How many hours a day
do you spend on social media?
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Every day, gone to the scroll.
Seven days of scrolling adds up fast.
That's 0 full days.
0 days. 0 entire months.
In that time, you could have:
* Based on research - see methodology
Each dot is one week of your life.
You will spend 0 weeks scrolling.
You
0 years
Current
Reclaimed You
It's about choosing where your time goes.
We use 77 years, the average life expectancy in the United States according to CDC data (2022). This varies by country, gender, and lifestyle factors.
Source: CDC National Center for Health StatisticsWe assume 16 waking hours per day, based on the average adult sleeping 7-9 hours. Social media time is calculated as a percentage of waking hours, not total hours.
Source: Sleep FoundationAverage book length is ~90,000 words. Average reading speed is 238 words per minute. This means ~6.3 hours per book. We round to 6 hours to account for focused reading.
Source: Brysbaert, M. (2019). How many words do we read per minute?The US Foreign Service Institute estimates 600-750 hours for Category I languages (Spanish, French, Italian) to reach "Professional Working Proficiency." We use 600 hours for conversational fluency, which is a lower bar.
Source: U.S. Department of State Foreign Language TrainingThe Camino Francés (most popular route) is ~800km. At a typical pace of 25km/day walking 6-8 hours, it takes ~200 hours of walking over 30-35 days.
Source: Pilgrim's Office of SantiagoThis visualization assumes consistent daily usage over remaining lifetime. It doesn't account for: productive social media use, usage changes with age, or time that might be spent on other passive activities instead. The goal is awareness, not precision.