American youth use the Internet compared

 China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) 7 24, at the statistics, as of the end of June 2008, the number of Internet users reached 253 million, substantially more than the first time the U.S. Internet users in China ranks first in the world. Nevertheless, the Internet penetration rate of only 19.1%, still below the global average (21.1%). According to a survey conducted by Forrester Research, about 3 / 4 of Americans have Internet access, have their own web of life, while China's Internet penetration rate is only 19.1%.
an interesting phenomenon, the survey shows that in the United States, 29 to 42 people between the Internet is becoming the first X generation, this generation spent the week of personal time on the Internet about 8 hours, basically sending and receiving e-mail or browse some product introductions, and like the blog, with very little social networking. but the first Y generation of young people (18-28 years) are quite different, 80% of the Y generation, about a week more than 10 hours of personal time in the bubble on the Internet, video, social networking sites, blog is a place they frequented.
contrast China's Internet population ages, the main body of Internet users in China is still below 30 years of age and younger age groups,UGG boots, The users group accounted for 68.6% of Chinese Internet users, more than the total number of users 2 / 3. but the length of time online every week no less favorable to the Y on behalf of the United States, the domestic group of young men under 30 access to the Internet 19 hours a week online . According to CNNIC's survey, online music, online news, instant messaging,UGG shoes, web applications are the top three.
in the United States, young people most often go to the 15 largest sites 1, Hulu.com (Type: Video) 2 , Songza.com (Type: Music) 3, Veoh.com (Type: Video) 4, Digg.com (type: community-based content) 5, Stumbleupon.com (type: community-based content), mostly for video and social networking Web site and content.
course, this trend is developing in the country, the top ten web application are: online music, online news, instant messaging, online video, search engines, e-mail, online games, blog / personal space, forums / BBS, and online shopping. blog for the first time into the network should be the top ten, and video development and popularity of social networking sites, perhaps in the next CNNICE report, we can see the top ten of these applications.