How Often Do You Check It?

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February 17, 2010

Numbers from Nielsen prove what most of us already knew: “Facebook is the web’s ultimate timesink.”

That’s right, the average Internet user spends more time on Facebook “than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia and Amazon combined.”

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Isaac Fitzgerald

Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeneyâ€™s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed Newsâ€™ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses Twitter.

One response

Windows 8 Forums

October 15, 2010

I can easily imagine that… Google/Yahoo/Bing is only used for a few seconds at a time, but Facebook could easily loaded in the background or for at least a few minutes catching up on things.

I’d wager that billions of work hours are wasted per year on it too 😉