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We are wasting our time online

As you read this - online, naturally - reflect on the results of this survey by Pew Research Centre, as reported on culturemap.

"Are you sitting down? Because you're in for a shock: research shows that people go online for — gasp — no reason at all. Can you believe it?

The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project released a report on Friday proving that researchers spent an entire month wasting the time of 2,260 American adults to determine that now, more than ever, people are "going online just for fun and to pass the time."

In these days of Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Wikipedia, LIFE photo archives, online books, news sites, YouTube, Vimeo, Hulu, online stock trading, blogs on everything from fashion to finances, gossip sites and gaming sites, dating sites and porno sites, etcetera, etcetera — the options for diversion are positively infinite.

When asked whether they ever go online for no particular reason, 81 percent of adults 18 to 29 answered "yes."
So it's actually surprising that only 53 percent of adults ages 18 to 29 answered in the affirmative to the question, "Did you go online yesterday for no particular reason, just for fun or to pass the time?"

When asked whether they ever go online for no particular reason, 81 percent of adults 18 to 29 and 53 percent of all respondents (18 to 65 and older) answered "yes." That's more like it."

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