As of February 2025, the average daily social media usage of internet users worldwide amounted to 141 minutes per day, down from 143 minutes in the previous year. Currently, the country with the most time spent on social media per day is Brazil, with online users spending an average of 3 hours and 49 minutes on social media each day. In comparison, the daily time spent with social media in the U.S. was just 2 hours and 16 minutes. Global social media usage Currently, the global social network penetration rate is 62.3 percent. Northern Europe had an 81.7 percent social media penetration rate, topping the ranking of global social media usage by region. Eastern and Middle Africa closed the ranking with 10.1 and 9.6 percent usage reach, respectively. People access social media for a variety of reasons. Users like to find funny or entertaining content and enjoy sharing photos and videos with friends, but mainly use social media to stay in touch with current events and friends. Global impact of social media Social media has a wide-reaching and significant impact on not only online activities but also offline behavior and life in general. During a global online user survey in February 2019, a significant share of respondents stated that social media had increased their access to information, ease of communication, and freedom of expression. On the flip side, respondents also felt that social media had worsened their personal privacy, increased polarization in politics, and heightened everyday distractions.

According to a survey conducted in Japan in fiscal year 2024, people on average spent **** minutes per weekday using social media. The usage time decreased compared to the previous year due to the inclusion of an additional age group in the survey.

How much time do people spend on social media? As of 2019 and 2020, the average daily social media usage of internet users worldwide amounted to *** minutes per day, up from *** minutes in the previous year. Currently, the country with the most time spent on social media per day is the Philippines, with online users spending an average of ***** hours and ** minute on social media each day. In comparison, the daily time spent with social media in the U.S. was just *** hours and ***** minutes. Global social media usageCurrently, the global social network penetration rate is nearly ** percent. Western Europe had a ** percent social media penetration rate, topping the ranking of global social media usage by region. Eastern and Middle Africa closed the ranking with *** and ***** percent usage reach, respectively. People access social media for a variety of reasons. Users like to find funny or entertaining content and enjoy sharing photos and videos with friends, but mainly use social media to stay in touch with current events friends. Global impact of social mediaSocial media has a wide-reaching and significant impact on not only online activities but also offline behavior and life in general. During a global online user survey in February 2019, a significant share of respondents stated that social media had increased their access to information, ease of communication, and freedom of expression. On the flipside, respondents also felt that social media had worsened their personal privacy, increased a polarization in politics and heightened everyday distractions.

It starts with a familiar flick of the thumb. A notification pops up during breakfast, a reel plays in the background while brushing teeth, and before we know it, half the morning has disappeared into a scroll. This isn’t just anecdotal, it’s a digital behavior woven into the daily routine...

In February 2024, adults in the United States aged between 18 and 24, spent 186 minutes per day engaging with social media platforms. In comparison, respondents aged 65 and older dedicated approximately 102 minutes of their day to social media. TikTok was the most engaging social media platform for U.S. consumers aged between 18 and 24 years. The popular video was also the most engaging among users aged 35 and 54 years, commanding between 45 and 50 minutes of users' daily attention. Respondents aged between 55 and 65, reported to spending between 45 minutes daily on Facebook.

This is dummy data, that I have generated by using the 'NumPy' Library of Python. This data shows how much a user spends time on their devices using Social Media.

I generated this data to train an AI model for myself for practice purposes only.

The description for each column is as follows:

• age: The age of the user.
• gender: The gender identity of the user (Male, Female, Non-binary).
• demographics: The type of area the user resides in (Urban, Suburban, Rural).
• interests: The user's primary area of interest or hobby.
• device_type: The type of device used by the user (Mobile).
• location:The country of residence for the user.
• platform: The social media platform where the user spends time.
• profession: The user's occupation or professional status.
• income: The yearly income of the user.
• indebt: Indicates whether the user is in debt (True or False).
• homeowner: Indicates whether the user owns a home (True or False).
• owns_cars: Indicates whether the user owns cars (True or False).

