Brazilians spend an average of 41 years of their lives online

Have you ever stopped to think how much time you spend surfing the internet? Maybe you can even consider a small or reasonable time, since you still work and/or study on the computer. However, when we add the moments of work activity, studies and fun, the time spent on the internet by Brazilians It's too high. According to NordVPN research, the amount of time we spend on the internet can amount to half of our entire life, as well as being a sizable portion of our days and weeks.

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Internet time only increases

According to the same study, we are increasingly connected to the internet, as we need it to do very basic activities in our daily lives. Like, for example, paying bills, talking to family members, reading the news, and also working or studying. Thus, the total time that we Brazilians spend online reaches 91 hours connected to the internet.

With that, we also say that we spend at least 197 days of the year in direct internet activities for different purposes. In daily fragments, that time would be around 14 hours a day in the digital world. In addition, the study also found that we usually go online at 8:33 am and leave only at 10:13 pm. As you can see, it includes pretty much all of our waking time of the day, so we're on the internet pretty much every waking hour.

remote lifetimes

During the pandemic, this time has become even longer when it comes to using our smartphones. They usually accompany us from the moment we open our eyes until we go to sleep. According to several specialists, this represents a constant danger, since there is evidence that the blue light of the cell phone interferes with our sleep. This is because the production of melatonin, the sleep hormone, will be inhibited by screen lights in general. In this way, our sleep becomes increasingly unstable, defective and fails to generate energy for the day.