"About 145 million people in America (about 72 percent) use the Internet to do anything from sending e-mail to conducting research to making a telephone call or even purchasing groceries. It seems that my Internet habits follow a trend that has been revealed in a recent report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The Pew study of more than 20,000 men and women over five years shows that men and women use the Internet for very different things. Women make up a larger portion of the population and therefore outnumber men in cyberspace. The study says that 68 percent of men and 66 percent of women go online.

Men are somewhat more intense Internet users, logging in more frequently and spending more time online. This seems to go hand-in-hand with the fact that more men are users of broadband than women. Well, when I had broadband, I was online more often and for longer periods of time because it was faster and therefore more fulfilling. Instant gratification!

The study indicates that women use the Internet to "enrich their existing relationships," while men typically practice solitary pursuits such as reading, furthering their hobbies or playing in fantasy sports leagues.

Women typically go online for e-mail, to ask for advice and to share news, while men tend to use e-mail for business or for forwarding jokes. Both sexes use the Internet to play games, to listen to music, to watch videos and to gamble."


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