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Internet Users Are More Social Than Non-Users
FePe writes "The UCLA World Internet Project has concluded from a study that Internet users spend more time on social activites than non-users. Many other interesting facts can be seen on the page. For example, in the United States 73.1 percent of men use the Internet compared to 69 percent of woman." Also interesting is how net users watch less television than their offline counterparts. Update: 01/16 03:46 GMT by M : Yep, pretty much the same story as yesterday. To be fair, Cowboyneal did say it was news to him. :)
How delightfully ironic.
Buckethead
Its because of the online dating sites, obviously.
What are they thinking? That we just sit around and read /. all day?
...than non-internet users...
news-to-me dept.
holy double entendre batman.
Social != Taking showers
True story.
i am an internet user and i am not social
so, that study is wrong
slashdot editors, please remove that misleading title. it might make people think this is a reliable source of info
vodka, straight up, thank you!
(geeks are internet users)=> (internet users are super social) => (geeks are the most internet savy) => (Geeks are Socialite GODS)
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
The editors were too busy having a social life perhaps? ;)
What, has some magician sawed this poor woman into pieces, and failed to reattach 31% of her? And, while he desperately Reads The FM on how to complete the trick, she surfs the 'net?
Remember, they're talking about the 73% of the population that sends email around, they're not talking about the hardcore geek population. I don't even think these people should be counted as "internet users" any more than you would call someone who pumps their own gas an auto mechanic.
It surely is.
Go to he-- er, wait, are you sure that's not anti-social?
So why is it I can't seem to locate any of this supposed 69% of women on the Internet?
Oh, I know--they're using a different Internet! I feel much better now.
How social can it be I have read this in eight different online news sources already!!
***I GOT NUTHIN***
Hi, where's the computer dept
Assistant:
Third floor, on your right
Geek:
Oh, do you know if they sell Netgear LN-234STs over there?
Assistant:
Sorry, you should ask the computer dept. people about that
Geek looks at assistant's t-shirt:
Do you know that thinkgeek sell a t-shirt just like this one, with "all your base are belong to us" written on it
Assistant looks at Geek and walks away as fast as possible.
Geek goes to the computer dept. and immediately finds other geeks talking about the new iPod, joins in in their conversation, and together they flood the assistant with questions about the technical specs of all the mp3 players around, and keep trying to persuade him that the iRivers are better because they are firmware upgradeable to support OGG/Vorbis.
A few days later, assistant fill in poll about computer users, and in the Comments section fills in:
A few days later slashdot story appears, claiming that geeks are more communicative than other people.
Hostes alienigieni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est?
After working all day answering people's stupid questions and fixing their computers that they've blown up while trying to do stupid shit, I usually don't want to have anything to do with people once 5pm rolls around, or on the weekend.
I was off from December 19th until January 5th, my longest vacation in years, and I barely left the house. In that time I read 6 novels, wrote some more of the interface for my home automation stuff, played video games until my vision was blurry, and slept (I even set the alarm a few mornings just to have the pleasure of turning it off, rolling over, and going back to sleep).
At the end I actually went 5 days straight without leaving the house for anything. When I got in the car on January 5th to return to work, it actually felt weird to drive.
Summary: Best. Vacation. Ever. I can't wait to do it again in 48 weeks or so.
That's just how it started...I needed a little 'geek' fix now and then. And then a little became more and more, till now a little ain't a little no mo'.
But it's all good. My friend Randy says he's going to show me something called 'crack'. He says it's a thousand times better than the internet. I told him he's never visited stileproject. I'll be back soon with the results.
maybe because more men life pr0n, myself included.
::cough::nerds faking it::cough::
I've only met a couple of women EVER that were into pr0n, well, actual women, not those "online women"
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...my 24.1" LCD monitor has PIP, and I watch TV while I surf. Hate to skew the stats...
Look now, socializing with porn does not count.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Speaking of, how is your mother?
*rimshot*
The internet would be of only passing interest to most (non-academic) men if otherwise.
Exploring ones depravities in a (semi) anonymous environment sure beats the hell out of making your perversions known to the local Adult Shop attendant.
"erm.. yes, i'd like to see your collection of Japanese midget amputee shizer movies please. yes, the ones with the well-hung diarrhetic farm animals..."
Yes. well. you get the picture.
Hey relax fella, you need a rest, guy.