Parents spend more time on Facebook than non-parents: study

Parents globally spend 1.3 times more on Facebook than non-parents, keeping tabs on teens and sharing their kids’ key milestones, a new study has found.

Facebook IQ, the social networking site’s consumer research programme, embarked on a multi-phased research study of 25 to 65-year-old parents of infants, toddlers, adolescents and teens around the world.

It analysed Facebook and Instagram data across eight markets and gathered feedback from 8,300 parents and five parenting experts. “Having a child changes everything, including parents’ relationship with their mobile phone. Moms’ and dads’ mobile phones have become



their lifeline to managing schedules, keeping tabs on teens and sharing their kids’ key milestones,” Facebook IQ said in a blog post.

“By observing behaviour on Facebook, we see that parents over-index on mobile usage. In fact, parents globally spend 1.3 times more time on Facebook mobile than non-parents,” the blog added. Millennial parents (ages 18-34), were 30 per cent more likely than Boomer parents (ages 50-65) to use their mobile devices to make more informed purchasing decisions, the study found.

As many as 83 per cent of the parents surveyed said they have access to more information than their parents did.