Middle-Aged Americans Beat Millennials in Time Spent on Social Media

Gen X spends nearly seven hours a week on social networks, a study finds, more than any other age group.
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Get off Facebook, Dad. No, really, you're spending, like, seven hours a week on there.

It's no exaggeration: Despite the popular belief that millennials are the generation most addicted to their phones, a recent report from Nielsen, the media information and analysis company, found that it is, in fact, Generation X that lavishes the most time on social media pages.