Brits online for 30 hours a week
- Thu, 1 Oct 2009
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Research has found that the average Brit spends 30 hours per week online.
On an typical working day, many of us will spend two hours online for work purposes and three hours browsing for leisure, according to the report from uSwitch.com.
The survey of 2,690 UK adults also found that the average Brit spends three hours online a day at the weekend too.
Younger adults, aged between 18 and 24, spent as much as 45 hours a week on the web, uSwitch said.
Part of the reason that we spend so much time online, the report said, was the increasing number of services that the UK's broadband network enables us to use.
Jason Glynn, communications expert at uSwitch.com, said: "Broadband is rapidly becoming a necessity - as important to our quality of life as gas or electricity."
But he warned that not everyone had the same level of access to the web.
"We are also seeing growing signs of a 'digital divide' and the risk of social exclusion for those who are unable or unwilling to go online.
"Some groups, such as the elderly, are in danger of being left behind - more work needs to be done to encourage greater take-up among these groups, who could otherwise be left disadvantaged," Glynn said.
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October 01 17:28
Ryan Emmett
I easily spend 30 hours+ on the web every week, but hardly of that while in work, because access is severely restricted. Many sites e.g. Facebook, Twitter are blocked completely and playing games online (even chess!) is sadly not allowed.
October 01 20:13
Carl Barron
Well is it any wonder we surf the net in preference to watching TV Adds all day and night because that’s what you get adds,adds, and more adds. So called Free-View is nothing but adds, except for BBC.
It’s very difficult to find any good quality programs, so I have more or less given up watching TV, you keep it.
Signed Carl Barron Chairman of agpcuk