Why don't anyone go outside and play?
Since the internet became mainstream less than 20 years ago, faith in traditional institutions and consumption of traditional media has also been displaced by faith in newer, digital institutions and consumption of newer, digital media, according to the 15th annual Digital Future Report recently produced by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future.
In the years since the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future published its first Digital Future Report in 2000, the internet has evolved from a secondary medium to an essential component of daily life.
Over the course of that time:
- Overall internet penetration has increased from 67 to 92 percent.
- Total hours per week online has steadily increased from 9.4 to 23.6.
- Internet usage at home has risen from 3.3 to 17.6 hours per week.
[...] Perhaps the largest change affecting our online behavior over the life of the report was the introduction of the iPhone and other smartphone technologies in 2007, which increased the internet's always on—and always with us—technology capabilities.
Since 2010 alone:
- People who use their phone to access the internet has skyrocketed from 23 to 84 percent.
- Use of smartphone email has nearly quadrupled from 21 to 79 percent.
- The use of mobile apps increased from 49 to 74 percent.
- GPS location service use has gone from 12 to 71 percent.
- The percentage of people who stream music on their phone has increased from 13 to 67 percent.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:23AM (2 children)
how much of this usage is driven by wage slaves being "contactable" at all hours, vs people streaming the latest must-watch show?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday January 24 2018, @01:38PM
And thats just the pr0n webm files! I really should look into a career in stand up comedy, or maybe not.
Seriously though, only about a third of the population is employed in any form and is paying for and carrying the other two thirds, so stats like "17 hours per week" would imply if its solely or mostly work at home for free, thats something like 60 hours per week per every employed american, or more likely if its the half the population who COULD work at home (which is an optimistic fraction...) that would imply 120 hours per week per employed workable at home american. So probably almost entirely binge watchers.
I had the joy of catching the flu last week, and the flu is the only thing that makes me binge watch amazon prime (which I "need" for free shipping and the video is a nice free addon). So last time I had the flu was the last season of battle star galactica reboot, and I watched the whole season, and this time around I watched the first half of "The Sopranos" which I'd never seen. Not really all that good, not gonna bother watching the rest.
Looking at the younger generations my daughter "listens" to all her music on youtube and physical media, paid streaming services, and legacy radio is dead to her and her little friends. My son watches somewhat more varied youtube chewing gum for the mind type of stuff, but the ratio is about the same. Products like newspapers and magazines are as foreign to modern kids as clay tablets, I mean I don't subscribe to them but I at least have them on my radar, but the next generation doesn't even consider them worthy of making jokes about them, for example.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:30PM
My internet use has skyrocketed since we cut the cord. We're just using it to watch TV, though, so from my perspective nothing has actually changed.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:31AM (4 children)
I do that much every day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:14AM (2 children)
You only can get 17 hours per day of internet use from home if you are at home at least 17 hours per day. Most people aren't.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:36AM
Telework and universal basement income is the future.
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Wednesday January 24 2018, @09:06PM
What if you have a robot that uses the internet for you while you are out? That's the future, if not the present.
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(Score: 2, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:20AM
I turned my phone off for 4 days in May. When I went to the Middle East and Israel. Believe me, it wasn't easy, those 4 days felt like FOREVER!
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:40AM (5 children)
The article claims "the internet became mainstream less than 20 years ago" but Netscape and Yahoo were founded in 1994.
(Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Wednesday January 24 2018, @01:41PM
The times before they were publishing reports, clearly nobody cared about it, because they weren't publishing reports.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday January 24 2018, @01:50PM (1 child)
http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm [internetworldstats.com]
Global Internet users:
December 1998 - 147 million - 3.6%
June 2017 - 3,885 million - 51.7%
http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/internet-broadband/ [pewinternet.org]
U.S. Internet use:
2000: 52% of U.S. adults
2016: 88% of U.S. adults
U.S. home broadband use:
3/31/2000: 1% of U.S. adults
3/1/2001: 6% of U.S. adults
11/6/2016: 73% of U.S. adults
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:04PM
And how much of that is fibre to the premises? Not much. Real Internet isn't mainstream even now. Look at the colossal cockup the NBN turned into, for instance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:40PM (1 child)
And Google didn't start until 1998. Can you even imagine an Internet without Google? They had one, but it was radically different what we have now.
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Wednesday January 24 2018, @09:11PM
One might have had to search for ftp sites on bulletin boards (the cork kind), if not bathroom stalls. There was also usenet, with topics sorted by genre. At some point, there was Alta Vista, but how good was that site, really? There's no way to tell...
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(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday January 24 2018, @02:12PM (3 children)
When working I'm always referring to online resources. I'm often streaming music. When learning something new I spend hours on google. While things compile I'm constantly refreshing a few websites.
That said, I don't have a facebook, instagram, twitter, nor any other social media.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @03:06PM (2 children)
The elites want us to be unable to access anything except Facebook and Twitter. There is a reason the lamestream propaganda outlets have been acting like Facebook and Twitter are the only games on the internet, as though there is nothing else to the internet. They are conditioning the masses to accept an internet that is only Facebook and Twitter.
You seem to be using the internet as it was meant to be used. You won't like the internet the elites want you to have. TFA touches net neutrality so hopefully the rest of what I wrote won't be too off-topic.
The government censorship apparatus will sidestep the Constitution by being voluntary on the parts of Facebook and Twitter. Without net neutrality, ISPs can now move forward with creating packages where the package that gives you Facebook, Twitter, and perhaps Steam, Instagram, and Reddit is the one that the wage slaves can afford and the package that gives you routes to unapproved subnets and services will be prohibitively expensive, except for Inner Party members.
And we'll all tell each other how doubleplusgood it is to be Murcan. I guarantee that these 17 hours per week are spent on the "social" internet the elites want us corralled in, not the free internet you and I know and love. The free internet will be found in darknets, and the vast majority of people won't even look up from Facebook and Twitter long enough to realize what was lost from the clearnet.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:34PM (1 child)
There is a reason the lamestream propaganda outlets have been acting like Facebook and Twitter are the only games on the internet, as though there is nothing else to the internet. They are conditioning the masses to accept an internet that is only Facebook and Twitter.
So the "lamestream media" is telling their own customers they don't exist? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense...
If your conspiracy theory needs to ignore the desire for money then it probably needs a bit of work...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @08:03PM
Ah, sorry. I'm still working on the presentation of this conspiracy theory (which will unfortunately not include the weather war).
I meant to include the "lamestream media" along with Facebook and Twitter. Perhaps I could list it as "Facebook/Twitter/Google News/MSN/etc." I'd like to set up a dichotomy between "lamesteam media" as propaganda outlets on the one hand and sources that appear to have credibility yet are excluded from Google News/MSN/etc (WSWS/DemocracyNow/CommonDreams/etc) on the other hand. In this dichotomy, "fake news" in the sense of Breitbart/InfoWars/Drudge Report/etc would fall under propaganda outlet.
Does my dichotomy of "propaganda outlets" and the opposite (maybe we can call "suppressed sources," but I must admit ignorance of lingo used by anti-war activists in the 60s who likely had a better term) make sense?
(Score: 5, Funny) by janrinok on Wednesday January 24 2018, @02:42PM
Probably for the same reason that nobody writes properly any more.... "Why doesn't anyone write properly any more?"