- 48 percent of Facebook users check their account more than once per day
- 23 percent of Facebook users check their account more than five times per day
- 8 percent of Facebook users check their account more than ELEVEN times per day
- The mean number of daily Facebook checks is 4
Four! How many things do you do four or more times per day, ruling out purely physiological activities like blinking? Not many. The list of things that seemingly happen 4X/day: Dwight Howard demands a trade; Keith Richards ponders how he’s still alive; Seth Godin writes a book. But for us mere mortals, the reality is that we’re checking Facebook about as often as we do ANYTHING.
What we put on Facebook is our own, curated vision of what our life is or should be. In that way, it is inherently false. But perhaps Facebook is the digital version of the axiom “many a truth is said in jest” and the artificial version of our selves we display on Facebook tells the world all they need to know about us? I’m not sure about that, but what I do know is that nobody has friends on Facebook that are so interesting that the site merits four daily checks, much less eleven.
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