The Internet Makes Us Read More, Interact Less
This post was published 2 years 3 months 9 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.According to a survey by Nielsen/Net Ratings people spending time on the internet users are slowly starting to socially withdraw from society.
In 2003, Internet users spent about 46 percent of their time communicating and 34 percent reading online content. Those habits seemed to have reversed in the last four years. From January to May 2007, about 47 percent of users’ time was spent looking at content and 33 percent spent on communicating.
The change in media habits can be attributed to changes in technology over the last four years, according to OPA.
“The increased popularity of video is leading to more time being spent with online content,” according to the OPA reports. Time spent communicating could also be less because more people are using instant messaging (IM), which is quicker than sending e-mail.
Why have real friends when you have have fake online ones? Isn’t life gauged by how many MySpace/FaceBook buddies you have?
“…people spending time on the internet users are slowly starting to socially withdraw from society.”
I’m sorry, but that typo (users) in that particular sentence was really funny for reasons that will only make sense to anyone in the gutter.
There should be a warning: stay away from ALL internet users!