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Nielsen: Games Account for 10% of All Time Spent Online in U.S.

By pete_gallagher

Results from new research released by Nielsen shows that Americans spend 40 percent of their time online doing one of three things—interacting with social networks, playing online games or checking/sending/reading email.

Social network engagement took a reported 22.7 percent of online time in June of 2010, up 43 percent from previous year results of 15.8 percent. Online gaming, with a healthy chunk made up of social games no doubt, took up 10.2 percent of available Internet time (up 10 percent from the year before), while email activities contributed to 8.3 percent of all time online.

Gaming surpassed email to become the second most time consuming online activity in the new results.
The all encompassing category of 'other' contributed 34.3 percent of all online time in June.

Converted to millions of hours, monthly time spent on social networking was put at 906 million hours, followed by games with 407 million hours and email activities with 329 million.
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 03, 2010 (boomark / email).