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Internet Use Cuts Socializing Time
Sammy at Palm Addict writes "A new survey published in the New York Times states that using the internet has seriously cut into our socializing time. We spend less time watching TV and more time using the internet and following up email. 'The survey found that use of the Internet has displaced television watching and a range of other activities. Internet users watch television for one hour and 42 minutes a day, compared with the national average of two hours.'"
Television is a kind of socialization/socializing?! WTF?!?!!
"It's a bit of a two-edged sword," said Nie. "You can't get a hug or a kiss or a smile over the Internet." Many people are still more inclined to use the telephone for contact with family, he said.
I didn't know you could get a hug or a kiss or a smile over the phone. Time to start dialing those 900 numbers.
Free XBox, PS2
Or am I missing something?
Nope, Captain Obvious needs a paycheck too!
Thanks to Instant Messaging...
omg lol kthxbye
We can only presume the pages of the report are stuck together..
From th article:
According to the study, an hour of time spent using the Internet reduces face-to-face contact with friends, co-workers and family by 23.5 minutes, lowers the amount of time spent watching television by 10 minutes and shortens sleep by 8.5 minutes.
Looks like a good way to gain about 18 minutes/hour...
What I wonder about is how the NYT survey would have counted people like me.
Last night, I was playing World of Warcraft while marathon-watching the Season 1 episodes of "Tru Calling" on DVD using the eMac that sits next to my game PC.
So, are multi-taskers like me counted as "on the Internet for five hours", "watching TV for five hours", or "both"?
If "both", then I managed to squeeze 10 man-hours of recreation into the time from 8:00 PM to 1:00 AM. Talk about productivity! w00t!
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
You've never had arguments over who should be in control of the remote, whether or not the sound is too loud or too soft, whether or not the person in control of the remote should flip back to the main program because the ads are probably about up, etc?
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
Yea...it's strange like that. You can talk about a TV show, but when you try to talk to someone about a forum discussion they just look at you weird.
Or is it just me?
At least in finland porn is often called hydraulics. Fluids and pumping motion after all. Except in some japanese flicks.
'Once scientists, even the dim-witted social scientists, get muzzled, the Western Civilization is finished.' - oldhack
I recently struck it up with a very nice man from Nigeria...
I knocked on the front door at a friend's house once. The door opened and the whole family (minus the one who had answered the door) was sitting on or around the sofa watching TV. They were all just staring, zombie-like, at the screen.
It was so cute!You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
you insensitive clod!
Oh yeah, definitely. I'm way too busy talking to people in IMs, e-mails, message boards, chat rooms, and IRC, to socialize with anyone.
I am NOT a number! I am a - oh wait, I'm number 761710. Look! 761710!
1 hour 42 minutes instead of 2 hours? That's like just saying that internet users are smart enough to use their computers during all the commercial breaks.
I own a TV and its only use is DVD playback. No rabbit ears. No cable.
The hour a day at the gym with 10 sets tuned to 10 channels has done nothing to make me want to hook up either. God bless the iPod.
And since when has watching TV been considered "socializing"? Vegitating would be a better word.
Yes, it's true. This man has no dick.
A "TV" is the screen to which you plug videogame systems.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Maybe the researcher is confusing socialization with inprinting.
Communication medieval ages (before radio)
1. Hoardes watch church/political leader (talking head) say NI and they like it ! Hell yeah !
2. Hoardes start saying NI by imitative imprinting
3. NI NI NI NI NI NI !
Communication renaissance (after telephone)
1. Hoardes still do the above
2. But now they also use telephone and keep on saying NI NI NI NI !
Communication pre golden age (TV and radio )
1. Rich ones become talking heads (initial private and government TV)
2. NI NI NI (BUY) NI NI NI (VOTE ME)
Communication golden age (internet)
1. Much more people become talking heads !
2. NI NI NI (BUY) NO NO NO NO DON'T !
3 ????
4. Profit.
Massive jailarity chaos ensues, welcome to meme era. All your internet belongs to us.