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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Visiting social networks and social media websites is taking up more and more of the internet users’ online time – so says a study that The Nielsen Company, global leader in measurement and information, has published on Monday According to the document, 36% of the time spent online by the average internet user is used for social networking, blog reading or personal messaging.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">An average American internet user spends about 6 hours every day on the social web. This has grown the consumption of movies, news, videos and sports articles.</P><BR><BR></DIV>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The research also shows that people of older age, around their 50s, are spending more and more time online – twice as many Americans of this age have visited social web sites than 18 year old youngsters. This shows that the online audience is growing older.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The rise of interest in social networks boosted the audience of the social games. The study shows that social gaming (with Farmville leading) have overtook personal e-mail as the second most popular online activity, as half of all American internet users spend their time online by gaming.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Another of the Americans’ favorite online pastime is video streaming. On average, Americans have viewed over three hours of video streaming last month. E-mail and instant messaging usage has declined, but it did not disappear. E-mailing takes up 8% of the Americans’ online time, and instant messaging 4%. E-mailing the favorite activity of those who connect to the internet using their smartphones – 42% of their online time is spent with this activity, followed by accessing portals such as Yahoo or AOL.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Internet use has shifted toward social networking in the last year, contributing a great deal to the growth of web sites such as Facebook or Twitter, and causing social gaming to become one of the most profitable online activities.</P><BR><BR>Source: <A style="COLOR: #003399" href="http://www.providingnews.com/internet-users-spend-more-and-more-time-on-social-networks.html#ixzz0vSUH58f0">http://www.providingnews.com/internet-users-spend-more-and-more-time-on-social-networks.html#ixzz0vSUH58f0</A><BR></DIV> </body>
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