Posted on 02/17/2006 4:43:04 PM PST by Mr. Brightside
40 Million Just Hang Out Online Each Day
POSTED: 10:46 am EST February 17, 2006
About 40 million Internet users go online just for fun or to pass the time each day, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Some 30 percent of Internet users go online on any given day for no particular reason, just for fun or to pass the time. That makes it one of the most populat online activities and indicates that the online environment is increasingly popular as a place for people to spend their free time, the group said.
Surfing for fun now stands only behind sending or receiving email (52 percent) and using a search engine (38 percent) as typical daily activities. It is in a virtual tie for third with getting news (31 percent).
In a survey in late November 2004, the group found about 25 million people went online on any given day just to browse for fun.
Two-thirds of people in the survey said that they go online sometimes for fun or just to pass the time. Thirty percent said they had done it the day before they were asked.
Thirty-four percent of men said they had done it the previous day, but only 26 percent of women, though the numbers who had ever done it were similar.
Broadband users at home were more likely to just play online that those with a dialup connection.
The group said that, along with greater broadband penetration, part of the reason for leisurely Web surfing is an increase in content. The Google index of Web pages, for example, has grown over 1,000 times in size since its launch in 1998. The number of websites grew from 17 million in the middle of 2000 to 65 million in the middle of 2005.
And what a good idea!
I'll definately second that.
Of course you do, you depend upon your anonymity hiding behind
a screen name to enable you to be such a bloody ass. If you
were using your real name you would be much more civil.
Weenerhead.
Caught!!!
I am probably on an off the internet dozens of times everyday and work.
..checking my email, the weather, News, the TV guide, FR message boards, my 401K, credit card and bank accounts, stocks & gold prices, downloading music, shopping, booking trips, flights, hotels, car rentals, Mapquest, WebMD, Casino sites, and basically an infinite variety of interests.........
I don't think I could stay in the house if I didn't have the internet.
Caught me.
My checks are printed "Wienerhead".
Ya bonehead!
If they checked every 8 hours I got counted 3 times:')
Heh.. now you want cyber fatwahs? (J/K)
It would be exposed and perform miserably... but thats your point. ;o)
And I sure wouldn't be caught dead wasting time responding to them.
I'm looking for a treadmill with a computer:')
I check the saddle club, the breaking news and then the weather.
What I've always said about the internet that makes it superior to, say, television, is that it is interactive. You can tell it what you want and go to find the news/data/chat you want to discuss instead of wading through commercials for a bunch of teletext readers to TELL you what they think you need to know.
Granted, television still has its plusses but if I had to do away with one or the other for the rest of my life, I'd keep my internet and kill my television.
Wake up in the morning:
1) Check e-mail
2)Check the weather
3)Check FR (post)
4)Browse a couple of sites
5)Re check my e-mail
6)Get my lazy bottom out of the chair to start my day and go to work.
Welcome to that club; but I told that to my husband. LOL
Since I got banned at work, sometimes I come home at lunch:')
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