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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. :)
What are they thinking? That we just sit around and read /. all day?
Of course there's more men on the internet than women. There's more male oriented porn than female oriented porn out there.
SR.
Like we come here for the articles?!?!
We all come here to socialize and share ideas.
Yes, even the trolls.
This is social.
Sure I go out with friends and family several times per week... but this is a form of socialization as well.
We all need a little geek "fix" every once in a while.
No shock here.
AC
Online people may spend more overall time in "social activities" - but a lot of these social activities probably don't really count. Is someone who spends 6 hours a week in a chat room socially better off than someone who spends 5 hours a week hanging out with friends at a mall?
Another point to mention: I watch TV at least as many hours as I am on my computer. Why? All of the rooms that I have computers in also have TVs in them, and I always have a TV on in the background when I'm on the computer.
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If slashdot "subscribers" get to see the stuff before the fact, why not let them vote a story a dupe BEFORE it's posted to the site?
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I mean, it could just be a delay of 30 seconds for each vote until a certain threshold is reached, but christ! It's almost as bad as the trolls sometimes.
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~ Eric
(geeks are internet users)=> (internet users are super social) => (geeks are the most internet savy) => (Geeks are Socialite GODS)
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The editors were too busy having a social life perhaps? ;)
It is true... We have got so much more communication of course.. We can talk VoIP/IRC IM email to our hearts content. If anything computers / internet has made it cheaper to communicate with people we would not normaly communicate with. Only for the cost of ISP charges.. which usualy works out cheaper than dialing up some one on your home phone. Is this story a suprize. Not for those of us that are used to it.. Its the uneducated general public that have been misinformed that believe that computers cause you to be anti-social.. Well thats my 2 cents.. I am sure there will be people that dissagree
Perhaps if he'd read the story when it was posted yesterday it wouldn't be.
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.
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