[freespirited]

The study, titled "What Do Americans Do on the Internet?"

Why didn't they contact me? The answer is "avoid liberals."

[SevenofNine]

Yeah I feel so unwanted on this article

I think I am socialize if you talk about FR and surf internatiioal news wire

I think I am normal LOL!

I think Freepers are normal

it is DU crowd that not normal

[REDWOOD99]

Less TV. It's a sign of the decline of civilization.

[hiredhand]

This sounds like a vain attempt of the MSM and the left to discredit the "net". As with all things that they can't succede in harnessing which work against them, they attempt to destroy.

I don't give them high odds at succeding. What do they know about "socialization" anyway?!

[Musket]

Oh goodie, I finally get to rant about this: Cable has really gone down the toilet.

Discovery Channel is now the Monster Garage Channel.

The Learning Channel is now the Home Makeover Channel.

The Travel Channel is now the World Poker Tour Channel.

Of course I don't watch this crap.

[BigSkyFreeper]

When you consider the garbage that's on TV these days, this comes as no surprise.

[SweetCaroline]

I find TV very boring and much too much liberal!

[elli1]

The 'group of political scientists' needs to broaden their definition of 'socialization' because hanging out at places like FR (note that I think of FR as a 'place') is a form of socializing IMO.

[xm177e2]

"People don't understand that time is hydraulic," he said, meaning that time spent on the Internet is time taken away from other activities.

People do understand just how stupid rich liberals think they are.

[dighton]

"You can't get a hug or a kiss or a smile over the Internet."

Not entirely false -- it's better in the flesh -- but not entirely true.

[Redcloak]

Does posting on FR count as socializing?


For that matter, does reading in the bathroom count as multitasking?












And what the heck is "cheese food" anyway?!?

[Libertarian444]

[LdSentinal]

The more time spent on the Internet, the less time to be brainwashed by Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Ted Koppel, Chris Matthews, CNN, MSNBC, etc.

[Coleus]

The end of the MSM.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

"You can't get a hug or a kiss or a smile over the Internet."

((((((HUG)))))) *MMMWAAH!* < :D < :P

[Graybeard58]

[antiunion person]

The major media networks must have sponsored this research. Sounds to me that the more a person is on the Internet, the less garbage is ingested from networks. Also, with sites like FR, we are likely to hear and see the truth, not the liberal truth. I will always remember what my drill instructor in the U.S. Army said to me. There are three ways of doing things, 1: The wrong way (liberal), the right way (conservative) and the Army (inconclusive) way. Pick your favorite choice and do what you need to do.

[thulldud]

Respondents were asked to create detailed diaries of how they spent their time during six randomly selected hours of the previous day.

So nobody reported looking at p0rn? (After all, for some people, that IS the internet. And nothing about file swapping either!)

Makes me wonder why I bothered to read this article. Although, I wouldn't complain if internet p0rn just disappeared for lack of demand, but I'm not disposed to believe that it has done so without proof.

The "elephant in the room" strikes again.

[billybudd]

Oh jeez, not another one of these liberal media types spouting about how the internet is for geeks and losers and other asocial people.

[Political Junkie Too]

This makes me long for the good old days when they complained that Major League Baseball was suffering because boys were playing Nintendo instead of sandlot ball, like they were supposed to.

-PJ

[BJungNan]

Better than TV if you ask me. And if you want news days ahead of the regular media, FR is the place.