About 40% of Russians spend more than 8 hours a day on social networks (07:00)

More than 40% of the country’s residents check their phone notifications every 1-2 hours. A third of respondents said they pick up their phone every 3-4 hours, and 14% access their gadgets only 2-3 times a day. 10% of respondents cannot part with their phones even for a minute. This is evidenced by a study conducted by Yandex Vzglyad and Paverbanks MTS Yurent, the results of which were reviewed by socialbites.ca.

43% of Russians are worried if they cannot access the Internet, the majority of those surveyed say so. At the same time, 12% can live comfortably without access to the Internet.

At the same time, 40% of respondents say that the average time spent on the phone still exceeds 8 hours. Thus, users spend most of the day on their phones. 29% of respondents spend less than 4-7 hours, 2% spend 1-3 hours, and 10% of Russians spend less than an hour on the phone.

Social networks are what attract users’ attention. More than 70% of survey respondents use applications daily. The rest of the survey respondents are divided in their opinions: 14% rarely go online, 10% only once a week, and 5% never use them.

Only 15% of Russians are ready to quit the Internet forever. 37% of users want to reduce the time spent in the virtual world. And the majority of the country’s residents (41%) are completely satisfied with the current situation; they do not want to reduce the time spent in front of the screen.

Only 12% of Russians try to control the time spent on social networks. The rest in this regard either do not want to keep track of the number of hours at all – 29%, or try and sometimes succeed – 26% and try, but 33% of the Russian population do not succeed at all. Therefore, mobile phones and social networks are already an integral part of the life of the country’s inhabitants, without which existence is no longer possible.

Previously It turned outMore than half of Russians play video games every day.