The line graph illustrates the amount time allocated by Ukrainian teenagers to four chosen downtime activities each week between 2000 and 2015.
Overall, watching social media experienced a dramatic growth, so much so that, it became the most time-consuming pastime in the final year. By contrast, time spent on physical activities and TV viewership adhered a falling trajectory, while reading hours remained almost unchanged throughout the period.
Focusing on extreme ends, teens who had devoted only an hour on social media apps by 2000 increased it roughly 11 hours per week after two decades. However, the opposite trend was true for watching tv. Started as a chart domain at 8 hours, this leisure time activity adhered followed a downward trend, dropping by 7 hours in 2015 before staying the same for the next 5 years.
Remaining categories – sports and reading – experienced relatively small or little changes over time. The time dedicated on the former went down steadily from 6 hours to 4, albeit a marginal growth in 2010, whereas the reading hours allotted by Ukrainian teenagers were maintained at 3 hours without any shifts for the rest of the period.