Average Net user now online 13 hours per week

[DKT27]

Average Net user now online 13 hours per week

How much time do you spend online each week? If you're an average Net user, a new poll shows, it's around 13 hours--excluding e-mail.

The Harris Interactive poll, released Wednesday, found that 80 percent of U.S. adults go online, whether at home, work, or elsewhere. Those who surf the Net spend an average of 13 hours per week online, but that figure varies widely. Twenty percent are online for two hours or less a week, while 14 percent are there for 24 hours or more.

The average number of hours that people spend online each week has grown over the years, hovering at 7 hours from 1999 through 2002, 8 or 9 hours from 2003 through 2006, and 11 hours in 2007. The level hit its peak at 14 hours in October 2008--after the global recession had set in and just before the U.S. presidential election.

The jump in time spent in cyberspace likely stems from a few factors, according to Harris. More people are comfortable using the Internet. More of them are shopping and watching TV online. In addition, the number of Web sites and online applications has increased. Harris adds that the recession may also play a role since surfing the Net at home is free (after paying monthly access fees), while going out means spending money.

The age group that spent the most time online per week: 30- to 39-year-olds, at 18 hours.

The total number of U.S. adults on the Internet is 184 million, around 80 percent of the total population, according to the poll. That figure is virtually the same as in 2008 but is a big jump from 1999, when it reached at 56 percent, and from 1995, when the figure was a mere 9 percent.

The number of people who surf the Net at home rose to 76 percent this year, compared with 66 percent in 2005, 46 percent in 1999, and 16 percent in 1996. In 1995, that specific question wasn't even asked.

The Harris poll queried 2,029 people in early July and mid-October.

Here are the poll results:

Source - CNET

[myidisbb]

bias study comcast and at&t paid for????

this does nto include console time online. as in 360 and pc gaming online. it also doesnt include uploading and downloading in the background for p2p and newsgroups. nor programs that backup and update themselves in the dark of the night.

it also doesnt include the use of cellphoens to access the internet ever

[Bizarre™]

@myidisbb:

Indeed ^_^

The net can be accessed even without user intervention.

[DKT27]

13 hours a week online? I'm 13 hours a day online. :lol:

[Night Owl]

13 hours a week online? I'm 13 hours a day online. :lol:

Me too!! :lol:

[Bizarre™]

@DKT27, Night Owl:

You have too much time in your hands... care to share some ^_^

[DKT27]

That's why I come here. To share some time and my experience. :D

Now I have time in my hands. Later in life I'm not sure that I would have time for even killin flies. :lol:

[shought]

Meh, probably a bullshit research...

It might apply for a small proportion of the US, but probably not for the whole US and surely not for the whole world.

Also with all these social networks, forums, blogs and stuff I'm quite sure the average teenager(note: teenager is not between 30-39) spends more time online than the average adult does...

Lot's of questions...

This 'test' is probably way too 'general' to be of any significance, if you ask me.

[Bizarre™]

shought's probably online 24 / 7 :lmao:

How's the meeting with pedobear?

[bashar]

Woot , guess i'm having an addiction then :fear:

the problem is , wherever u go , there would be a need to access the network

if you're on computer , xbox , PS3 , work , home , college ,

this has been a life style u cant forget about , or miss

i dont wanna say i'm online for 24 hours

but surely it's more than 13 hours per day