The Average Internet User Spends 13 Hours a Week Online

Posted 12/23/2009 at 3:21pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Many years back, a typical internet browsing session only lasted until the jaded user finally wondered, “now which site?” But the Youtubes and the Facebooks have changed all that. Social media and streaming video are among the few technologies that have helped make the internet more riveting, more addictive. A new poll conducted by Harris Interactive shows that people are spending more time on the internet now than a decade ago. The average time spent online has almost doubled in the last decade.

According to the Harris poll, the average American adult internet user spent 13 hours per week on the internet this year, down slightly from last year's average of 14 hours per week. However, last year's average was relatively high on account of the presidential election and a deepening financial crisis.

There has been a significant increase in the percentage of adults accessing the internet from home during the past few years, with the number shooting up to 76% this year from 66% in 2005. The total number of American adults on the internet, though, has remained static at 184 million since 2007.

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