Study Says Social Media Leads as Communications Channel

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Americans are spending an increasing amount of their Internet time on social networks, which is cutting into their use of such older channels of digital communications as email and the viewing of portals, according to a new study from Nielsen Co.
 
The company’s “What Americans Do Online” report, which monitored daily surfing habits of 220,000 people in June, found social networking took up 22.7% of users’ computer time, up from 15.8% in the same month last year. The use of online games, and watching of videos and movies online, also rose year over year.
 
Meanwhile, email’s share of Internet usage ...
 
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