How many hours in each week do you spend networking about cats? What prompted me to ask that question is a rather startling article in the news today which states that the average Briton spends the equivalent of almost an entire day each week on their smart phones, using it 221 times in every 24-hour period. These people are not all cat lovers but I guess a good number of them are because the Internet is known for its love of the domestic cat.
The Internet is also excellent with respect to promoting cat rescue and re-homing cats through networking rescuers.
There seems to be an almost manic desire to indulge in social networking either through texting, sending e-mails or visiting Facebook and Twitter. There is a current animalistic thirst for socializing which leads to an addiction to smart phones and being drawn towards Facebook without understanding why, sometimes.
The average Briton uses their smart phone for a total of three and a quarter hours daily. They start at 7:31 AM and finish at 11:21 PM.
If the average Briton is separated from their smart phone it is tantamount to losing a limb and they feel completely lost.
The truth of the matter is that people are overdoing it. Humans are social animals and they are given complete freedom to socialise on the Internet but in typical human style they overdo it. There’s never been so many opportunities to communicate with each other but people need to learn how to manage social media to their advantage.
We do hear of people becoming disenchanted with websites like Facebook for various reasons but the pull to visit is nearly always there.
The disappointing news is that smart phones, we believe, have not made us any more productive. If that is true then a lot of the time is spent entertaining ourselves or simply wasting time.
Apparently, women spend an average of 23 minutes a day longer on their handsets than men. Incredibly, people aged between 18 and 24 spend 4 hours and 20 mins a day on their smart phones. People who are over 55 years of age spend two and a quarter hours a day on their smart phones. I find that statistic surprising as well and it does not apply to me.
These findings come from a survey of 2000 people by the business calls OnePoll.
Personally, I spend very little time on Facebook (not enough?) and almost no time at all on Twitter. I don’t find Twitter useful at all. I prefer FB. That said, I do receive (and they are very welcome) information from regular PoC’ers about Facebook pages which I might find useful and which often form the basis of an article.
Today, many people who would have started up their own website now elect to create their own page on Facebook, I suppose because it is much easier to do it and because they are likely to get more visits which supports the statistics presented above.
Photo credit: Mike Licht (I added the bizarre words!)
200 hours in a week???????????????
Kylee dear! I though we human beings have only 168 hours in a week and thus nobody can give 200 hours in a week??????
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Cheers 😀 God bless you <3 <3 <3
A very separated article, not only focusing the CAT ISSUE but also the modern technologies i.e. internet 🙂
I start my day from as early as 3:00 AM and ends it 22:00 P.M. don’t love my bed so much 😉
I have 4 obligations;
1. To look after my old parents
2. To look after my family
3. To help my neighbors in any matter, if they need me.
4. To look after the colony of my cats and kittens
5. To drift along the roads for unlimited time at night, if I can”t sleep with my wife.
And nothing else to do, in between these timings, I surf the net specially GOOGLE the cats issues from various websites and start reading reading and reading. It makes me energetic and motivates me towards the welfare of cats. I visit PoC several times a day.
I use facebook for 2 games, Happy Family and Criminal Case. I have 90% western friends from Denmark (Class fellows) PoC Kylee and Ruth. and many a more. I found almost nothing about cats on facebook (Maybe not know how to surf properly on facebook) 🙁
Twitter is the only place which I have never gone and never used, don’t know but my instinct tells me that it is not useful in any way for me.
I am still thirsty about cats knowledge and my thirst is rising day by day. I need more knowledge. This is what I know. But as Ruth has indicated that we are not people of gadgets and we have seen the era of living within nature and people so many a times I need real people to interact and therefore I go to my friend’s mom and dads and have sitting with them.
I love to sit and discuss with old people as they have much knowledge and experience than young ones, I use to do this from the age of 16 and therefore I had not to re-experience in my life the same issue that had given the result good/ bad to the old one and I knew it before I step into it. So what I call is OLD IS GOLD.
I love internet but only in a limited phase of it and typically the issues of cats and kittens, not much than that 🙂 thank you for this useful discussion/ article. <3
Probably going to be in Trouble I don’t think I use 200 Hours in a week. As I don’t work due to health Reasons, I probably Have a lot more time on hand. SO I’m able to spend a lot more time with the Cats. I make sure I give each of them attention. I find they Often interact with me for example, If im on the Laptop too long or not paying attention to either Jasmine or Rebel or really either of them They come up to me with head bonks and smooches. Jasmine basically just curls up in a Ball its like right stop playing with the laptop and give me attention Now!!!
I agree with what Rudolph said, if it wasn’t for the Internet or Even the Phone Line I wouldn’t be able to Communicate. I Never used to have a Computer until in 1997 when I first started having depression my mum thought of the Idea that would help me with boredom. Which it did in fact got me more interested in things. Its not just on Facebook or Google. Im very addicted to doing my Hobbies now with Scrapbooking and other Things. I have a smart Phone, but I don’t use it all the time. As it is hardly anyone texts me on it.
I spend about 2 or 3 hours at night trying to find homes for kitties and dogs in shelters . And I read poc everyday.I check my e mail. I t takes about 5 minutes. I like to think I make a diffence sharing the homeless and abused animals.The rest of the day is housework and taking care of my animals and family.
You are organised and totally immersed in the cat world particularly rescue. That’s what it seems like. You don’t have a smart phone?
Desktop only here.
Rarely have to search for any cat info because I subscribe to many sites and get emails galore about cats (and dogs)and from rescue group members.
Rarely go to FB unless connecting with family members.
I have a special interest in kill shelters and their covert activities, but I prefer to just pay in-person visits to the cat areas there.