Uh oh. Wait. People spend more time with the Internet the longer they have had access. The more hours of use past five, the more social isolation. Sixty percent of Internet users say that their Internet use has cut into their television viewing and newspaper reading time. The least educated and oldest Americans tend to access the Internet the least, but when they do, their habits are relatively equal to others with Internet access.
Email is the most used arm of the Internet.
Chat rooms did not fair well in the survey. There is more, but these were the seven findings that were trumpeted the loudest. Now the fun begins. You may get a feeling that these results bode poorly for the Internet society. That's the one that jumped out and grabbed me right off, but let's stop and look at these results in another light.