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- llbbl, on 10/11/2007, -1/+53It's better than TV, thats for damn sure.
- Thorpe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+30I hate it when people think I spend too much time on the computer. Yet they seem to understand watching television all night is perfectly fine.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2050% is just an average. People like me give that average a jerk in the right direction and make up for those who don't go online.
- falstaff, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18"Internet Captures 50% of Spare Time" ... and 75% of work time.
- MercedRocks, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18I was wondering where all my free time was going :(
- hrhs556x, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1450%?........... thats it?
- Lionhart, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7lol "visiting websites for personal reasons"
...fap fap fap
81% nice - tdogg241, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7If you consider masturbating "work," you're doing it wrong.
- ninjaSteak, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7I agree, the internets are interactive, you are participating and reading (in instances).
Even if you are watching video, chances are you're watching slim or no commercials. - rhettmaxwell, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7those losers. I spend 50% of my spare time offline...
- punkrockxtian, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6That's what I was thinking! I spend at least 80% of my spare time on the internet. I'd say it depends which season it is though.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I think that's reversed for me.
- justice7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5and the other 50% the internet captures my @work time
- froglars, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Well so much of what people would be doing offline can be done online: phone calls, TV shows, movies, music, read books, watch or read the news, watch the neighbours spend a night with their new hard bondage equipment, etc.
- badave, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I for one welcome our internet overlords.
Guess they didn't need to be welcomed, they came right in and took over. - DatuPuti, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4get firefox with adblock extension and you don't have to worry about ads.
- Alex76, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7For the average Digg User, 80% of that free time is spent surfing porn sites. 20% is spent on Digg. So consequently, Digg accounts for 10% of Spare Time. :-)
- sofaKing812, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5How does looking at porn factor into this?
If you are working on making some baby batter does this count as spending free time online; or does wanking it mean your simply wanking it regardless if what you are looking at is online? These are the type questions that keep me up at night. - directedition, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I spend most of my spare time rewatching Stargate and The Office episodes endlessly and wrestling with Cedega, wondering why Counter Strike can't used sound at the same time as Kaffeine, Totem, or mplayer.
- TDR25, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2And I was starting to wonder why I don't really play video games anymore.
- dafragsta, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I have an internet addiction. I've had an internet addiction since 1995. It's only gotten worse since the drug has gotten better.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3im in ur dayz, killin ur free time.
- thedreaming1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2When I'm at work, I'm on the net. When I'm home, I have to force myself to not be on the net, but I find that no matter how hard I try, I find myself surfing the net. I even have a laptop table next to my chair so when I'm watching tv I can surf the net. Talk about an addiction. The internet has pretty much killed my movie watching experience. I actually have to go to the theater in order to watch a movie, otherwise within the first 5 mins I'm already surfing the net while only listeing to the movie...
- drbogo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1it's missing the cornerstone of the internet... porn
- MWeather, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Wireless works just fine for 480p video.
- RedStateRetard, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Hmm, that only calculates "spare" time.
But it's not including time at work which should bump up the percentage of the total mean.
Hey I'm posting from work right now!
p.s. here's the onion's take on the subject
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29601 - Fingerbob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm not worried about more adverts coming thru my browser - i've got adblock plus, flashblock, all that good stuff.
I'm more worried about ads in my games, ads overlaying my video, commercials spliced before and after any media clips, etcetera.
I heart my internets! - Ratteler, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Imagine that. You provide a resource where people can get information on any subject they can think of, they spend as much time using it as they can.
Gives me the very rare bit of HOPE for mankind. That stupidity isn't our natural state and given the opportunity MOST of us actually want to learn, on our own terms.
Of course... we can see why the Government thinks this is a problem. They've spent the last 70 years making us stupid to keep us under control, and Ho-LY *****!!!!! Now we're wising up at a geometric rate with a tool they have almost no control over.
Enter tiered internet and draconian IP laws. Cause if we can't keep them ALL from getting smarter, at least we can the poorest ones in their place. - toxiclove999, on 10/11/2007, -0/+150% of time on BROADBAND? I'm on Dialup and spend all of my spare time (a LOT) online. Generally the whole 48 hours of my weekend ;)
- syafthegeek, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Well it's good for all internet addict like me ;)
- KSUdesigner, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I think the main reason why the online advertising spending is such a small percentage of overall advertising spending is simply because online advertising is far cheaper than any other means of advertising. Just last week my boss had me in a meeting to discuss producing a direct mail piece to advertise the company. I told him it was a bad idea because it would cost us $1,500 to put out that mailing (the same type of mailing we put out 3 months ago and barely profited from), when we could simply start an internet campaign for far cheaper, targeting a much wider audience. The CEO gives us an advertising budget and we're certainly going to use it all, so we will still in other areas, but now we have room in our budget to get a full page ad in a magazine instead of a half page ad.
I think advertisers are doing a pretty effective job of allocating their expenses. Ads are on nearly every site these days. What advertisers really need to do is learn how to effectively advertise on the internet to the audience that you want. - Twango, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Beats running away from home and signing onto a ship headed for mysterious lands as a cook and cabin boy.
- adz999, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Work - 100% and spare time is only spare if im not doing anything, which never happens becuase as soon as i feel a down time coming on i pick up my notebook off the floor, cap the torrents and start surfing :D
- The_Dude, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Hardly use my broadband at home. 3 19inch LCD's at work with internet and a light workload.
- g00ee, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Actually I spend so much time online at work that I really only use internet for downloading/mapquesting etc at home
- kuukie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The internets are taking too much free time? There's a solution for that.
1) On your laptop, unplug the cable or turn wifi off ... or
2) Set a time-frame on your router (easily done if it's running Linux) ... or
3) If there's really something that you're constantly referring to online, consider mirroring it with wget on your hard-drive for offline (and faster) access (Wikipedia and pages of your school/university/company come to mind). - slapthemonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Sure Internet deaddiction centres or therapies would be required soon.
- resta6, on 01/12/2009, -0/+0the only reason its 50%, is that in order to watch TV(clear pictures, big size) and all, you need to run a 60 foot cable to your computer and get a good graphics card. When you can watch TV live in good quality and w/o any buffering problems, and without a huuuge ass cable running through, that # will sky rocket
- timusca, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1And 90% of that 50% is looking at porn.
- seandfeeney, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Marked as inaccurate... the internet take up more like 90% of my spare time
- echo26, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Only 50%? I spend at least double that on the net doing nothing...
...And double that again when NOT into my spare time... It's called intersomnia... I don't eat, sleep.... just surf.... - Fingerbob, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2"As more of the population goes online and there are more marketing channels, it will be imperative for the entertainment industry to know how to effectively allocate marketing and advertising dollars."
typical marketeering wankspeak.
I use the internet more than TV because TV is awash with advertising, and it pisses me off. Start filling my internet experience with more advertising, and i'll find somewhere else to go, -again-. - ikesauto, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0froglars - I like your comment, you are so right.
- lovelinux, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0I guess all my free time is consumed by Internet and mostly by google like those on orkut, igoogle, gtalk etc.
along with some useful time also.
I think this count should be 50% of overall time i have??? - NanoStuff, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Amateurs.
- Icecream, on 10/11/2007, -8/+4%50 of spare time and %99 of time I have allocated for assignments and family
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0internet is king
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