From Slate:

In 1996, Americans with Internet access spent fewer than 30 minutes a month surfing the Web, according to Steve Coffey, who’s now the chief research officer of the market research firm the NPD Group. (Today, we spend about 27 hours a month online, according to Nielsen.)

27 hours a month seems like a good amount of time, but I think it’s more telling when you break it down to daily bites.  So, if it’s safe to round up, we can say that today Americans spend about an hour a day on the Internet.  This isn’t all that much.  What we don’t see are the increasing number of information workers who spend 8+ hours a day at work connected, and a competing amount in the evenings.  I would say that I spend a good 7 hours on the Internet, conservatively, each day.

How bad is that, would you say?  What is a good balance between online vs. offline life?  Personally, as long as I get a good 35 minute run at the gym in, I can go back online without breaking a sweat [pun intended].  Life means living it fully and you cannot do that when you are forever hitting the send/receive button.  Today’s assignment:  Get out and do something.