Do You Know That Youths Spend One Full Day A Week Online?

A new survey of British youngsters found the time youths spend online tripled in a decade to more than 27.5 hours a week at the end of 2014.

 It's not just people in their late teens and early 20s who are gorging on the Web: The average adult Internet user claims to spend over 20 hours online every week, double the time from a decade ago, according to recent survey. Last year alone, the average time spent online climbed by 3.5 hours per week.

The rapid growth in the use of smartphones and other mobile devices is behind the surge.

"The amounts of time people are online while 'out and about' - away from home, work or their place of study - has increased fivefold over the past ten years, from 30 minutes in 2005, to nearly two and a half hours in 2014.

 "The majority of internet users (68%) are happy to provide personal information online in the belief they will benefit in some way.