How much time do you spend online and how do you spend it?
Personally, the vast majority of the time I'm not in school/studying, asleep or doing daily necessities or the phone is out of batteries, which for a 14-yo without any real social life is usually upwards of 10 hours a day to ~-17. This has been true for me for as long as I can rememeber really, I have pictures of 5-year old me playing flash games.
My time is usually divided as:
55% or so goes to this site, mainly because I like the discussion, it's more serious than reddit and we take our content more seriously. I would spend more if this site had more discussion, unfortunately. I have nothing to do in this site other than find something to comment in or post more often than I'd like.
25% or so goes to reddit, mainly for memes, places like imaginary maps, political discussion (although I gotta say, they're all fkin moderates) , true ask reddit and the ocasional stroll through the front page.
The remaining 20% is, roughly in order either YouTube or NSFW (depends on the day) and news.
Neat. That's quite a few activities you had, definitely helps to put a lot of the people who want this pandemic to end so they can resume their activities, because since I don't engage in any outdoor or social activities, the only effects that the 'crown virus' has had on me was that I need to wear a mask when my parents ask me to go to get groceries and that my class hours are now 2-4:10 PM instead of 7-12:17 AM, and offloading the rest of the student workload for teachers to send me.
When all non-essential services shut down, nothing happened to me because I didn't use any of them, I don't go outside unless I have a dentist appointment.
Just a question though:
Why would you need to use it for 2FA accounts?
My entire job is online, so that's 8-9 hours by default every weekday using the internet to chat with coworkers and to do work. Generally my "social online time" takes place kind of on and off throughout my workday where I'll shoot off the occasional discord message or post to break up the day (like now! I'm waiting on code deployment!).
I do a lot of non-entertainment stuff via the internet, like shopping, counselling, occasional mentoring/tutoring, planning meals, and just general organizing. For entertainment I use it to watch things I'm interested in, like Netflix or the occasional YouTube video, and I consume maybe about an hour of podcasts a day while out walking or exercising which I guess sort of counts? Sometimes I'll check a blog or read an article from either here or from MetaFilter too.
I do some PC gaming as a hobby, although I tend to dislike online games and I only really play with a couple IRL friends or my brothers, so I'm kind of offline throughout that experience.
I used to be Really Online as a teen and in my early 20s, and looking back I have mixed feelings about it. I've tried to cultivate a lot of other non-computer hobbies - I got back into piano, I have a dog that can not possibly ever be walked enough (we've tried), and I have flower and vegetable gardens. I think it's been better for me overall.
Since March I've spent an average of 6 hours a day on my computer, most of that is school or video games. Maybe an hour on my phone. And maybe another hour watching Netflix.
Before the virus I worked crazy hours (by choice), and I was probably on my computer for 1-2 hours a day, mostly for video games. I was so productive on days off, and I was flying through my apprenticeship hours. It's weird to think that I miss working 70 hour weeks.
Too much time - probably like 10 hours per day. But when you're a software developer working remotely under quarantine it's hard to do much better. I do at least get to biking most days. During the week at least 30 minutes in a day, ideally 60-90. On the weekend I try to go on a 4-7 hour bike trip on Saturday then take off from biking for Sunday. I often do some cooking or baking, so that keep things more varied.
But since late March I've been in and out of short-term rentals, which makes things way more tolerable. I'll get a couple of friends together and stay out in a cabin for 1-2 months. Usually there's a hot tub and plenty of outdoor space for smoking meat, biking, etc. During those periods it's probably more like 5-6 hours per day which is great. But currently I'm back in my apartment alone with not much else to do besides spend time online.
I'm typically awake for 16 hours. I'll probably spend 14 of those, currently, online in some capacity, unless I've managed to sink into a game. I'm not working right now because of the pandemic, so... yeah.
During school, honestly, it doesn't change a lot. Because I'll be home this semester, I'll be able to get out of class, do work immediately, and probably be online again, but I'll have my "days off" where I'm at home doing homework 5-10 hours a day, with 8 more spent online.
It's not typically in an addictive capacity or anything, but how I kill time.
I would say that most of the days over the summer break I spend basically the whole day online at the computer, wasting my time in some way, mostly Youtube, videogames and Reddit/Tildes. Definitely healthy. Sometimes I have some programming project going so I am at least doing something kind of productive.
Thinking about what do I even do besides sitting at the computer (and by extension online) is kind of uncomfortable. I play my guitar, but that's just a bit each day, and also often with the help of the computer again, to look up tabs and stuff to play along to. Sometimes I go to the pub or to the tea house with friends, which was ruined thanks to corona for a long time, but now the restrictions are mostly gone in my country, still that's just maybe once every two weeks. Also sometimes I go on kind of lengthy walks, yesterday I walked like 16 km. But it's also kind of hot these days to really be doing that. As I said, I am definitely leading a healthy lifestyle. When I had a job, it wasn't too different, just with 2 hours of commuting each day added, and a part of the day spent sitting at a different computer in a different place.
That's over the summer break, but during the semester it also isn't too different. Which reminds me of all the stuff I will have to do next semester. Brrr.