Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
Are You Dilly-Dallying on the Internet?
2/17/2006 | 
Coverage
Mark Glaser, MediaShift PBS
'"What are you doing here, on the web, reading this blog? Is this part of your work, or are you just hanging out, bopping around the web casually letting the URLs fall where they may? According to a recent survey by Pew Internet, more Americans than ever are going online “for no particular reason, just for fun or to pass the time.”
In fact, Pew figures that 30% of web surfers were online for no particular reason on the average day in December 2005, up from 21% who were aimlessly surfing the web on the average day-dreaming day in November 2004.
“Compared to other online pursuits, the act of surfing for fun now stands only behind sending or receiving email (52% of internet users do this on a typical day) and using a search engine (38% of internet users do this on a typical day), and is in a virtual tie for third with the act of getting news online (31% of internet users do this on a typical day),” the report said."
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