Oh, if I understand this correctly (and I use TMF logic), at this rate, when amzn grows even more popular there will be no one left in the planet who actually buys books, since we'll all be too busy just point and clicking away. I sure hope that cd market goes well!
July 16, 1998, Thursday
Section: Circuits
Survey Finds TV Is Major Casualty of Net Surfing
By MATT RICHTEL
MOST of us know that Internet use is up. But what is down?
With only 24 hours in a day, is cyberspace stealing time from sleeping, stepping on the Stairmaster, watching television or working?
The answer, according to a new survey, is all of the above.
The activity taking the biggest hit is television- and VCR-watching, according to the survey by Strategis Group, a Washington-based
research firm that studies patterns in telecommunications use. Nearly 65 percent of 500 Net users surveyed said they had sacrificed
time in front of the TV for time in front of the computer monitor. Forty-eight percent said they spent less time reading, and 29 percent
said they slept less.
The survey results, issued at the end of June, seemed to validate a trend reported in a similar poll last year by a New York research
company, Cyber Dialogue. It found that in addition to spending less time with their television sets, 22 percent of Internet regulars were
also spending less time making long-distance phone calls. Cyber Dialogue further found that 16 percent of Net surfers were spending
less time reading newspapers; an identical percentage spent less time reading magazines. |
