Adolescents and adults now spend, on average, more than 64 days a year watching television, 41 days listening to the radio and a little over a week using the Internet. Among adults, 97 million Internet users sought news online last year, 92 million bought a product, 91 million made a travel reservation, 16 million used a social or professional networking site and 13 million created a blog.
…Mr. Rutherfurd said time spent with such media increased to 3,543 hours last year from 3,340 hours in 2000, and is projected to rise to 3,620 hours in 2010. The time spent within each category varied, with less on broadcast television down to 679 hours in 2005 from 793 hours in 2000 and on reading in general, and more using the Internet up to 183 hours from 104 hours and on cable and satellite television.
The New York Times, reporting on data in the 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States
Some weeks NewMexiKen gets in my whole annual quota of 183 hours on the internets.
Was there a catagory for watching TV (or listening to the radio) while surfing the net? I do it all the time.
BTW, I find that reported average of less than half-an-hour a day spent on the internet to be suspiciously low. There must be an awful lot of folks who don’t surf at all to average it out for the ones who spend hours a day at it.