People Now Spend Twice As Much Time On The Internet As Watching TV

NOTE: This is a good reason for ministries to utilize as many areas of the internet as possible, i.e. website, podcasting, video, e-mail. The James Croft Evangelistic Association utilizes the internet in various ways.

People now spend twice as much time surfing the Web as they do watching TV, according to new research from IDC.

IDC surveyed nearly one thousand Internet users for the survey. They found that:

• The Internet is the medium on which online users spend the most time (32.7 hours/week). This is equivalent to almost half of the total time spent each week using all media (70.6 hours).
• People spend twice as much time on the Internet as they spend watching television (16.4 hours).
• People spend eight times as much time on the Internet as they spentd reading newspapers and magazines (3.9 hours).

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