As Brits spend more than 20 days a year on Twitter and Facebook, here are 10 better things you could be doing with your time
Did you know you could watch all 456 episodes of Law and Order in the same time spent wasted on Twitter?
HERE is a sobering thought – you could read the complete works of Dickens, Tolstoy and all three Bronte sisters in the time the average Brit wastes each year on sites such as Twitter.
You could also try out every position in the Kama Sutra in the 20 days, or 480 hours, spent gawping at social media. LYNSEY CLARKE shares ten better ways to spend your time . . .
Spice things up
THERE are around 100 different sex positions in the Kama Sutra. You could zip through them in 20 days if you aim for a saucier version of your five-a-day.
Write on
IT took Anthony Burgess three weeks to write A Clockwork Orange and the same time for Arthur Conan Doyle to write A Study In Scarlet. So hop to it.
Get qualified
MOST A-levels involve 360 hours of guided learning, plus extra study time. You could be an expert on physics rather than on Kim Kardashian’s life.
On your bike
THOSE 480 hours are enough to do the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia, Austria’s Glocknerman race and to ride across Canada. Lazy not to, really.
Climb every mountain
MOUNT Aconcagua in the Andes is the Southern Hemisphere’s highest peak. You would have time to climb it with three days left over to admire the view.
Brew up
BREWING your own beer will take two weeks for the fermentation, then you still have time for the process of bottle-conditioning – and for drinking.
Binge-read
YES, you really could get through all of Dickens, Tolstoy and every single Bronte there is. Alternatively, you could read every Shakespeare play four times.
Premier pundit
YOU could watch eight seasons’ worth of your Premier League team’s games in the time you may currently spend tweeting jokes about Jose Mourinho.
TV catch-up
IF you must gaze at a screen, you could watch all 456 episodes of the US drama Law And Order – or every single episode of Friends, twice over.
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Learn a language
IF you swot up for ten hours a day for 48 days, you can become fluent in another language. And French is far cooler than speaking fluent emoji.