Japan Internet Usage

The rest of the figures are below.
6.5% - Less than 30 mins
12.3% - Between 30 mins and 1 hour
26.2% - Between 1 and 2 hours
25.2% - Between 2 and 3 hours
6.5% - Between 4 and 5 hours
14.9 - More than 5 hours
The remaining % - Dont use the internet/didn't answer.

My line of work means that I'm pretty much online for most of the day. If I don't have any external meetings, I'm online from about 5:30AM until about 12 midnight with breaks for beverage/nourishment and body waste disposal tasks.
Do try to get a break in the evening for 3 hours or so but that doesn't always happen. Occasionally do a jog in the morning and badminton in the evening too.
How much time do you spend online and what is that time spent doing?

I think about how the internet has changed my life and think how lucky younger folks are to have the internet being a part of their lives. When I was a teenager, if I wanted to see a pair of eyes, I had to go to the newsagent to pickup a copy of the Sun newspaper! For those who dont know, the Sun newspaper back in the UK features a girl showing her bare eyes everyday on page 3 - the "Page 3 girl."

While browsing around for daily entertainment, health information for young boys (pr0n), downloading torrents and playing the occasional online game is important for the mind and soul, I would also recommend that one spend time online to increase ones knowledge of known subjects and to learn new subjects too.
"Knowledge is power" as they say and it doesn't matter if you are down and out on cash at this moment in time - the more knowledge you have, the chances of using that knowledge to generate a good living in the future vastly increases.

I remember when I first got my computer 15 years ago. My phone bill went up to 200 pounds a week from downloading douijin pictures through a 56K modem - yes I was an admirer of 2D girls back then too ^^;

Apart from the doujin stuff, I wanted to learn more about how to use Japanese on Windows 95 which at the time didn't support double byte characters. Through info on the net, I learned about FDISK, Boot sectors, primary partitions, networking etc and became proficient at partitioning and configuring a machine to run Japanese, Korean, Chinese and English windows on a 4GB hard disk.

Without these computing skills, I don't think I would have made it to Japan Airlines as a computer engineer - and without Japan Airlines, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to work on HTML at work, and without that HTML experience, I wouldn't have made it to Japan with Nature. No Nature, no Amazon - it was Amazon which really gave me the opportunity as Website Manager with a team of 30 staff to explore my potential and challenge myself. I discovered what I wanted to do in life and gained a lot of the skills, knowledge and friends in the industry that enabled me to get to where I am now.
While I'm still a way off from my new Destination, I'm quietly happy and content with my current stage in life.

Two recommended sites for knowledge improvement are How Stuff Works for all round general stuff from how the stock market works to how a human is conceived.
The other site is W3 Schools where I picked up a lot of my CSS, HTML, PHP and javascript skills.

The take away from todays post? Have fun online but also have fun learning online too - life is short but many of us don't realize just how short before we start to regret the time wasted in the past.

Japanese internet usage stats from SEM CH.