How much time have you wasted on Facebook in the last 10 years?

A question about : How much time have you wasted on Facebook in the last 10 years?

Yesterday marked 10 years of Facebook. That's a lot of wall posts, status updates and photos you wish you hadn't been tagged in. If you're brave enough to find out, try this tool that estimates how much time you've wasted on Facebook.

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Best answers:

• 17 minutes a day, I don't think that's too excessive
• Hmmmm I'm 17 minutes per day too and I have to disagree!! lol
• 17 minutes a day is the average!
  Since Feb 2007 mine was 30 days, 4 hours and 39 mins. Whoops!
• Haha! How much do you think you actually spend on it gerturdeanna?
• What's Facebook?
• I don't think i've done 17 minutes in the 10yrs.
  I joined when i first got my computer, about 6yrs ago and deleted my account within weeks.
• Strange, it said 17 minutes for me as well but I have never visited a single fb page ever
• 17 minutes is the average. You have to click on the Start button to get it going for you. Well, I have 'wasted' nearly 16 days on there since May 2010 with 4,721 posts to my feed!! Sometimes I think I spend too much time on there, but otherwise I do enjoy it and have made some good friends/business links etc through it. Also, we live in a remote rural location with no family nearby, so often it is my only link to the outside world.
• 86 days 22 minutes since 11th March 2012. That's a helluva lot of cute pictures of cats and Walking Dead memes.
• Never joined. Have contenplated it a few times but cant think of any reason.
  Too many other ways to waste time.
• Zero hours zero minutes and 12 seconds for me.
  in my defence, in 2011, I looked at it on my daughters phone as it had a picture of my son at university during freshers week..
  Let that be the last time, evil thing, that it is.
• Never been near it or Twitter and the like, and never will! I can't understand why people want to share every waking hour with the rest of the Universe, and to those who've posted things they later regret I'd say "serves you right, THINK before you post". I understand that even some HR departments check these sites when considering job candidates, so a better reason to keep your own counsel I can't think of. I guess I'm just getting old, but I sometimes think that if these sites are the only way people communicate nowadays, the human race will eventually lose the power of speech.
• You have to press start for it to do the actual calculation. It then logs into your Facebook account.
  I got 28 days 16 hours 31 minutes over 2432 days...
  That works out at 16.986 minutes a day!
  I'm thinking I need to spend less time on there!
• Didn't sign on to Facebook and no regrets. Feel it's a silly website for silly people, who take it seriously.
• Apparently 29 days 5 hours and 25 mins but that is spread over nearly 7 years. I actually don't think that is too bad on the basis of time you enjoy wasting is not really wasted and most of that time was spent chatting with my daughters and friends and playing scrabble and other games. I am generally doing other things at the same time on the laptop and also knitting socks or summat similar.
  I wonder how much time others waste watching TV.
• I joined Facebook at the end of Aug 2012 purely to enter competitions and have apparently wasted 6 days 5 hours and 28 mins. Maths is so not my forte, but I believe this works out (rather bizarrely) at 17 mins per day. Do you think the calculation is not how much time you have actually spent on Facebook but purely when you opened your account multiplied by 17 mins a day?
• Facebook is an excellent tool to keep in general contact with family members who live overseas. For example, my brother lives several thousand miles away. We're not close, so wouldn't tend to write letters or emails, and we rarely speak on the phone. However, we both like to know what is going on in each other's lives, and Facebook is brilliant for that.
  Not all of us who use it are silly, and it absolutely isn't the only way I communicate. And I don't put details of every waking moment on it either, just the occasional update of something that is important to me. So I would thank you not to make such sweeping generalizations, especially when you admit you are not even signed up to the website!
• Maybe MSE could install a similar gadget on the DT board?
  Its another compulsive waste of time