This is true but because most of us are involved, we cannot see it—I hope this research gives some of us the opportunity to consider how the internet is running our lives for us…

A research conducted by the Technology Policy Institute in Washington has found that every hour spent online equates to, on average, 16 fewer minutes working.

Being on the internet also affects our sleep – we lose seven minutes sleeping for each hour online; spend 17 minutes less outside in the real world and miss out on a staggering 18 days seeing friends.

For his paper, What we are not doing when we’re online, economist and researcher from the institute, Scott Wallsten studied eight years of government data about Americans online from 2003 to 2011. .

According to Wallsten, ‘This research is a small step forward in understanding the economic effects of the Internet.

This is so true…Some of us sit by the computer all day without even caring to step out