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.
Hey! .. I'll get my life back in 2018
I told my wife, "As soon as the election is over and I know Bush won, I'll get offline."
That was in 2000.
Well I am not one of them :)
Not me. I don't hang out on a conservative website posting smart-ass comments. No way.
Spells death for Hollywood...and news papers, magazines, and the nightly news..... is this great or what
I think this article describes all of us.
Who else, except us, has time on a Friday night to even notice such a post?
I am not one either, as a matter of fact I ain't even logged on....lol
I surf at work for news, mess with my friends online, peruse FR for news and
insight and comedy and fights with hammerheads.. it surely eats up a lot of my life.
Hell, I'm doing it now.
I think we may be the progenitors of a massive human trend.
I suggest it is time for islam to come onto this field...let's see how it performs!
And, talk on the phone.....VOIP
WTH is that?
The Blackberry prototype?
They're competitors called the Raspberry Ambulator.
Invented by a single Froot Loop.
They too should come onto the field of truth (as if we didn't already know). This field of truth will be the downfall of islam...it cannot withstand rational/clinical/analytical examination.
Islam doesn't have much time left...but it is working feverishly to develop nukes...to find an ace up the sleeve.
And it might, unless the west gets the picture.
I suggest we have about 6 months.
Time to get down to bidness!!!
Yep, its Monster, various company websites, Motleyfool.com, and Free Republic for me.
Ping to #27
Am I logged on???
We do not! Take that back!
And now we've got this:
The company has also warned that allowing Ms. Lyle to proceed with her case could put a strait-jacket on writers and dilute the quality of what Americans see on movies and TV.
The new national past time. Maybe we're in the mainstream after all :-)
I am never on the net.
When I am I use a fake name.
I never post.
When I do I use a fake name.
Anon
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