What do users do on the Internet?

[_ORiON_]

i'm doing a paper.
i know most of activities that are done on the net:

email
forums
groups
chat
blogging
surfing (merely looking for interesting site)
online banking/payments (eBay, Paypal. and online banks)
MMOG

but i don't know other activities that might not be so known yet still significant in terms of users doing it.

 

[shootme]

DL'ing and pr0n are also standards.

 

[Satangel]

Yeah, downloading is one of the biggest

Especially music.

And pr0n, from the age of 12.

 

[DeepFriedAsian]

Download, play games, E-mail, porn.

 

[Strider]

- administering my servers
- vpn to support other pc users
- buy and sell stuff

 

[mthrnite]

Research. The internet is my library.

 

[MAD_BOY]

downloading, email, chat and porn basically

 

[Mangofett]

Torrents, games, movies, music, and like mthr said, research.

 

[BoneMonkey]

Asian Porn
and ................ wait you can do more stuff on the internets ?

 

[deathfisaro]

Let's see.
Supplying information to people who's doing a paper?
Uploading / downloading random stuff.

 

[loathsome]

THE INTERNET IS FOR PORN.

AND PORN ONLY!

 

[Gus122000]

HEY DONTZ J0KEZ ABUT TEH INTERNTZ!

 

[WeaponXxX]

I bought my computer and internet service to look at funny cat pictures.

 

[Icarus]

hax computerz and websites !!

Not really but mostly I just surf around and chat. And download of course.

 

[Psyfira]

Photo albums (eg Flickr)

Lookup news, weather, train timetables and local information
Internet Radio (and other streaming media)

 

[Hitto]

Porn.
And also...
Tentacle Porn.

 

[Little]

Are you an information scientist? This sounds like something an information scientist (or a student of information science) would do. I have books and hundreds of lectures notes on this stuff. I've got 2 modules of it next year >.>

 

[kaoken]

i'm doing a paper.
i know most of activities that are done on the net:

email
forums
groups
chat
blogging
surfing (merely looking for interesting site)
online banking/payments (eBay, Paypal. and online banks)
MMOG

but i don't know other activities that might not be so known yet still significant in terms of users doing it.

Theres a lot of things you can do online. Video chatting, internet telephoning, scams, fraud, books, homework. I'm not quite sure what you are trying to achieve with this study though.

 

[PikaPika]

GBATemp, pr0n, torrents, gaming news, making dream computers on Newegg, and watching Red vs. Blue.

 

[UncleChuckle]

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