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> Do kids used to watch MTV for hours daily in 90s? Not MTV exclusively, but yes I knew kids (in elementary school!) that watched TV for hours every day (altho
by throwaway34241 5y ago
> Do kids used to watch MTV for hours daily in 90s?
Not MTV exclusively, but yes I knew kids (in elementary school!) that watched TV for hours every day (although I didn’t grow up with that habit).
Pretty sure the same hours-a-day thing was true for video games as well, although in my view at least that’s not totally passive and was sometimes social (kids playing against each other in person).
- blocked_again 5y ago> Not MTV exclusively, but yes I knew kids (in elementary school!) Which I suppose was a small minority. Defintely not the case with TikTok.
- throwaway34241 5y agoThe the statistic that was bandied about at the time was 5hrs of TV a day on average, across all Americans. I don’t have a number for kids but of course they had more free time than working adults. That seems to fit with this recent data [1], which shows the average as still high but lower in the younger demographic. It has the 65+ group as 7+ hrs/day on average, which seems mildly horrifying considering half of people are likely above that. But perhaps not surprising - especially with the obesity rates being what they are, many people may not be very mobile at that age. [1] https://www.statista.com/chart/15224/daily-tv-consumption-by-us-adults/ https://www.statista.com/chart/15224/daily-tv-consumption-by...