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  • Media Mention

    The Web: Just for Fun

    "The combination of broadband saturation in U.S. homes paired with compelling online content has lead to casual Internet usage. Data released by Pew Internet & American Life Project suggest an increase in Internet users who surf the Web with no sp...

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    Are You Dilly-Dallying on the Internet?

    "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 th...

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    Web surfers just want to have fun
    Information tool? Study says we go online to hang out

    “Jamie Seetho doesn't turn on the television when she gets home from work. She turns on her computer and gets on the Internet.

    "When I do get bored, I don't turn on the TV," the 24-year-old from San Francisco said. "I go onto Friendster, or...

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    The wave of Internet surfing is growing

    “When Lindsey Macias sits down in front of her laptop computer and logs on to the Internet, she has every intention of being productive and getting things done.

    But more times than she'd care to admit, the nursing student is led astray, cli...

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    America's favorite pastime: Web surfing?

    “Jolene Troup finds herself surfing the Web during her downtime at work, whether it be checking her online banking statement or her Myspace mail to playing games or reading up on course descriptions on her school's Web site.

    "I work at a re...

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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.