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Re:ByteDance in talks with banks to borrow over $3B by blocked_again on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:05AM (#28458149)
> Not MTV exclusively, but yes I knew kids (in elementary school!)

Which I suppose was a small minority. Defintely not the case with TikTok.

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Re:ByteDance in talks with banks to borrow over $3B by throwaway34241 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:32PM (#28459474)
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...

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