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Internet users spend less time with family

Posted by Anne On June - 22 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS 46 views

Here comes the most known report, the difference is  its proven now with the survey conducted throughout America.   Internet Users throughout America are facing less  Face to Face time with the Family members. There new interest  is in Social Networking, Online Browsing, Chat with new friends, hangout with friends, etc.,

Concentrating so much on social networking sites makes them fail in the family contact, survey reports . It was earlier reported through another  survey that Social Networking reduces the interest of teens  in studies. Now, the latest Survey reports  of  low and decreasing contacts and chats with family members.

This is real bad ah, family is first always  but  its hard  to leave  Internet as it contains so much entertainment. Teenage students also feel not only  in America but throughout the world that  “Without  Internet their life will be like Hell”.

The Survey was conducted by  by researchers at the Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Its shocking to learn from these reports  that  the rate of increase of  people who say  they are spending less time with family members have been jumped  from 11 percent in 2006  to  26 percent in 2008.

According to Researchers, reports of feeling ignored, at least sometimes, by family members using the Internet also grew by 40 percent over the same period.

Michael Gilbert, author of The Disposable Male and a senior fellow at the Center, says that diminishing family time coincides with the explosive growth of social networks and the importance people place on them, a trend first reported in the Center’s 2007 surveys. The most reports from a family comes from  Women in the family  reporting that they are being ignored most of the time by the internet user of the family.

Gilbert added : “The family is our social foundation, society’s basic building block. We need to guard its health in what otherwise seems to be a boundless digital future.”

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