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The scale of the UK's obsession with the internet has been laid bare by a new study showing that the ever increasing amount of time we spend online is leading to lost sleep, neglected housework and less time spent with friends and family.
For the first time, the annual Communications Market Report from media and telecoms regulator Ofcom has delved into how people cope with spending so much time connected, finding that more than a third of UK internet users are deciding to take "digital detox" breaks from the web.
On average, UK adults now say they spend 25 hours a week online, up from nine hours in 2005. Three quarters of UK internet users say it is important to their daily lives and 59% say they are "hooked" on the device they use to connect.
The report, which surveyed 2,050 adults and 500 teenagers, found that more than a third find it difficult to disconnect and almost half said they felt lost when they could not access the internet, rising to 59% of 16- to 24-year-olds.
Many of those surveyed were concerned about their obsession with the web. Four in 10 think they spend too much time online, and 41% said they spent more time online than they intended.
Almost half (48%) said that as a result of spending too much time online they neglected housework and a similar proportion (47%) also blamed web browsing for missing sleep or being tired the following day. Nearly one in three said they missed out on time with family or friends and 13% said they were late for work as a result of their internet use.
Comment: Bravo to the Black Lives Matter movement for their vision and for seeing the sheer scope of the problem; that being that the treatment of blacks and others in the U.S. is not at all so different from the treatment that Palestinians receive. But as a by-product of telling it like it is, great cognitive dissonance existing among Jewish people who profess to being "liberal" is revealed for what it is. It seems Zionism comes very hard wired among even those Jews who have some "progressive" leanings.
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