TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Internet Use Said to Cut Into TV Viewing and Socializing

Internet Use Said to Cut Into TV Viewing and Socializing

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:43:30 -0500

By JOHN MARKOFF

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29 - The average Internet user in the United
States spends three hours a day online, with much of that time devoted
to work and more than half of it to communications, according to a
survey conducted by a group of political scientists.

The survey found that use of the Internet has displaced television
watching and a range of other activities. Internet users watch
television for one hour and 42 minutes a day, compared with the
national average of two hours, said Norman H. Nie, director of the
Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society, a research
group that has been exploring the social consequences of the Internet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/technology/30internet.html?ex=1262408400&en=5c26db6b02b40db5&ei=5090

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