Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Britons log onto Myspace more than any other Europeans


Social networking websites are not only a phenomenon in the U.S.--they have also become a hit abroad. And studies show that apparently Britons use social networking sites more than any of their European counterparts.

According to the research by Ofcom, Britons devote 5.3 hours a month to sites like Facebook and MySpace, visiting them an average of 23 times. Almost 40 percent of British adults with internet access were found to use social networking sites compared with 22 percent in Italy, 17 percent in France and 12 percent in Germany. Women age 18 to 34 were found to be using the internet more often than men as well.

The Britons also beat Americans by 34 percent and Japan by 32 percent, according to the watchdog's international communications market report.

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--Anna Mavromati

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