How many people use social media? Social media usage is one of the most popular online activities. In 2025, over 5.4 billion people were estimated to be using social media worldwide, a number projected to increase to over 6.6 billion in 2030. Who uses social media? Social networking is one of the most popular digital activities worldwide, and it is no surprise that social networking penetration across all regions is constantly increasing. As of January 2023, the global social media usage rate stood at 59 percent. This figure is anticipated to grow as less developed digital markets catch up with other regions when it comes to infrastructure development and the availability of cheap mobile devices. In fact, most of social media’s global growth is driven by the increasing usage of mobile devices. The mobile-first market of Eastern Asia topped the global ranking of mobile social networking penetration, followed by established digital powerhouses such as the Americas and Northern Europe. How much time do people spend on social media? Social media is an integral part of daily internet usage. On average, internet users spend 151 minutes per day on social media and messaging apps, an increase of 40 minutes since 2015. On average, internet users in Latin America had the highest average time spent per day on social media. What are the most popular social media platforms? Market leader Facebook was the first social network to surpass one billion registered accounts and currently boasts approximately 2.9 billion monthly active users, making it the most popular social network worldwide. In June 2023, the top social media apps in the Apple App Store included mobile messaging apps WhatsApp and Telegram Messenger, as well as the ever-popular app version of Facebook.

During the third quarter of 2024, internet users in the United Kingdom (UK) spent an average over five and a half hours per day accessing the internet via any device. UK online audiences spent approximately * hour and ** minutes per day on social media, while an additional ** minutes were devoted to using a gaming console daily. Traditional media - is usage declining? Some forms of traditional media in the country are in decline more than others when it comes to usage, which is especially visible in the case of TV. In recent years the number of TV households in the UK has remained fairly unchanged; however, the time spent watching television has been constantly decreasing. Interestingly, radio listenership has not followed this trend. Digital radio format usage is growing as per some studies. Yet, live radio dominates the time spent with any audio in the UK by a large margin.British radio is a showcase for the loyalty of its fans. In mid-2023, after 30 years of employment at BBC, Ken Bruce, one of the highest-earning presenters of the company, left to work at a rival radio station. He took both of his signature programs to his new employer. Even though BBC Radio 2 remains the leading radio station in the UK by audience numbers, Bruce’s departure meant a loss of * million listeners for the BBC between the first and second quarters of 2023.

In 2008, the average human attention span was 12 seconds. Fast forward to 2025, and many studies suggest it's now hovering around 8 seconds, shorter than that of a goldfish. It’s no coincidence that during this same period, social media platforms surged to dominate how we consume content. Whether you're...

According to a survey conducted in June 2023, adults in the United States spent more time per day on TikTok than on any other leading social media platform. Overall, respondents reported spending an average of 53.8 minutes per day on the social video app. YouTube and Twitter ranked second and third, each with an average of 48 minutes and 34 minutes spent on the platforms per day, respectively.

U.S. teens have time for certain platforms

Different social media platforms attract different demographics, with teenagers in the United States being more drawn to TikTok and YouTube over Facebook. In 2023, teenagers in the United States spent an average of almost two hours on YouTube and 1.5 hours on TikTok every day, 1451257 while Facebook was used by teens for less than half an hour per day. Furthermore, social media habits differ between genders, as teen girls were more likely to spend more time than boys on Instagram.

TikTok is king for teens and Gen Z

Although spending 1.5 hours on the Generation Z app of choice may sound rather modest, some TikTok users devote much more of their time to the platform . According to a survey conducted in the United States in 2022, around eight percent of teenagers in the United States spent over five hours a day on TikTok. 1417187 whereas another 22 percent reported spending between two and three hours daily on the video-based app.

The average Twitter user spends 5.1 hours per month on the platform.

Users spend an average of 19.6 hours per month on TikTok alone. This works out to be approximately 39 minutes per day.

📊 Social Media vs Productivity — Realistic Behavioral Dataset (30,000 Users)

This dataset explores how daily digital habits — including social media usage, screen time, and notification exposure — relate to individual productivity, stress, and well-being.

🔍 What’s Inside?

The dataset contains 30,000 real-world-style records simulating behavioral patterns of people with various jobs, social habits, and lifestyle choices. The goal is to understand how different digital behaviors correlate with perceived and actual productivity.

