CHICAGOShedding light on how technology increasingly shapes everyday life, a study published Thursday by the American Journal Of Sociologyrevealed that the average American dedicates 97% of theirdayto retrieving six-digit validation codes. Our findings suggest thatU.S. residentsspend roughly 23 hours eachdayor 160 hours every weekattempting to log in to online services, being told they need to check their phone for asix-digit code, and then entering that code into the website or app for verification, said lead researcher Andrew Singh, adding that manyAmericanshave to skip meals and forgo showering in order to find time to read and transfer over the hundreds of codes needed daily to access their medical records, work emails, and food delivery accounts. Theres likely a link here between mostAmericansonly getting 20 or 30 minutes of sleep each night and the amount of their lives now given over to frantically pressing Resend after they fail to receive a particular code, then receiving far too many codes and being unable to figureoutwhich one is still valid. Unfortunately, it seems this problem is only getting worse. Singh added that his study did not even factor in the many hours Americans spend standing up from their laptop and walking over to their phone after remembering they left it in the other room.The post Study: 97% Of Average AmericansDaySpent Retrieving6-Digit Codes appeared first on The Onion.