how much time do you spend on online entertainment each day?

[MakeAStash]

I don't consider researching stocks or reading related news to be leisure time, but rather "time is money" time.

[msomnipotent]

I don't consider researching stocks or reading related news to be leisure time, but rather "time is money" time.

I don't, either. It is very hard for me to track my down time. When I'm exercising (which I don't count as down time, either), I am watching the news or reading the paper. When I'm folding clothes, I"m watching CNBC. When I'm posting here, I'm also paying bills, checking our stocks, etc. In fact, what is this "leisure time" you speak of?

[disneysteve]

I don't, either. It is very hard for me to track my down time. When I'm exercising (which I don't count as down time, either), I am watching the news or reading the paper. When I'm folding clothes, I"m watching CNBC. When I'm posting here, I'm also paying bills, checking our stocks, etc. In fact, what is this "leisure time" you speak of?

I also think that so much of what we do on a daily basis has come to involve the internet in one way or another. For example, if I sit down to watch something on TV in the family room, that's not "online entertainment" but if I sit down to watch the very same show on my computer via Xfinity, suddenly it becomes "online entertainment".

If I'm having a conversation with someone via text message, is that online entertainment? What if I'm having the same conversation but using Facebook Messenger instead? Does that make it online? What if I make a voice call with my house phone vs. making the call online via Skype?

My point is that the internet is so deeply intertwined with much of what I do today including many routine activities that didn't previously involve the internet but now do. I couldn't begin to calculate all of the time spent using the internet for entertainment purposes (or work purposes for that matter).

[sv2007]

I don't, either. It is very hard for me to track my down time. When I'm exercising (which I don't count as down time, either), I am watching the news or reading the paper. When I'm folding clothes, I"m watching CNBC. When I'm posting here, I'm also paying bills, checking our stocks, etc. In fact, what is this "leisure time" you speak of?

If you don't post here, would you be done with the bill paying quicker? If you don't watch CNBC and devote fully to folding, would that be completed faster? The deltas may be interpreted as the amount of time you "spend" on entertainment. Data gathering isn't easy, but it only needs to be done once in this case to tell you something if you are curious.

I don't think spending time online is bad; in fact, thanks to all of our times online, I'm able to read all kinds of interesting stuff. (Some of the responses seems to cast a negative light on online time.) I started this thread to post an interesting observation that I made after a bit of data collection. And I'm curious about others.

[sv2007]

My point is that the internet is so deeply intertwined with much of what I do today including many routine activities that didn't previously involve the internet but now do. I couldn't begin to calculate all of the time spent using the internet for entertainment purposes (or work purposes for that matter).

Definitely, Internet has become a part of my life.

About the only times I'm completely away from the Internet is when I take cruise and air trips. Even during weekends, which I don't really surf the net, I still touch the Internet for quick things like emails, reservations, weather, and some news.