Interesting survey

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: bignateyk
eh.. id consider myself to be pretty tech savvy, but to be honest, I really dont use the internet for anything important.

Most of the time I spend online is just surfing the web, talking on AIM, downloading por..video, etc...

Important things I use it for like banking, investing, etc..., probably only add up to like 1% of my internet usage, and even then, its just a convenience. There really is nothing the internet is actually a necessity for, at least in my life.

age is probably an important factor in this.

How is age a factor of 'necessity'? I could be misinterpreting your meaning. Anyway, I'm not that old (30) and have been online since I used my 300 baud modem and C64 to connect to the local BBS's. I feel the same way as bignateyk in that anything I do online could be done offline and the vast majority of time I spend online is for leisure. I bank, do some shopping, online bill pay, do some research on items I will buy B&M and that's really about it outside of leisure activities. I can't even think of other necessary functions I would need the internet for.

By the way, what is considered 'useful' usage in terms of the article? I may have overlooked this part of the article.

Age is important...obviously someone in there teens may answer low use to online banking and trading threads (except on ATOT where every 17 year old is an active day trader).....

I am 36, I had a //e to connect to BBS's, but mostly I explored X.25 and places like altgiers/lutz/QSD/tchh.

One can say you can do most things offline, but it's way more efficient to pop online to pay , order, transfer funds, etc than drive all over creation (cutting into that same leisure time).

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: zinfamous
That's assuming that porn is useless. I beg to differ....

porn was represented. However, the number admitting to it probably skewed the statistics.

Most people will say I never have looked at porn on the internet. They will also state, oh I have seen a couple pictures 'like that' in other conversations.

 

[vi edit]

I'm almost 30. Grew up with cell phones, laptops, internet access, lived through the digital assistant/PDA upstart era ect.

Regardless of how technologically advanced we get, there simply is no substitute for shaking hands in real life and a good old fashioned pencil and paper.

There are things that digital devices and "online" communication will never replace.

And if they do...I hope I'm long dead.

 

[Mucho]

My guess would have been 95% just use the internet for goofing off.

 

[ElFenix]

how the hell did having your own page become web 2.0?

 

[Kelvrick]

People are like monkeys. You get older people higher on the ladder/foodchain and they'll blackberry, text, vpn in and use networks all over the place to do their job. Pop an error screen up there or introduce an option/variable and they'll completely shut down and call IT.

So polls like this just aren't very accurate.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: bonkers325
If you remove all the porn from the internet, there will be only one website left and it will be called "Bring Back The Porn!"

Surprisingly enough, the internet is no longer for porn; or at least, not just for porn.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: bonkers325
If you remove all the porn from the internet, there will be only one website left and it will be called "Bring Back The Porn!"

Surprisingly enough, the internet is no longer for porn; or at least, not just for porn.

'tis a dark day for mankind...


ahoy...

 

[Kelvrick]

The article also mentions an interesting tidbit about porn?that there?s a lot going on in peer-to-peer networks, so much of what could be counted as porn wasn?t.

I would think data wise, pron probably still has everything else beat. Damn those torrent sties that make you maintain positive ratios. I don't remember anywhere else where I've also uploaded 60+gbs.

 

[alkemyst]

i would say illegal movie downloads outweighs porn.

 

[Exterous]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: bonkers325
If you remove all the porn from the internet, there will be only one website left and it will be called "Bring Back The Porn!"

Surprisingly enough, the internet is no longer for porn; or at least, not just for porn.

Crap! WE HAVE BEEN SLACKING OFF PEOPLE!!!! But it we try harder we can put porn a safe margin ahead of everything else again. I know we can do it!

 

[RossMAN]

I use the internet to communicate, entertain and most importantly making $$$