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Nielsen Research: “What Americans Do Online”: Time On Social Networking & Gaming Up; Email & Portals Down

August 4, 2010 by Michael Berkens

According to a study released Monday by The Nielsen Co, entitled “What Americans Do Online”  lookek at the surfing habits of 22,000 Americans.

So What Do Americans Do Online?

36% of their time is spent on social networks, blogs, personal email and instant messaging, which is 43% more time compared with the same month in the prior year.

Online gaming is now right behind social networks, accounting for 10% of all U.S. Internet time.

Email  dropped from 11.5% of time spent to 8.3%; time spent on portals like Yahoo.com and AOL.com  dropped from 5.5% to 4.4%; and instant messaging dropped from 4.7% to 4.0%.

However when it comes to Cell phones, Nielsen study says that email remains the most popular activity with Americans spenting 41.6% of their mobile online time on email, up from 37.4% a year earlier.

For cell phones tiem spent on Web portals came in second with 11.6% share of time spent, just beating out social networking’s which has 10.5% share.

Filed Under: Media

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Dean says

    August 4, 2010 at 1:27 am

    You know those figures are bogus when there is no mention of Porn.

  2. BullS says

    August 4, 2010 at 1:37 am

    and ….5% on real working time.

  3. $$$$$$$$ MY LOW COST PC $$$$$$$$ says

    August 4, 2010 at 7:07 am

    .

    there is no need to do a “research” to discover that everybody are on facebook… 🙂

    .

  4. BusinessWebsites.com says

    August 4, 2010 at 3:12 pm

    As bogus as one may think these numbers are there is important trend date here.
    I personally would like to see individual data for blogging and social networking rather than having them pooled into one.

  5. Poor Uncle says

    August 4, 2010 at 9:49 pm

    @Dean

    I’ve to agree. Porn is probably way up there.


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