{"id":71,"date":"2008-12-19T03:13:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T03:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.boogly.net\/?p=71"},"modified":"2008-12-19T03:13:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T03:13:25","slug":"time-wasted-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/time-wasted-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Time wasted on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2008\/12\/17\/facebook-adding-600000-users-a-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">an interesting article<\/a> on Data Center Knowledge. \u00a0It compiled a few statistics about Facebook usage. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a quick overview:<\/p>\n<p>Total users: 140 million<br \/>\nNew users: over 600,000 <strong>per day<\/strong><br \/>\nUsers outside the US: 70%<br \/>\nUser profiles updated: 13 million <strong>per day<\/strong><br \/>\nAverage friends: 100 per user<br \/>\nPhotos hosted: 10 billion<br \/>\nPhotos added: 700 million per month<br \/>\nVideos added: 4 million per month<br \/>\nActive user groups: 19 million<\/p>\n<p>I showed these stats to my wife, who said &#8220;wow, that&#8217;s a lot of time wasted.&#8221;  The Facebook statistics page says that 2.6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day.  Calculated out, this amounts to a collective 4,947 human <u>years<\/u> being wasted every day on Facebook.  If we assume it takes one minute to update your Facebook status, that amounts to almost 25 human years being wasted each day just to announce that you&#8217;re &#8220;watching tv&#8221; or &#8220;staying inside tonight&#8221; (those are the statuses displayed at the top of my Facebook news feed right now).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting article on Data Center Knowledge. \u00a0It compiled a few statistics about Facebook usage. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a quick overview: Total users: 140 million New users: over 600,000 per day Users outside the US: 70% User profiles updated: 13 million per day Average friends: 100 per user Photos hosted: 10 billion Photos added: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60,136,144,158],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-facebook","tag-statistics","tag-time","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}