If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online.

[Johnboy60]

The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online - NYTimes.com

 

[TemperateSeaIsland]

I think this probably applies to me too. In a sense I'm always online be it for work or pleasure.

 

[a_nony_mous]

I think this probably applies to me too. In a sense I'm always online be it for work or pleasure.

Ditto. (Except for when I'm in class, of course...then I have to tear myself away from my laptop, hard though that is.) For a severely socially anxious person like me, the Internet is a necessity, in terms of my being able to actually communicate with others.

 

[Steezie]

Welcome to the Information Age

 

[christian78]

Every waking minute. That's not too great to see on paper.

 

[Steezie]

Every waking minute. That's not too great to see on paper.

Pay-per.....I dont understand

 

[Axioma]

Hurrah! Now someone get me a neural weblink already.

 

[Yusuf Evans]

Example of why kids are getting fatter these days.

 

[Phylogeny]

It's not just kids....I admit to being in the thrall of my electronic toys. It's also one reason I keep gaining weight!

 

[Dracil]

If you keep a watch on you, you're spending every waking and sleeping minute with an electronic device.

 

[Saving Hawaii]

If you keep a watch on you, you're spending every waking and sleeping minute with an electronic device.

That's what cell phones are for.