Today’s Smartest Hoosier Ever tackles a new study about social media.  We can’t live without it, can we?  Turns out many can.  In fact 82% of people now say that social media is a total waste of time.  Other findings from this poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal show:

Here are some fresh stats about our ongoing relationship with social media . . .

1.   Six in 10 Americans don’t trust Facebook to protect their personal information.  And only 6% said they trust it “a lot” or “quite a bit.
2.   57% of us think sites like Facebook and Twitter do more to divide our country than unite it.
3.   55% think social media helps spread lies and falsehoods more than educate us against misinformation.  And 61% think it also helps spread unfair attacks and rumors.
4.   And 82% of us admit social media is a huge TIME-WASTER in general.

But despite all that, 69% of people in the poll said they still check social media at least once a day.  Although 42% of us have tried to limit our social media use in the last two years.

Congratulations to James Williams of Indianapolis.  He’s today’s Smartest Hoosier Ever and as such won a pair of passes to enjoy Opening Day 2019 at King’s Island.  Listen all this week at 3:10 to win.

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