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How do we spend our time and on what? A smartphone eDiary will tell us soon

Both genders spent more of the weekends shopping than they used to, and less time socialising. And they slept more than they did 15 years earlier

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Lyn Craig I The Conversation

A decade after the invention of the smartphone, we're about to find out how we use our time. Much has changed since 2006 about the way we use our time.

Back then we didn’t have iPhones, iPads, Tinder, Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, or machines that could play us streamed music, check our heart rates and guide us to our destinations as we walked. We didn’t have Uber, Airtasker or Airbnb. We hadn’t had a global financial crisis.

Back in 2006 we used our time only slightly differently to the way we did fifteen years earlier. We know this