Internet Time spent :
One late night, my friend and I were talking about how the other seems to be on Facebook almost every minute of their waking day. How did we come to this conclusion? We were “poking” each other on Facebook. I sent him a “poke” and within seconds, I get the “poke” right back. And sometimes I would be the one who responded within seconds. The week later, he sends me this article, claiming it’s meant for me.
And I guess it may be true. But how do these people conduct these surveys? Do they factor in that some people leave tabs open of different sites? Currently I have my email, Facebook, CNN and some articles for a research paper open on tabs. I also have my instant messenger opened on the side of my desktop. And now that Facebook and other social mediums display some kind of notification on the tabs, to let us know that we have a message or a new comment, etc. And since social networks are a more instant and wider form of communication, it’s no wonder we spend most of our time on the Internet on it.
I was really surprised to see how the percentage between social networks has changed from 2009 to 2010. Pretty much everything else stayed the same but social networks increased by 43%. I think this shows that we rely to much on what is going on in everyone’s lives through a social networks or a blog. You would think that you would want to socialize outside of the social network and technically spend more time with “real people” and hear people voices, but according to this we don’t. I think this big change in numbers deals with how social networks have become more popular within the last few years. I believe its a trend that everyone wants to be part of, and if you can find all of your friends together in one same page, then a lot more people are going to do it because it makes their lives easier on how to connect with other people. It gives you information that you thought your friend will never share with you, but are posting so the whole world can see. Its a way to keep in contact and see how everyone is doing with the click of a button. This is why social networking is so popular nowadays.
-Armenis Perez