US millennials spend 18 hours per day with media

Spring may have sprung, but teenagers and young people don’t yet seem to be embracing the great, sunny outdoors.

New research from Statista reveals that US Millennials – those born between 1980 and early 2000s – are spending enormous amounts of time interacting with various media, totalling 18 hours per day.

Online activities were found to be the most popular, with the average Millennial spending a combined total of almost seven hours a day on the internet and social networking sites, while watching live TV, playing video games and watching shows on-demand took the following three spots.

The three least popular activities were using email, text and texting apps (one hour four minutes), talking about news/products/brands (one hour four minutes) and reading print magazines/newspapers – with the average person spending just over half an hour getting their fingers a bit inky.