These days many prefer to send me email using LinkedIn or Facebook. I am yet to get used to this new platform for email, when it comes to user experience they don’t come anywhere near the traditional email but I guess it is a matter of convenience.
The chart below shows how Social Networks & Online games are taking away the time spent on email. Few term it as “1/3rd of your time is being wasted on Facebook & Farmville”
It would be interesting to see a similar analysis for the Indian internet user base. Reasonably sure surfers in India are spending a lot of time on Facebook. Online movies is popular amongst youngsters in India but bandwidth is an issue here.
| Top 10 Sectors by Share of U.S. Internet Time | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RANK | Category | Share of Time June 2010 |
Share of Time June 2009 |
% Change in Share of Time |
| 1 | Social Networks | 22.7% | 15.8% | 43% |
| 2 | Online Games | 10.2% | 9.3% | 10% |
| 3 | 8.3% | 11.5% | -28% | |
| 4 | Portals | 4.4% | 5.5% | -19% |
| 5 | Instant Messaging | 4.0% | 4.7% | -15% |
| 6 | Videos/Movies | 3.9% | 3.5% | 12% |
| 7 | Search | 3.5% | 3.4% | 1% |
| 8 | Software Manufacturers | 3.3% | 3.3% | 0% |
| 9 | Multi-category Entertainment | 2.8% | 3.0% | -7% |
| 10 | Classifieds/Auctions | 2.7% | 2.7% | -2% |
| Other | 34.3% | 37.3% | -8% | |
| Source: The Nielsen Company | ||||
So how much time did you spend on Facebook today? Me? Very very minimal.
The worst fact is that spam’s are little difficult to avoid and nowdays in this automated world most of the posts in the facebook are almost spam!