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Americans Using Internet 'Just for Fun'
Ant writes "CNET News.com reports that nearly one-third of American Internet users go online just for fun." From the article: "A survey of 1,931 Internet users conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project in late November and December 2005 found 30 percent of respondents said they went online "for no particular reason" on the previous day. That was up from 21 percent in a November 2004 survey. The survey also showed that 34 percent of online men were surfing for fun on an average day in December, compared with 26 percent of women."
Not necessarily. There are plenty of "reasons" to go online that aren't work-related.
Slashdot, for example, comes to mind (although I've defended my surfing habits at work more than once by claiming Slashdot as a "tech resource"... ^_^).
"Reasons" may be as trivial as checking the weather page or looking up that actor whose name you forgot on IMDB, but they still qualify as "reasons".
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What they mean is 1/3 of 0.0004% of American's use the internet "just for fun".
Didn't you hear?
Fark moved all the Boobies off the main page.
I no longer go online just "for fun", instead it is for Foobies (Fark Boobies)
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
It was in Humor.
have you ever been hit by a Clue by Four?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
seriously, mate, groups can be statistically significant at populations of just over 30. Additionally, you can read the PEW research methods (as performed by Princeton Survey Research Associates International) here.(pdf)
Additionally, nursery is correctly spelled with an "s," and keep your stereotypes of women out of your posts, please, before I burn my bra.