Context:
- My partner is Brazilian
- I’ve spent time in Brazil
- There is a large Brazilian community where I live
- I have multiple friends & colleagues that are from Brazil
Having said all of that, Brazil is massive so I still only have a small sample size to go off of.
The Question I was chatting with my partner about screen time the other day. They were saying that there time has gone down recently (it’s about 6.5 hours per day on average).
If we’re watching a TV show and we pause to get some refreshments, they’ll go straight to Instagram/TikTok while I’m up. It’s not even that I’m up for a long time — like 2 minutes
It got me think about the other Brazilians I know. The vast majority of them would be the same. I noticed this while in Brazil as well, basically everyone used Instagram for news and gossip (all the time).
Again, my sample size is pretty small compared to the population of Brazil but from my experience working and engaging socially with people from all over the world, Brazilians seem to be at the top of this “list” of always being online. Is all of this true (for the most part) across the population or is just skewed significantly for me?
personal context, I average 3.5-4.5 screen on time per day. I do use my phone for work as well, so occasionally it’s higher
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From my experience most younger people have this problem. I do have a Brazilian friend that is abnormally chronically online though, and definitely uses the internet differently. He always finds the weirdest, most disturbing stuff from WhatsApp and Facebook.
Mostly true. It reaches the point of being anti-social behaviour disguised as socialisation - you can’t hold a decent conversation with some people any more, as they don’t stop staring their bloody cell phones. And if you don’t have IG/FB/TT (like I don’t) they look at you like you were an alien.
Brazilian here, from the capital. Just this morning I saw a bit on the news saying that we (Distrito Federal) have the highest cell phone use time per day of the country.
As personal anecdotes and observations (also very limited to my geographic location), people here still care way too much about tiktok and instagram. For a lot of them, it’s where they get their news, as the very local (amateur) news have a profile on either or both. Besides that, shitty memes galore.
Me being the “weirdo” that scoffs at social media, I can’t say much besides what I can see. My screen time is almost entirely on computer, the phone getting my attention just to message people on whatsapp.
