Germans Swap Friends for Screens in Their Free Time

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People in Germany are spending more and more leisure time with media.

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Number of days: Only 19% of people in Germany meet regularly with friends, says the current Freizeit-Monitor of the Stiftung für Zukunftsfragen. Social contacts are therefore increasingly moving to the digital space. According to the survey, the proportion of regular newspaper and magazine readers falls from 72% to 36% within ten years. At the same time, the weekly use of social media increases to 71%. Artificial intelligence now uses 42% of the…

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Most people in Germany spend their free time with music, gaming and on social media. How much the Germans have free remains almost unchanged for decades.