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OPINION - The world wasted 1.35 million years on social media yesterday — this is how I'm fighting back

Source: Strong Words magazine

How much time do you think you spent on social media yesterday? An hour? Five? The answer is 1.35 million years, if we take the “you” to mean the population of the world. That’s half a billion years of rapt, eye-to-screen commitment, every year.

All those millennia of attention had to come from somewhere, and among the big net losers in social media’s demand for

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