The average person in the UK spends at least five hours per day on the internet in addition to work-related access and a significant part of this is on social media.
Over 86 per cent of the United Kingdom’s total internet user base (regardless of age) uses at least one social media platform, obviously some more active than others.
Most people online check around 100 times per day, which is about every 10 minutes during their waking hours, especially on their smartphones. (If you find that hard to believe - do an audit on yourself!). This is not an article about the useful topic of how we need to discipline our usage, a worthy topic, but more about how we can use the opportunity presented by this vast marketplace for ideas and discussion. Are we as Christians making the most of this massive opportunity? How could social media be used to tell people about the risen Jesus? Let’s start with a few positives…
