internet usage: men vs women

In most categories of internet activity, more men than women are participants, but women are catching up.

-overall this might be true i agree that women are catching up,more and more things are becoming available and women are becoming more interested.

Men are more avid consumers than women of online information. Men look for information on a wider variety of topics and issues than women do.

-women usually just use online for what they need ,men can spend hours just parusing the internet, i can see where they are coming from when they use this statistic.

Men are more interested than women in technology, and they are also more tech savvy.

-i feel like im really tech savvy i guess this just depends on who you are

Men are more likely than women to use the internet as a destination for recreation. Men are more likely to: gather material for their hobbies, read online for pleasure, take informal classes, participate in sports fantasy leagues, download music and videos, remix files, and listen to radio.

-basically these stats are saying men use the internet for everything no matter what, they are attached at the hip to their computer, maybe its because you can have everything at the tips of ur fingers and men are usually lazy which makes this understandable.

More online men than women perform online transactions. Men and women are equally likely to use the internet to buy products and take part in online banking, but men are more likely to use the internet to pay bills, participate in auctions, trade stocks and bonds, and pay for digital content.

- women want to check their bank and go shopping right from the get go why bother in auctions and trade stocks and bonds its not appealing.

Bonding and Bridging

Today we were asked to find websites that have a bonding and bridging social capital, a bonding website is a site that people go to that share the same interest it brings people together and i believe that these three sites do just that.

1.)fulltilt.com- an online poker website where people from all over the world can join in on their passion for poker, play against each other and play with real money.

2.)facebook.com- an online website where you get to keep in contact with friends who live far away or the ones right in your area, a site where bonding is its main idea, a social networking site.

3.)ebay.com-an online site where people all over can share their passion for selling and buying products online, a shoppers paradise for things that might be discontinued or a way to make quick money off things you don't want anymore.

Bridging websites are sites that have everything a big variety that people go to to come together.Here are some that i believe are bridging websites.

1.) diospringfield.com a site about faith, and a site that has all the churches in Springfield,ma you can pretty much find what you are looking for at this website.

2.)aic.edu our schools website for American International College, this site has everything from academics, to sports, to your school schedule, many different ideas put into one site.

FCC is taking a stand

According to newtorkworld.com, we were able to hear about the news of the federal communications commission who is trying to take a stand against the information superhighway from becoming a toll toad giving preferential treatment for those who pay for it. To make this easier to understand it means they are trying to slow us down, you would have to pay more for your Internet services to receive the highest speed Internet and if you pay less you are basically at the bottom of the barrel think of it as going back to dial-up. I had found that this quote from the site made me realize what it really means if this is passed:

"imagine if private companies owned the highways and had the ability to control which lanes you could drive in based on your ability to pay. Large corporate customers with enormous budgets would get to fly by in the left lane of the highway. Smaller businesses and individuals who can afford it would get to drive on the slower highway lanes-frequently slowed down by frustrating construction projects. Average consumers would not be allowed on the highway at all. They would be forced to drive on surface streets-plodding along at a snail's pace, constantly interrupted by stop signs and street lights."

I hope the FCCs stand against this is works because i'm sure pretty much everyone is so used to having the fastest internet and in doing this not everyone is going to be able to pay for the highest speed, and the thought of having a snails pace aka dial-up makes me want to spoon my eyes out.

Internet World Stats

In our Internet Communications class we were asked to find five points about internet world statistics according to internetworldstats.com here is what i found interesting that others might as well. The country of Asia has the largest amount of internet users while the oceania users are at 1.3 %. Egypt is the number 1 internet user in Africa. The United States total internet users is 251,735,500. Also, in Europe 24.6% of the population are online which does not accumulate to very many. I hope these findings were as interesting to others reading as they were to myself.