Putting in the Hours
Written by Galia Myron Friday, 08 January 2010 16:52
We spend more and more time online every year. Is this good, bad or neither?
Adults are spending increasing hours online with every passing year, reveals a Harris report that says people over the age of 18 are online an average of 13 hours a week. One in five (20 percent) of adult Internet users are online for only two hours or less a week while one in seven (14 percent) are spending 24 or more hours a week online. Hours spent online have increased from 7 hours in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, to between 8 and 9 hours in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2007, it increased to 11 hours. Last year (after the financial crisis broke and before the presidential election) Internet users were online for 14 hours a week, double what it was from 1999 to 2002, says Harris. What does the trend toward increase Internet usage mean?
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