{"id":7534,"date":"2017-07-24T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=7534"},"modified":"2017-06-02T07:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:48:39","slug":"internet-trends-internet-usage-saturates-as-users-run-out-of-available-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/internet-trends-internet-usage-saturates-as-users-run-out-of-available-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Trends: Internet Usage Saturates as Users Run out of Available Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People&#8217;s lives have become saturated with their interaction with the Internet. \u00a0Mary Meeker&#8217;s recent annual report on the internet found that in the US that people only spent 4 percent more time on the internet in 2016, compared to 2015. \u00a0The growth in the total number of hours spent on the internet daily has been slowing the past few years. \u00a0In 2016, the average American spent 5.6 hours 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