Exactly, there are a ton of different things you can use the internet for. Perhaps this study would have been more interesting if they tried to place the internet users into certain categories, based on what web sites or internet-enabled applications they commonly use (gaming, reading/research, chatting etc). That would probably be very difficult because there is a lot of overlap between different categories of users.
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Exactly, there are a ton of different things you can use the internet for. Perhaps this study would have been more interesting if they tried to place the internet users into certain categories, based on what web sites or internet-enabled applications they commonly use (gaming, reading/research, chatting etc). That would probably be very difficult because there is a lot of overlap between different categories of users.