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Nearly Half of U.S. 'Net Users Post Content

An anonymous reader copies and pastes: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of material available online, according to a report released on Sunday. The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that about 44 percent of the country's Internet users have created content for others to enjoy online." Don't read the blurb - cut straight to the study.

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  1. so thats where... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...half the trash comes from.

  2. I don't believe it. by Odinson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who would post online? Not me!

  3. I wonder... by natrius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do posts made by AC trolls count?

  4. in a related study by Peeet · · Score: 5, Funny

    there's about 800,000 users whose sole purpose seems to be to take that content down, one site at a time...

    And sometimes we even turn on eachother.

  5. Re:Seems low. by woohoodonuts · · Score: 5, Funny

    or set up "Web cams" to allow others to see live pictures.

    and judging from my email... at least half of that 44% is 18 year old HOT & HORNY Amsterdam teens!!!!

    ps... wanna see my webcam? I'm waiting for you.... just go to--.....

  6. Survey Says... by Ray+Radlein · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to the study, 44% of all internet users have contributed something of value to the content of the internet.

    The other 56% argue about vi vs emacs.

  7. Yeah, but we know what the real content is by pdxdada · · Score: 5, Funny

    By the numbers now, if 44% of people surveyed contribute content to the internet and 98% of the internet is porn, than a wopping 43% or about 120 million americans are involved in the porn industry. Statistics are a wonderful thing.

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    Don't mess with the bunny, outsideworld.org
  8. Re:1/2 post, less than 1% quality by Belzu · · Score: 5, Funny

    It becomes the functional equivalent of tossing the English Alphabet at a million monkeys. Shakespeare will NOT emerge from it.