The Cost of Scrolling

2.5 hrs Daily social media

75 hrs Monthly social media

Everything is to scale

912 Hours

Yearly social media use per person

That's 38 full days of your year scrolling...

73,050 Hours

Lifetime social media use per person

That's 8.3 years of your life...

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years (0 lives) spent collectively scrolling since you opened this website

59,750 Hours

Time it would take to walk to the moon. One foot in front of the other, non-stop, for over 6 years.

1,736,111 Hours

Time spent on social media globally, every 10 seconds

17,520 Hours

Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Four years, 70 feet in the air, covering 12,000 square feet.

Every day, ~21,404 lifetimes are spent scrolling on social media.

175,200 Hours

The span of time it took to build the Great Pyramid of Giza. Twenty years, 20,000 workers, 2.3 million stone blocks.

~340,000 Hours

Time it would take to read all of English Wikipedia. Every word, every article.

~423,000 Hours

Voyager 1's flight time since 1977. Still transmitting from over 15 billion miles away, the farthest human-made object from Earth. 48 years and counting.

Keep scrolling. We're not even close.

700,800 Hours

One human lifetime - 80 years. Birth, life, death. That's how much time you've scrolled past.

Assuming an average swipe distance of 2 inches and an average swipe every 10 seconds... ...by this point, after ~4 seconds of global scrolling, we cover enough distance to circumnavigate the globe. OK, we're coming up on the end now. Just kidding. We're barely even halfway. Keep scrolling.

1,051,920 Hours

Moses walked the earth for 120 years. You just scrolled past all of it.

1,227,240 Hours

140 years since the Statue of Liberty was gifted to America. Perhaps it needs a polish!

1,314,900 Hours

A sesquicentennial human heart beats 5 billion times, in 150 years. That's how far you've scrolled.

Aza Razkin regrets inventing endless scrolling. He said that “we are losing control of the tools we made.” Regardless: Mark Zuckerberg et al, please hire us 🙏 We haven't lost you yet, have we? Here's some brainrot for you...

The scroll is endless; your time isn't.

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years (0 lives) spent collectively scrolling since you opened this page

You've reached the end.

Every minute you just scrolled through represents real time you'll never get back.

It's a great world out there.
Consider checking it out.

What will you do with your next scroll?