I was thinking the other day about how much media I actually consume daily, and I thought I’d write a blog post about it. The concept struck me because while I was researching for PB4 I came across some interesting statistics. For example, Facebook has 14 million users in Australia alone – that’s over half the damn population! And Instagram as 5 thousand, which is crazy! I also found some statistics about women, young women like myself, and our interaction with social media. We tend to use websites like Instagram for longer than our male counterparts. Which is pretty easy for me to believe, considering the first thing I checked when I woke up this morning was my social media accounts. I literally just got distracted by my urge to check/update Tumblr and Facebook while mid writing this. How Meta.

But seriously – my generation uses social media a lot. And its kind of insane, actually. Statistics show we use the internet for up to 9 hours a day, but if I’m honest, I use it way more than that on the weekends when I’ve got no homework. On a free day I check my phone as soon as I wake up, get out of bed and go on my laptop and stay there most of the day – and night. And even when I do have Uni work, I’m constantly checking social media or researching for said work. It’s constantly in the background or forefront of my day to day life.