Koreans in their 50s spent an average of 57.7 minutes a day on social networking services through smartphones or computers last year, according to the Korea Information Society Development Institute on Monday.

This is a 24.6 percent increase in time spent on SNS, compared to the 46.3 minutes in 2014, surpassing the average time of those in their 30s and 40s.

As expected, among age groups Koreans in their 20s spent the most time on SNS with an average of 80.7 minutes per day. They spent 63.1 minutes in 2014.

Meanwhile, the total population’s average time spent on SNS increased by 5 minutes to 65 minutes a day, according to KISDI’s survey of 9,873 individuals.