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Millions more caught in the web

Date: 2006-11-30

Internet use is spiralling, with the average surfer now online for more than 11 hours a week, according to a survey.

From downloading films and music, to running their finances and organising their social lives, Britons are increasingly turning to the web.

While TV viewing showed no rise last year, surfing the web grew by six per cent in Britain in the past 12 months.

It means the average surfer spent almost an extra hour a week online.

A Europe-wide study by the European Interactive Advertising Agency shows that, while 16- to 24-year-olds are using the web to keep in contact with friends and to feed their digital music habits, older surfers are increasingly using the net to shop, to check on stocks and shares and to book holidays.

Alison Fennah, the agency's executive director, said: "Every time a new high-profile website emerges, another person is tempted to join the revolution.

"This Christmas, for instance, a whole new collection of people will shop for presents online for the first time. They will then have the confidence to do it again and again and the way society operates will have changed by another small step.

"A couple of years ago the majority of us were still using the internet primarily to send emails. Today that is just one of hundreds of ways people are using the technology."

Mrs Fennah added that internet use has spiralled in large part because of faster broadband connections.

The biggest growth area this year has been in social networking websites, such as MySpace and Bebo, where people post messages, write diaries and share photographs and videos with other users.

A quarter of all surfers visited one of these sites at least once a month.

Researchers said people are also increasingly making phone calls over the internet, as well as dowloading TV programmes and listening to the radio online.

More than 7,000 people were interviewed for the study. Over half (53 per cent) of 16- to 24-year-olds across Europe go online every day. For those over 25, the figure is 45 per cent.

Men use the internet more than women - 51 per cent compared with 38 per cent.

From 5.30pm to 9pm, three-quarters of regular internet users are online.





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