🧠 Why This Dataset is Valuable

• ✅ Designed for real-world ML workflows
  Includes missing values, noise, and outliers — ideal for practicing data cleaning and preprocessing.

• 🔗 High correlation between target features
  The perceived_productivity_score and actual_productivity_score are strongly correlated, making this dataset suitable for experiments in feature selection and multicollinearity.

• 🛠️ Feature Engineering playground
  Use this dataset to practice feature scaling, encoding, binning, interaction terms, and more.

• 🧪 Perfect for EDA, regression & classification
  You can model productivity, stress, or satisfaction based on behavior patterns and digital exposure.

🧾 Columns & Feature Info

📌 Notes

• Contains NaN values in critical columns (productivity, sleep, stress) for data imputation tasks
• Includes outliers in media usage, coffee intake, and notification count
• Target columns are strongly correlated for multicollinearity testing
• Multi-purpose: regression, classification, clustering, visualization

💡 Use Cases

• Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
• Feature engineering pipelines
• Machine learning model benchmarking
• Statistical hypothesis testing
• Burnout and mental health prediction projects

📥 Bonus

👉 Sample notebook coming soon with data cleaning, visualization, and productivity prediction!

Context

This dataset explores the relationship between digital behavior and mental well-being among 100,000 individuals. It records how much time people spend on screens, use of social media (including TikTok), and how these habits may influence their sleep, stress, and mood levels.

It includes six numerical features, all clean and ready for analysis, making it ideal for machine learning tasks like regression or classification. The data enables researchers and analysts to investigate how modern digital lifestyles may impact mental health indicators in measurable ways.

Dataset Applications

• Quantify how screen‑time, TikTok use, or multi‑platform engagement statistically relate to stress, sleep loss, and mood.
• Train regression or classification models that forecast stress level or mood score from real‑time digital‑usage metrics.
• Feed user‑specific data into recommender systems that suggest screen‑time caps or bedtime routines to improve mental health.
• Provide evidence for guidelines on youth screen‑time limits and platform moderation based on observed stress‑sleep trade‑offs.
• Serve as a teaching dataset for EDA, feature engineering, and model evaluation in data‑science or psychology curricula.
• Evaluate app interventions (e.g., screen‑time nudges) by comparing predicted versus actual post‑intervention stress or mood shifts.
• Cluster individuals into digital‑behavior personas (e.g., “heavy late‑night scrollers”) to tailor mental‑health resources.
• Generate synthetic time‑series scenarios (what‑if reductions in TikTok hours) to estimate downstream impacts on sleep and stress.
• Use engineered features (ratio of TikTok hours to total screen‑time, etc.) in broader wellbeing models that include diet or exercise data.
• Assess whether mental‑health prediction models remain accurate and unbiased across different screen‑time or platform‑use segments. # Column Descriptions
• screen_time_hours – Daily total screen usage in hours across all devices.
• social_media_platforms_used – Number of different social media platforms used per day.
• hours_on_TikTok – Time spent on TikTok daily, in hours.
• sleep_hours – Average number of sleep hours per night.
• stress_level – Stress intensity reported on a scale from 1 (low) to 10 (high).
• mood_score – Self-rated mood on a scale from 2 (poor) to 10 (excell # Inspiration This dataset was inspired by growing concerns about how screen time and social media affect mental health. It enables analysis of the links between digital habits, stress, sleep, and mood—encouraging data-driven solutions for healthier online behavior and emotional well-being. # Ethically Mined Data: This dataset has been ethically mined and synthetically generated without collecting any personally identifiable information. All values are artificial but statistically realistic, allowing safe use in academic, research, and public health projects while fully respecting user privacy and data ethics.

The average time spent on social media by young people aged between 16 and 25 seemed quite important in France in 2021. According to the survey, carried out in January 2021, more than half of the ***** respondents said they spent less than *** hours a day on social media. About ** percent reckoned spending between ***** and **** hours on these networks, and ** percent dedicated more than **** hours to their online social media activity.

