5 Major Ways We Have Collectively Wasted Time

We spend 1/3 of our lives sleeping, 6 years eating, 1.5 years on the toilet, etc. It's time to update these important things with other...important things.

5. Apps

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For all the 500,000,000 CandyCrushers who have played for two minutes, we have collectively crushed away 3802 years.

That's not a daily breakdown, just a collective number.

4. YouTube

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As a human race, we have collectively spent 14,511 years watching "Gangnam Style".

Again, a collective number, not a daily breakdown. The next 3 deal with daily numbers and, as Sam Jackson once said, "Hold onto your butts."

3. Netflix

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There are about 33 million Netflix users. The average user spends 10 hours a month on Netflix. That breaks down to 20 minutes a day. If each of these 33 million users spends 20 minutes a day then we, as a human race, use 1254 years every day watching Netflix.

2. Phones

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There are about 317 million people in America, 90% of who use cell phones.

That means about 285.3 million Americans use cell phones. We spend, on average, an hour on our phones each day. With a little math magic, that means we spend 17,118,000,000 minutes each day on our phones. This boils down to 32,546 years collectively used on cell phones each day.

And that's just for America.

Who knows what the number is on a global level. Granted, a portion of that time is for work and keeping in touch with families, which is why this doesn't take the top spot.

That's why I said "used" and not "wasted". And yes, Angry Birds falls in the former category.

1. Facebook

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Not surprising that Facebook is at the top of this list. But, let's see WHY it's at the top.

TIME made a widget to check out how much time you've individually wasted on Facebook. It's worth checking out. Facebook reports 1.23 billion people use Facebook monthly. The average Facebook user spends 6.75 hours on Facebook a month.

In a month, we all collectively use 8,302,500,000 hours on Facebook.

That's billions.

Break it down to a day, do some conversions, and that's 31571.5 years used on Facebook daily.

31571.5. Years. A day.

That is a lot of human potential.

Now think about how many people have Facebook, Netflix, Candy Crush, a cell phone, and have watched Gangnam Style at least once.

I'd try to calculate that but I have a flapping bird to take care of.