This article from ABC News suggests that at first, we may think it's crazy to spend 5 months exposing ourselves to media. However, within the article it reveals, "Adults and teens will spend nearly five months (3,518 hours) next year watching television, surfing the Internet, reading daily newspapers and listening to personal music devices, according to the 2007 U.S. Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the United States." It later goes on to share that "8-18 year old's spend almost seven hours every day plugged into media." The rest of the article discusses long-term effects this kind of media exposure can have on people. The link is posted below:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2727587&page=1#.T4zUq45pM7B
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