Checking my Laptop's network usage, over the last 30 days, Chrome has downloaded 88 GB of data. To be fair, I stream movies using the Netflix website, 3 movies

Checking my Laptop's network usage, over the last 30 days, Chrome has downloaded 88 GB of data. To be fair, I stream movies using the Netflix website, 3 movies, so approximately 18GB to video. The rest? Who knows. Youtube is certainly part of it, though I rarely watch videos full screen so whatever 480p takes up. Then there are mobile apps like Snapchat which, for heavy users, can eat up an easy 5GB or more per month. I had the Chrome bandwidth monitor open while researching that number. The 3 or 4 articles I read to figure out the average Snapchat data use ended up themselves using 36MB of data! (and this is with an ad blocker running...) Figure it took me 3 minutes (not really) to do the research. that is 12MB per minute of data consumption just browsing the internet for references! My overall point here is that data usage has exploded, and not just for consumption of streaming media.