5- to 15-minute bursts.

I spend a large amount of time online... partly for work, partly personal

My job is ultimate real-world; constructing sets from designs.  So, not only is much of my time staring at a screen with designs on it, my unplug time is researching things and learning stuff online.

So my job is primarily offline building things IRL.  I can go for an entire day and not realize I have 6 texts and 4 messages on my phone because I'm constantly running chop saws, sanders, paint sprayers, and band saws.  When I come home, I get to spend my time with you twerps.  And an IPA.

About 12 hours a day, on average some closer to 20 some closer to 4. Phone and computer, phone and Xbox, or just phone or computer. Most of that spent refreshing latest topics here, browsing memes, or finding out that the solution to every problem is always $300 that I don't have.

I quit counting hours shortly after AOL stopped providing hundreds of free hours ever month.

I really don't want to know... definitely more than I should.

Nope. Not gonna even guess. 

Too many, yet not enough. 

Considering my job requires it?    at least 9 hrs per day.   probably closer to 11 all said and done.

During the week, a lot. 

By the nature of it, there are a lot of things I do that make me have to wait, building VMs for testing, updating our content management system, creating help builds, etc.

So I take little micro breaks and check the news, forums, etc.

On the weekends, the only time I'm online is if I'm doing iRacing.

Okay, I'm sorry I wasn't clear to begin with.  Work doesn't count.  I'm talking recreational surfing/research, not streaming movies, etc.

And now, back to your regular programming.

I'm probably online a couple of hours a day on average. Some days it's almost zero, some days it's 5-6 hours. It's usually broken up into a couple of minutes here and a couple of minutes there. Early AM, I'm sitting on the side of my bed stretching my back and perusing FB or GRM. If I'm at my desk, GRM, FB and or OB is running on a screen in the background. I'll switch over between tasks and check-in. I also watch a fair amount of YouTube instead of watching TV or researching some arbitrary topic that popped into my mind. 

The simple answer is way too much time online.

The complex answer s the landscape has changed.  In a pre-internet world a typical evening might have been 3 hours with the TV,  That could have been watching a show or channel surfing.  I would then fall asleep on the couch and eventually head to bed.  Now, I usually have the tablet on in the bed and do what is similar to channel surfing but different content.  Instead of consuming what they are serving me at the time, I consume what I find at that time.  

Is Netfix in the living room on the TV considered online time?  Is Netflix on the tablet while in bed considered online time?

I rarely turn on out living room tv any more.  If it is one it's berceuse my 7 year old is watching something and that is usually the same dozen or so Netflix/Amazon shows.

In reply to RevRico :

Another thing I find interesting.  Historically, I have never been an avid reader.  Rarely do I ever crack a book for pleasure reading.  Twenty years ago I would have likely never believed you if you told me that I would be recreationally reading most any moment of the day.  Sure, it's not like I'm cracking open novels but sill most of what I consume is the written word.  Sure, in phrases rather than paragraphs but still written.  

John Welsh said:

Another thing I find interesting.  Historically, I have never been an avid reader.  Rarely do I ever crack a book for pleasure reading.  Twenty years ago I would have likely never believed you if you told me that I would be recreationally reading most any moment of the day.  Sure, it's not like I'm cracking open novels but sill most of what I consume is the written word.  Sure, in phrases rather than paragraphs but still written.  

I used to read a lot when I was younger. Journalism degree with a philosophy minor killed that after college. And now that I'm constantly researching and writing instructions, etc, when I'm done for the day, I rarely want to keep looking at words.

With the exceptions of forums and such. 

To many. 

My iPhone tells me my screen time every week and it's embarrassingly high(6+ hour average). Is it because most of my work is phone calls, texts, emails or is it the games I'm addicted to?

The internet is an extremely good resource for finding things out but also a giant rabbit hole of information that isn't relevant. 

In reply to John Welsh :

I read every day. I've finished 4 books in the last 2 weeks alone and will probably finish number 5 tonight. 

stroker said:

Okay, I'm sorry I wasn't clear to begin with.  Work doesn't count.  I'm talking recreational surfing/research, not streaming movies, etc.

And now, back to your regular programming.

Depends on the day.  On a work day I will typically come home and spend an hour or hour and a half checking my forum posts, reading emails, and researching things like water jet propulsion, or frame upgrades for the LeMans, or natural fall fertilizers for my lawn (just some of my recent searches)

Days when I don't work (which is pretty rare) I might spend 2-3 hours doing the same