Those numbers seem REALLY low
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2025
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Right? 3 minutes 18? That's impressive
Quite efficient I must say!
You're telling me 7-8h of screentime ISN'T normal...? 😬
Mobile?
How did you know 🥹
Because that's not a good amount to spend on a tiny screen. Get yourself a laptop or PC
Portugal being a Balkan country yet again, I see
On the other link aggregation website, there is a subreddit "PORTUGALCYKABLYAT" full of maps where Portugal has more statistical similarities to Eastern European countries than ones geographically closer to it. I can't be bothered to check if we have a federated version of that yet.
Are there certain factors that lead to this?
Roughly it's probably: eastern Europe is poor because of its communist past, Portugal because of its remoteness and too hot climate?
Just wildly guessing, I don't have a scientific explanation.
*Eastern Europe is poor because of the criminal privatisation of public property and society in general AKA economic shock therapy.
How is this data gathered?
Oh you know. By the spyware phone device everyone is using.
If you're not using grapheneOS chances are 99.99% that your data is being gathered for shit like this.
Well, while the map shown here does not link to the data sources, I think at least a large part of these are numbers from the Datareportal Digital 2024 Global Overview Report (since their numbers overlap) which list their partners as:
Amateur hour(s)
As it skews towards the east and north, with Portugal as an exception, would this be due to daylight hours and indoor activities? Combined with relative wealth as other devices could be used in wealthier countries. PCs, tablets etc.
It really is odd that it seems to correlate so well with longitude. I can't think of anything that would actually be a causal link there
I think you're on to something with wealth playing a factor. It would explain Greece and Portugal being outliers in their regions, at least
I'm curious to know why Denmark is so unusual. Normally the Nordic countries see pretty similar results on this sort of thing, but Denmark compared to Norway or Sweden is a wider gap than almost any other neighbouring pair
Although doesn't explain Ireland vs UK which are quite similar in culture and activities. Ireland is now more wealthy, but I'd expect secondary device ownership to be similar as the discrepancy is small and media consumption very similar due to similar cultures.
you must be right: a PC screentime should inverse those colors
This is the screen time needed when you wake up to catch up on everything and get out of bed... Right?
I am only on my phone when I am in a situation where I can't do anything productive. I don't even have Facebook installed on my phone, and I need to open web browser to access it.
Are these ratios of hours online in a day (3:11 implies 3 out of 11 hours) online per day? That seems unlikely given how difficult comparisons like that would be to make.
That leaves the other option that these "hours" are actually hours and minutes (hours:minutes). But, that option is almost as bad simply because then the map subtitle has lied to us through omission in not mentioning minutes.
This map should have either just shown the number of total minutes or shown the hours in decimal rounded to a sane number of significant digits. Making a distinction of a minute or three amongst such broadly general averages of almost certainly guesstimated numbers self reported in a survey seems a poor choice.
Is using a colon to separate hours and minutes not standard practice were you are? It is in keeping with ISO 8601, at least
The point is that those are 2 separate and distinct units. I'm not saying it's not a valid representation of time. I'm say the units in this case are actually hours and minutes, not only hours. It is compounded by the fact that the title is talking about time in a way that is ultimately also a ratio (something a colon is also used to represent), the ratio of hours on the device to the hours in a day. There were many other ways to represent this data that would have been less ambiguous, more clearly showing real differences at a glance, and paying attention to using more appropriate significant digits.
This place should be called mapshitposting for how often actual map enthusiasts get voted down for pointing out amateur mapping and statistical blunders here.