Net users watch less television

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The average Web surfer maintains a more active social life and watches up to
five hours less television per week than non-surfers, according to a
14-country survey including residents of the United States, Great Britain,
Hungary, Chile, South Korea and Macao. "Use of the Internet is reducing
television viewing around the world while having little impact on positive
aspects of social life," said Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center for
Communication Policy at the University of California at Los Angeles, which
organized the study. Internet users, the study says, also read a lot of
books and most believe that most online sources are trustworthy information
sources. The Internet as a social medium was most popular in China,
connecting users with similar political and religious opinions in a country
where religion is banned. Although the study confirmed that the Internet is
more frequently used by the wealthy, in seven of the countries surveyed,
more than 20% of the poorest residents go online.

Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/14/geek.study.reut/index.html