Internet Use Becomes More Purposeful

tacocat writes "An article in the The Christian Science Monitor talks about the changing use of the Internet. They cite a report from The Pew Internet and American Life Project that talks about people Getting Serious Online. The study is continuation of people they have been following already and found that people are using the Internet more often for serious matters and issue of utility, rather then just for fun."

Comments

Serious?

[alexjohns]

I met my wife online a little over 4 years ago. How much more serious than that can you get? What, you're going to die online? Perhaps finding out you got cancer, or that your home town got nuked, or something. I guess that's serious. I dont know about you, but I've been doing serious stuff online for years.

Re:A worthy Newspaper - don't be fazed by the titl

[TopherC]

I just wanted to point out that a lot of info about the Christian Science Monitor is explained here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/aboutus/about_the_monitor .html

This basically explains that the paper is secular, with the goal of unbiased reporting. It was started by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, in 1908. This was done more or less as a response to the "yellow journalism" of the day (much more about that in the above link). So far it has won six Pulitzer prizes for journalism.

- Topher Cawlfield

Usefulness ?

[mirko]

Where were you *before" 1996 ?
Internet is a library, an useful one, it helped me to build an Acorn user community by providing news and progs to the others.
It also helped me as a teacher to prepair my computing classes.
Then in 1995 came win95 which brought the internet to the masses, turning it into a supermarket.
Then came everybody else...
And now, you think it "becomes" useful ?
Actually, for who knows what to expect from such a tool it has always been and will always be useful as it is.