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More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’::A new Pew Research Center study finds that more than 15% of teens say they're on YouTube or TikTok "almost constantly."

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm on it about ten hours a day when I'm at home, sometimes 15. About the same amount of time I used to listen to the radio - it's great background for when I'm coding, modelling, video editing or whatever plus a great way of relaxing in-between as well as being a great learning resource.

It's great because I can choose what to watch based on the task I'm doing, background waffle about interesting but missable subjects works well for a lot of stuff. I like twitch too but at it's live I can't walk away so easily if I get absorbed into someone's stream so find YouTube much more functionally useful.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

15 hours...sleep for 8 hours, and you have 1 waking hour where YouTube isn't playing.

I guess old people are/were like this with TV and/or radio, though, so it's nothing new.