Social Networks Now More Popular Than Email, Report Says
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Internet time not web "sites"
Carlo, maybe I'm missing something, but I just don't think that this is accurate. Neither the article you linked to nor the Nielson study link uses a unit of measure of "site". As another poster pointed out, this would make no sense as many people -- I would guess most people -- don't access e-mail through "sites" i.e. web sites, but instead through e-mail applications.
Here's a quote from the Nielson study at http://www.nielsen-online.com/pr/pr_090309.pdf ...
In spite of the fact that the area of Internet usage which has gained the majority are types of web sites, it seems clear from their own results that Nielson's unit of measure for the study is time, not "sites"
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Re: Internet time not web "sites"
Thanks for the comment... you're right in that I mischaracterized it, but you're not right about the measurements being about time. Nielsen's "popularity" claim is based on based on the percentage of internet users that access the different types of services (see the full report (PDF) for more).
Thanks for keeping me on my toes.
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I actually access Twitter and Facebook on my webtop whenever I log on - it’s my preferred medium for easy interaction with colleagues, clients, and friends. And since I’m already on Twitter and Facebook for social reasons, it gives me one less application that I need to open and weed through.
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