During the second quarter of 2025, internet users in Kenya spent the most time per week using social media, excluding watching videos, at 14 hours and 18 minutes. The Philippines and Nigeria also reported high usage levels. By comparison, internet users in Japan spent less than *********** per week on social media. Low levels of daily usage were also recorded in China and South Korea. As of February 2025, the social network Facebook was ranked first worldwide in terms of active users, at over ***** billion. Other popular social media include mobile messaging platforms YouTube and WhatsApp, as well as social content sharing networks such as Instagram and social video platform TikTok. Most social networks are accessible through multiple platforms, but many popular social media started out as mobile apps, demonstrating the growing trend of mobile-first development. Examples include Instagram, which initially was launched as an iOS photo editing and discovery app as well as a mobile social messenger, and TikTok. Social networking does not only enable users to connect with other people but also with brands and celebrities. Social media has also become a growing source of news for internet users in many countries.

According to a 2023 survey conducted in the United States, teenagers spent an average of 4.8 hours every day on social media platforms. Girls spent 5.3 hours on social networks daily, compared to 4.4 hours for boys. YouTube and TikTok were the most popular online networks among those aged 13 to 19, with 1.9 and 1.5 hours of average daily engagement, respectively. The most used platform for girls was TikTok, while the most used platform for boys was YouTube. Are teens constantly connected to social media? YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat are the most attractive and time-consuming platforms for young internet users. A survey conducted in the U.S. in 2023 found that 62 percent of teenagers were almost constantly connected to Instagram, and 17 percent were almost constantly connected to TikTok. Overall, 71 percent of teens used YouTube daily, and 47 percent used Snapchat daily. Furthermore, YouTube had a 93 percent reach among American teens in 2023, down from 95 percent in 2022. Teens and their internet devices For younger generations especially, social media is mostly accessed via mobile devices, and almost all teenagers in the United States have smartphone access. A 2023 survey conducted in the U.S. found that 92 percent of teens aged 13 to 14 years had access to a smartphone at home, as well as 97 percent of those aged 15 to 17. Additionally, U.S. girls were slightly more likely than their male counterparts to have access to a smartphone.

In 2024, children in the United Kingdom spent an average of *** minutes per day on TikTok. This was followed by Instagram, as children in the UK reported using the app for an average of ** minutes daily. Children in the UK aged between four and 18 years also used Facebook for ** minutes a day on average in the measured period. Mobile ownership and usage among UK children In 2021, around ** percent of kids aged between eight and 11 years in the UK owned a smartphone, while children aged between five and seven having access to their own device were approximately ** percent. Mobile phones were also the second most popular devices used to access the web by children aged between eight and 11 years, as tablet computers were still the most popular option for users aged between three and 11 years. Children were not immune to the popularity acquired by short video format content in 2020 and 2021, spending an average of ** minutes per day engaging with TikTok, as well as over ** minutes on the YouTube app in 2021. Children data protection In 2021, ** percent of U.S. parents and ** percent of UK parents reported being slightly concerned with their children’s device usage habits. While the share of parents reporting to be very or extremely concerned was considerably smaller, children are considered among the most vulnerable digital audiences and need additional attention when it comes to data and privacy protection. According to a study conducted during the first quarter of 2022, ** percent of children’s apps hosted in the Google Play Store and ** percent of apps hosted in the Apple App Store transmitted users’ locations to advertisers. Additionally, ** percent of kids’ apps were found to collect persistent identifiers, such as users’ IP addresses, which could potentially lead to Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) violations in the United States. In the United Kingdom, companies have to take into account several obligations when considering online environments for children, including an age-appropriate design and avoiding sharing children’s data.

This is the breakdown of Twitter users by age group.

Hong Kong internet users spent an average of *** hour ** minutes each day on social media, according to a 2024 digital usage survey. YouTube gained the highest attention with monthly usage time averaging ** hours and ** minutes per user, which means that users spent about ** minutes a day on the platform. Facebook came in second with ** hours and ** minutes in the monthly screen time, down by ***** hours. Instagram, on the other hand, up by *** hour to ** hours and ** minutes.