Parents tense of their kid's surfeit internet practice

Yashpal SharmaDec 1 2006

University of Southern California has performed a survey based on American community that reveals few facts about the increasing internet tend in the US people. The no of BB connections in America are continuously depositing a hike in US with a leap of 12%. The pull is certainly considerable since last year it was 30% that jumped to 42% this year.

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The current analysis says one in every five American parents believe their kids are using internet excessively. Here are few top facts discovered by survey:

The percentage of young internet-users has gone up to 21% as that was 11% in 2000.

80% of the childes are using internet to get help in their schoolwork, however three-quarters of the parents notify that they haven't find any change in the academic enhancements since their internet exercise.

47% of the adults have suspended internet connection so as to forbid their kid's internet access.

Internet is used by just 27% of cell phone owners for text messaging, photo transmitting and other non-voice functions; the net is exploited more by young users of age group 18-24.

Internet use has grown up to 78% that was 67% in 2000.

Old citizens are the aloof form the internet use while teens showing an active participating in the net diffusion with 99% are the most addicted to the net access.

One more stirring fact is users plug into net for around 14 hours per week that was 9.4 hours in 2000.

Internet usability is day by day increasing that is driving away the internet users from other standard medium like TV and phone accessories. The survey says the internet exercise is breaching their reading and TV watching habits.

The internet is the fast and convenient way to communicate with others and no doubt the excessive internet use is leading a considerable part of community to Second Life. The survey has brought too many astounding facts onto the surface leaving all the people with thousands of quarries in their minds.

Via: cnn

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