The Guardian’s Obssessed with online networks

Great story in the Guardian yesterday from an Ofcom report into how much time people are spending in online networks.

The report says that 39 per cent of adults with internet access use social networking sites

Apparently we’re averaging five hours a month in MySpace, Facebook etc (I feel like I’m doing a lot more at the minute – my course has got me soc-netting, I’m on Facebook, I’ve got a Ning network for my student group, one with my colleagues and I’ve been invited into another for a research group…. And I’m trying to drum up support for a friend’s rude punk band on MySpace too.).

Apparently London is one of the biggest networks – there’s a surprise, where do most of our technorati and media savvy types live? (ok Hoxton, but you get the idea)

But the Canadians are doing more than anyone else – to be fair my cousins in Toronto tell me it does get reeeallly cold there.

Wonder how many of these are involved in any kind of e-learning? Would be an interesting thing to do some research into.

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Tags: Ofcom, e-learning, social network, MySpace, Ning, Facebook, Guardian