A new Nielsen study finds that Americans, Brits and Italians spend more hours using their smartphones in a given month than they do surfing the web from computers.
The gap is particularly wide in Italy, where locals spend 37 hours per month on their phones versus a mere 18 hours browsing from their PCs. Not surprisingly, social networking is the biggest lure -- users spend roughly a quarter of their phone time using Facebook, Twitter and other social apps.
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I think one of the reasons that people use Smartphones more for surfing the web is because a lot of the good websites related to anime, sports, cartoons, music, and anything non-work related or non-educational are blocked at school, work, and sometimes at home because of strict conservative parents.
But, with a smartphone, people can use their own wireless internet connection from their local cell phone company to visit all the sites which are blocked at work, home, and school.
I also think people are using social networking apps to avoid paying overage fees for going over their text messages, and voice minute limits since many social networking apps now has private messaging, and some Apps like Facebook Messenger even have voice calls, and messaging. Also, social networking apps can use Wi-Fi without getting block as easily at school or work like visiting social networks like Facebook on a web browser.
The gap is particularly wide in Italy, where locals spend 37 hours per month on their phones versus a mere 18 hours browsing from their PCs. Not surprisingly, social networking is the biggest lure -- users spend roughly a quarter of their phone time using Facebook, Twitter and other social apps.
Read More
I think one of the reasons that people use Smartphones more for surfing the web is because a lot of the good websites related to anime, sports, cartoons, music, and anything non-work related or non-educational are blocked at school, work, and sometimes at home because of strict conservative parents.
But, with a smartphone, people can use their own wireless internet connection from their local cell phone company to visit all the sites which are blocked at work, home, and school.
I also think people are using social networking apps to avoid paying overage fees for going over their text messages, and voice minute limits since many social networking apps now has private messaging, and some Apps like Facebook Messenger even have voice calls, and messaging. Also, social networking apps can use Wi-Fi without getting block as easily at school or work like visiting social networks like Facebook on a web browser.