I prefer computing comfort.
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.
I sure hope not..............LOL.
Didn't think so...LOL
And to think I was going to ping you to this :)
Are you mocking me? :-)
I have the same problem too....
This Pew group has quit research polling and gone to meddling now......
"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."
I prefer computing comfort.
2003
Pedaling onto the Information Superhighway
Laos villagers to get online with bike-powered PCs
My idea was launched into the psychic universe and has materialised!
"Some of us come here to argue."
I vigorously dispute that claim !!!
What kind of batteries do you use to run that contraption ?
Or do you have an electric generator in a little red wagon towed behind you ?
You should get a Treo 700w like I did with that whizbang high speed wireless internet connection.
No matter where I am the Free Republic is a mere thumb click away.
Next move is getting the internet connection surgically implanted I guess......................
And how many of those get Zotted?
I'm just here for the Ann Coulter pics.
Just kidding! she's really not that great looking anyway ;)
FR, the financial sites and some of my fishing sites sure beat the day time tv my wife watches sometimes on her day off. She is hooked on all those redo the kitchen, the bed room, the family room, the living room and the bath room programs from BBC and America/Canadian outlets.
Gotta go. I have to bid on another postcard...
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