Screen Time Statistics 2025

How much of our lives are spent in front of a screen? Recent data paints a clear, and worrying, picture: in 2025, young people and adults are spending more hours plugged in than ever before.

The New Normal: 7+ Hours a Day on Screens

Across the globe, daily screen time continues to trend upwards. The average American now spends 7 hours and 3 minutes per day on screens, according to Exploding Topics, with teenagers and young adults outpacing older groups.

Teens (13–18 years old) spend 7 hours and 22 minutes per day looking at screens, not including time spent on schoolwork.

For the 16–24 age group, the average is around 7 hours and 35 minutes per day for females and 7 hours, 11 minutes for males.

Recent years have seen an increase of nearly 2 hours per day for teens since 2015, a trend accelerated by social restrictions and increased remote learning.

What Are We Losing Offline?

More screen time often means less time with friends—and that’s showing up in broader social trends:

• The average American now spends just 4 hours a week with friends—down from 6.5 hours two decades ago.
• Social isolation has quadrupled since 1990; now, over 1 in 10 Americans report having no close confidants.
• Nearly one in two American adults experiences loneliness, now considered as dangerous to our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

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The Health Toll

All this time spent online comes at a real cost: to our friendships, mental health, and communities.

Excessive screen time erodes face-to-face connection, which has been shown to increase our risk of premature death by over 60%.

• Friendships are proven to buffer us against stress and improve both mental and physical health.

Gen Z is more digitally connected than any group in history, yet rates of reported loneliness, anxiety, and depression are at record highs. Many young people now spend over 40% of their waking hours on a screen.

The illusion of social media “connection” often replaces deeper, in-person bonds; contributing to what some call “the friendship recession”.

At Woopdo, our mission is to flip the script on screen time. We help Gen Z—and anyone craving genuine connection—take small, joyful steps toward more time together offline.
With features like “Real Life Uptime” and playful, community-based challenges, we’re not just tracking time on screens—we’re restoring the lost art of friendship, face-to-face.

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Ready to reclaim more of your real life? Join us!

Source: Exploding Topics

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