Average daily time spent on social media by U.S. adults 2017-2022

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Stacy Jo Dixon,
Nov 16, 2024
As of January 2021, the average time spent by day by American users on Facebook was 33 minutes, Facebook was the platform with the largest amount of time spent daily, followed by TikTok and Twitter. A factor that played a major role in the time spent on social media was the coronavirus outbreak.

Average daily time spent on selected social networks by adults in the United States from 2017 to 2022, by platform (in minutes)

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Release date

March 2021

Region

United States

Survey time period

January 2021

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

Who use at least once per month

Supplementary notes

*Forecast
Time spent with each medium includes all time spent with that medium, regardless of multitasking; for example, 1 hour of multitasking on Facebook while using Snapchat is counted as 1 hour for Snapchat and 1 hour for Facebook.

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