The World Spends 0.2% Of Its Time On Facebook

, Wellesley, MA

The world spends almost two tenths of a percent of its waking hours on Facebook.

Population[1]6,901,645,960
Waking hours per day16
Waking person hours per day110,426,335,360
Person minutes per day on Facebook[2]10,500,000,000
Person hours per day on Facebook175,000,000
Portion of the world’s time spent on Facebook0.16%

That’s a staggeringly large amount of the world’s total capacity spent on frivolous entertainment. Let’s get back to work!

1 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/10-5-billion-minutes-spent-on-facebook-daily-excluding-mobile/11034

2 http://web.archive.org/web/20110223002408/http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

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