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Design Crime: Social Media Usage Illustration

This is a nice little illustration with the intention of showing how people are sucked into the social media timewasting void on a daily basis.

The type, tone and style is refined and slick, but the data shown is complete bollocks.

Social Media Time Void Lies

So the top of the pyramid is 1 hour.

The next level down is clearly the size of about 3 hours, but is actually only representing 2 hours, and it gets worse from there.

The amount of time people spend on entertainment looks to be around 16 hours, based on the 1 hour block at the top. Not the 3.5 hours shown.

More overdesigned toss crushing the life out of the underlying data. See here.

Sentence: Death by exposure to Excel standard format graphs shown at solar levels of brightness.

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