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. :)

Comments

Oh my

[iswm]

How delightfully ironic.

Re:Oh my

[1u3hr]

from the news-to-me dept.

Perhaps if he'd read the story when it was posted yesterday it wouldn't be.

'course!

[pumpknhd]

What are they thinking? That we just sit around and read /. all day?

Internet users also have worse memory

[Anonymous Coward]

...than non-internet users...

w417....

[Deraj DeZine]

Social != Taking showers

all geeks use the internet

[the_2nd_coming]

(geeks are internet users)=> (internet users are super social) => (geeks are the most internet savy) => (Geeks are Socialite GODS)

Re:DUPE!

[Adam9]

The editors were too busy having a social life perhaps? ;)

"internet users"

[senatorpjt]

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.

Social?

[newt_sd]

How social can it be I have read this in eight different online news sources already!!

more social or more desperate?

[cribb]

Obvious computer Geek walks into local mall wearing a t-shirt, and after getting lost and fighting a bit with himself decides to actually talk to the shop assistant:
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:

They ask a lot of questions, talk way too much, and never buy anything. and what's with this "Does it run on linux" question, what is Linux in the first place?

A few days later slashdot story appears, claiming that geeks are more communicative than other people.

Re:Why is this a shock?

[asparagus]

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.