How many hours per week do you spend on the Internet?

United States
January 12, 2009 3:00pm CST
Because my job revolves around Internet use, as well as my university studies, I spend a lot of time online. I've never sat down to figure this out before and was stunned when I realized I'm online for up to 60 hours per week sometimes (that's 40 hour work week, and 20 hours for school). No wonder I'm so tired all the time. Anyway, there are some weeks when that is less because I don't have to be online quite as much for school (work will always be the same). How many hours per week do you spend using the Internet?
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26 responses
@dandan07 (1906)
• China
18 Jan 09
I have never counted. i find that I have spend almost all of my free time on the net. Now the internet is the main way for me to get inforamtion and enjoy myself.It may be more than 50 hours. My family members do not like me spend so many time before the computer, they think I spend less time with them and my friends.
@my125125 (818)
• Malaysia
14 Jan 09
Hi Explorations, I spend my time online around 6 hours a day, that would be 42 hours a week, I use my internet for chatting and checking mails, and some bill, so it all my free time after work.
• Philippines
13 Jan 09
lol..... you won't believe this but i stay with the computer 12-16 hours a day.... my husband works with an internet that's why he wanted our webcam on, so he won't miss us that much as he watch what we are doing.
@mflower2053 (3223)
• United States
13 Jan 09
too many hours i can't count lol. I've been getting better only b/c now I am reading more then before. I've been reading twilight books and they are so good I have trouble putting them down. I guess thats a good thing. I do try to limit myself on the internet.
• Brazil
13 Jan 09
My average is the same as you explorations. I work in front of a computer and I study computer science, have lots of friends online, have my work from home things. So the most part of my days I pass in front of a computer. I also feel very tired. Lately my eyes have complained a lot. But oh well, what to do? how to change it?
• United States
14 Jan 09
Anymore, it seems like I am online a total of 10 hours a week, if that. Since we do not work from home anymore, our use of the internet is mainly research as well as some entertainment purposes. As I do not constantly sit at my chair, I usually run off and do other things as well. Most of the time, I am not at my computer for more than 10 to 20 minutes at a time, maybe once or twice a week I will sit here for a couple of hours, at once.
@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
13 Jan 09
If you ask my husband he'll say "TOO MUCH!". I probably spend 30-40 hours on-line a week, and most of that is goofing off.
@hey_baby (425)
• Philippines
13 Jan 09
i am online at work, that's about 8 hrs. when i go home, i'd go online for about 5-6 hours more. that's like half of my day.
@suruchi86 (1873)
• India
13 Jan 09
I'm not able to put in not more than 18-20 hours per week on internet due to my job and other works.
@gracie04 (4549)
• Philippines
13 Jan 09
I usually spend 6-8 hours a day.. so lets say 8 hours times 7 days= 56 hours/week.. =) i spend most of my time online doing lots of things.. for instance, surfing the internet, doing research, reading online news, watching videos, accomplishing blog opportunitites, checking emails and many more..
@paoxav (1382)
• Philippines
13 Jan 09
Internet is my life. My work and happiness revolves around it. My average time of being online is around 8 hours per day. So multiply it by 7, it's 54 hours per week. That's how I'm doin. Sometimes I'm even more than 8 hours online so per week, I might be a little less than 60 hours online.
@lellyp (245)
• Indonesia
13 Jan 09
8 Hour for working + 6 hour after am finis work = 14hour/day since Monday to Friday. 20 Hour every weekend (Saturday and Sunday). Always make sure have enough time for sleep 8hour or at lease 6hour/days.
@laedyan (189)
• Philippines
13 Jan 09
I'm addicted to the internet so i'm always online when i have a time. I don't know the exact hours i spend everyday. I love spending my time surfing than going to a date. I always love to search for anything interesting since most of the files and information can be found in the internet. Also,its one of my way of relaxing.
@nirose (384)
• India
13 Jan 09
i wouldn't miss any time to be on the internet. whenever i am free and i find my computer beside me i would go to internet and then surf the net and do all sorts of things and now i got mylot . I may spend 45 hours on the internet in a week.
• Indonesia
13 Jan 09
I spend about 30 hours per week. Most of it for surfing, seeking for information about make money online, food science, photography, freeware etc.
@elmiko (6630)
• United States
13 Jan 09
probably about 35 to 50
@weasel81 (2496)
• Australia
13 Jan 09
i may not spend as much time on the net, but i know when i'm int he right mood i'll stop there for quite a while and i've got to get more motivation for working on my site, and get things moving there. i love going on early morning before i go to work, while i'm enjoying my coffee. which i'm going to get now before i head off again. so give a good 10-20 hrs a week online. if not more
• United States
13 Jan 09
More than i would ever want to count...we're talking upwards of 8 hours per day.
@W3YL1N (117)
• Canada
13 Jan 09
I spend usually 4-5 hours on the computer everyday. Now that i come to think of it, I feel that it is to much for me. I think that i should stop my hours of using the internet.
@reichiru (748)
• Canada
13 Jan 09
Wow, that sure is a lot of time you spend on the Internet! I normally spend anywhere between 2-4 hours on a weekday, and 4-6 hours on a weekend, so in total my average hours per week on the Internet would be around 18-32 hours. That usually depends on the amount of schoolwork I have, what tests I have to study for, etc. If I have a lot of written schoolwork my hours will be less, and some days I might not even go on at all, although that's not often. And sometimes my homework requires me to be on for a very long time, so it usually varies. But I would say around 25 hours a week. Whoa, I never realized I spend an entire day on the computer each week!