Re:ByteDance in talks with banks to borrow over $3B
by blocked_again on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:05AM
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> Not MTV exclusively, but yes I knew kids (in elementary school!)
Which I suppose was a small minority. Defintely not the case with TikTok.
Re:ByteDance in talks with banks to borrow over $3B
by throwaway34241 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:32PM
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The the statistic that was bandied about at the time was 5hrs of TV a day on average, across all Americans. I don’t have a number for kids but of course they had more free time than working adults.
That seems to fit with this recent data [1], which shows the average as still high but lower in the younger demographic. It has the 65+ group as 7+ hrs/day on average, which seems mildly horrifying considering half of people are likely above that. But perhaps not surprising - especially with the obesity rates being what they are, many people may not be very mobile at that age.
[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/15224/daily-tv-consumption-by...
Not MTV exclusively, but yes I knew kids (in elementary school!) that watched TV for hours every day (although I didn’t grow up with that habit).
Pretty sure the same hours-a-day thing was true for video games as well, although in my view at least that’s not totally passive and was sometimes social (kids playing against each other in person).