Tag: SURVEY

Need further proof that the Internet is turning us into anti-social, asexual balls of pathetic brain mush? Look no further than the results of a new survey from security firm PC Tools. According to the survey, 29-percent of American Internet users see no problem whatsoever with accessing the Internet during a wedding, 41-percent think it's perfectly acceptable to surf during family dinners, ...

It's probably not news to you that apps are the hottest trend in the mobile world right now. In the few short years since the iPhone ushered in the era of the consumer-oriented smartphone, the number of cell phone owners with applications installed on their handsets has risen to 43-percent, according to a recent Pew poll. That means that roughly 35-percent of the U.S. adult population downloads ...

According to a new comScore study, Web surfers spent about 41.1 million minutes on Facebook during the month of August, roughly equivalent to 9.9-percent of all time spent online. That total put the social network slightly ahead of Google, where, last month, users spent 39.8 million minutes (or 9.6-percent of their time). After being leapfrogged by Facebook during the month of July, Yahoo! ...

Victims of cybercrimes are often quite angry about being hacked and snookered. That's not surprising. What might come as a bit of a shock is that most aggrieved blame themselves. According to a survey from Symantec, 54-percent of those who had fallen prey to Internet scams and attacks said they should have been "more careful," while 12-percent said the security breach was entirely their own fault. ...

Share digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/08/16/danger-facebook-dislike-button-is-just-another-scam/'; Not to be party poopers or anything, but you know all those statuses you've seen on your friends' Facebook profiles, claiming to have finally installed that elusive 'Dislike Button?' Totally fake. Tragic news, we know, but, as of now, there's still no official dislike button, and ...

In anticipation of an Emergency Social Data Summit later this week in Washington, D.C., the Red Cross has released the findings of a survey (PDF link) it conducted on social networking use during a disaster. From the 1,058 self-selected respondents, some interesting figures emerged. Try to follow along as we plow through the data. Of the respondents, 72-percent use social media sites of some ...

In May of 2009, we learned that, despite fully knowing the dangers of doing so, most teens were still driving while texting. A new survey from AAA and Seventeen Magazine shows that, even though awareness has improved, still more teens are engaging in distracting behavior while driving. The study asked 1,999 teens (apparently unable to get just one more kid), ages 16 to 19, about the sorts of ...

Share Everyone hates the IRS. And, when it comes to universal loathsomeness, Facebook ranks even lower. According to results from the 2010 American Customer Survey Index (ACSI), Mark Zuckerberg's social networking goliath scored a 64 out of a possible 100 points, putting it below the IRS (which scored a 79 earlier this year), airlines and cable providers. In a statement, Facebook spokesman Jonny ...

We bloggers may be nothing more than two-dimensional cynics to you, but behind the veil of snark, self-referentialism and make-believe words lurk very real, omnivorous human beings, just like yourself. "But who are these mythical bloggers?" you ask yourself. "Where do they come from? God, I hope they aren't all British." A new report from Sysomos has your answers. Not surprisingly, the majority ...

Do people read e-books more slowly than printed ones? A small survey by Nielsen Norman Group alleges that we may process digital words at a lazier pace than we do those on the page, but, when further analyzed, the results of the survey raise questions about the participants themselves. A group of 24 volunteers "who like reading and frequently read books" were asked to read Hemingway short ...

Today, videos are about as synonymous with the Internet as apple pie is with America. It should come as no surprise that a major slice of the online populous flocks to the Web to consume video media -- we all knew it had officially entered the mainstream when our moms began compulsively sharing YouTube dancing weddings with our grandmas. But a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life ...

In March, industry analysts from Forrester Research found that only 41-percent of all Web-surfing Americans know the exact speed of their broadband connection. While that figure may seem low to some, it wasn't that surprising, given the fact that determining connection speeds is an inexact science at best. But a new survey from the FCC shows confirms only about one in five American users know just ...

If the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has its way, cell phone users won't be shocked anymore when they open their bills. According to MSNBC, the FCC claims that one in six cell phone users, or about 30 million people across the U.S., have experienced "bill shock" due to a drastic increase in charges from one month to the next. Yes, thanks to the FCC, there's a name for this phenomenon ...

The indulgent practices of Google-stalking and self-searching both surfaced as soon as Google was born, and statistics from three years ago already indicated that over half of all adults admitted to Google snooping. The proliferation of such search engine spying -- coupled with the innumerable amount of Web-related arrests, suspensions, firings and expulsions -- has apparently inspired people to ...

Despite dropped calls and dead zones, cell phone customers are happier with their wireless providers than ever before according to a new study. The Associated Press reports that the American Customer Satisfaction Index for cell phone service registered an all-time favorable high (three points above last year) during the first quarter of 2010. The survey, encompassing 11,000 U.S. households, rated ...