What most people do on the Internet

Do you spend hours on the internet, watching videos, checking e-mails, reading news or going shopping?

An infographic published by the website Flowtown do a research what most people do while connected virtually.

What users most do on the virtual world are: read or send e-mails, use search engines, search for medical or health information, check info about the weather and search for services or products.

At the other end, that is, the less things people do online, are creating or working on personal pages, buy or sell stocks, using dating sites, visiting universes like Second Life - and for surprise, access the Twitter!

Although this research does not show specific data with numbers such as online pornography, the information is very interesting to understand a bit more the internet's influence on people's life.

The data are divided in categories to make easy comprehension:

Entertainment and Social Networks

- 71% of people watch movies on YouTube or Vimeo;

- 65% are subscribed on relationship websites, such as Facebook or LinkedIn;

- 46% do photo upload to shared with other;

- 32% play games;

- 32% read newspaper or blogs informative ;

- 30% share something that created;

- 21% do podcast download;

- 13% use the Twitter;

- 14% use dating websites;

Finances

- 61% do operations on online banking;

- 37% search financial information, such as interest rates;

- 25% donate to a charity;

- 11% buy or sell stocks, bonds or mutual funds;

News

- 81% search for data about the weather;

- 76% receive news in general;

- 61% search for news about politics;

- 52% read news or any information about sports;

Personal Business

- 92% send or receive emails;

- 65% buy or make travel reservation;

- 37% evaluate products, services or persons;

- 24% do telephone calls;

- 15% create or work on web-pages or collaborative blogs;

- 14% create or work on blogs or personal websites;

- 14% have a personal website;

Shopping

- 78% search information about services and products;

- 71% buy some product;

- 53% put advertisements such as Craigslist;

- 26% participate on virtual auctions;

- 15% sell something

Web browsing and search

- 92% use search engines to find information;

- 83% search for medical or health information;

- 67% visit pages of cities, states or federal government;

- 56% search information about jobs;

- 53% read on Wikipedia;

- 32% post comments on groups, blogs or photos;