AOL survey reports we waste 3 years of our lives lost online

An AOL survey of over a thousand Britons has found that we waste three years of our lives wandering around cyberspace without a clue of where we’re going.

According to the survey, the average Briton spends 4 hours per day online. Over half of the people surveyed claimed that a quarter of their time online is wasted meaning that of those four hours, one is wasted tramping around sites you find while looking for something else entirely. All sounds like a bit of a nightmare, really.

So, to break it down, if it’s an hour a day, that means it’s roughly 15 days a year. Based on the average life span of your average Briton (averages, averages, averages, eh ?) that’s about three years you’re going to spend on line doing absolutely nothing. Depressing, isn’t it ? We also spend over four years of our lives queuing for things, which is even more depressing.

Just over a third of us blamed the vast amount of information available online saying we find it all a bit confusing and overwhelming.

A further, more cynical, 68 per cent, said they don’t trust the information they get online. This means they keep searching and searching until they can find the information they need from somewhere they deem to be a more reputable source.

Interestingly, what isn’t really mentioned much is that the fact we spend four hours per day online. Going by all those averages we were talking about before, that would mean that the average Britain spends 12 years online. 12 years ? That’s ages ! Makes you wonder what people did at work before the internet. . .