Per metric · 2026-04-27

What's a typical daily social-media time in the US?

Median is 2.0 hrs. Most people fall between 1.0 hrs and 3.0 hrs. Above 4.5 hrs is top-10%.

What's a typical daily social-media time?

The median US adult lands at 2.0 hrs for daily social-media time. The 25th-to-75th percentile range — what most people would call 'normal' — runs from 1.0 hrs to 3.0 hrs. Below 0.5 hrs you're in the bottom 10%; above 4.5 hrs you're in the top 10%.

How we computed this

We anchor at p1, p5, p10, p25, p50, p75, p90, p95, and p99 from public-data sources and linearly interpolate between them. See methodology for the full chain.

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