No, scrolling through social media is not a ‘hobby’ – when did we forget the joy of proper pastimes?
Some of us love to go salsa dancing. Others, trekking mountain trails. And for a certain cohort, passions are stoked by... watching stuff on Tiktok?
When I recently found out that one in four of us considers scrolling through social media to be a genuine hobby, I wanted to hurl my phone into the sea and pitch my laptop down an abandoned quarry. It made my heart hurt.
. That’s according to new research from the National Lottery, which found that 24 per cent of 4,000 Brits surveyed – representing the equivalent of 12.8 million people – would count flicking their thumb or index. A third recognised that the amount of time they spend on social media is literally stopping them from pursuing other interests.
