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Thursday, April 19, 2012

What Americans Do Online: Social Media and Games Dominate Activity


 

Nielsenwire. (2010, August 2). What Americans Do Online: Social Media and Games Dominate   Activity. Retrieved from http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/what-americans-do-online-social-media-and-games-dominate-activity/.
 

Today, about 36 percent of Americans spent their time communicating and networking across social networks, blogs, personal email and instant messaging, according to the Nielsen Company’s research. The topic of this blog is to present the research results on what Americans do online through the Nielsen Company’s research.  The purpose of this study is to show Americans that social networking and playing games online were the top two activities that people in the United States do when accessing the Internet.  This research points out that Americans spends a third of their time online, which is about 36 percent, communicating and networking across social networks, blogs, personal email, and instant messaging.  Even though playing games online beats emailing among Americans’ time on the Internet, emailing is still highly used.  The Nielsen Company collected these information through online categories visited from PC/laptops.  I found this research to be useful due to the information it depicts and how much social media plays huge a role in the lives of Americans nowadays. 

 

 


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