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Americans blog more, e-mail less

MANHASSAT, N.Y., Aug. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Internet users spend most of their online time visiting blogs and social networking sites and less time checking e-mail, a poll indicates.

A Neilsen study finds online users dedicate almost a quarter of their Internet time to social networks with Facebook the most popular, InformationWeek reported Monday.

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"Despite the almost unlimited nature of what you can do on the web, 40 percent of U.S. online time is spent on just three activities -- social networking, playing games and e-mailing, leaving a whole lot of other sectors fighting for a declining share of the online pie," Nielsen analyst Dave Martin said in a statement.

In its report released Sunday, "What Americans Do Online," Neilsen said U.S. Internet users spent 22.7 percent of their time on social networking sites, up 43 percent from the 15.8 percent they spent in 2009, InformationWeek said.

Internet users spent only 8.3 percent of their online time reading and writing e-mails, a figure down almost 28 percent from last year's 11.5 percent, the report said.

By contrast Neilsen's study found Americans spent 42 percent of their online time using e-mail via their phones to access the Internet.

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"While convergence will continue, the unique characteristics of computers and mobiles, both in their features, and when and where they are used, mean that mobile Internet behavior mirroring its PC counterpart is still some way off," Martin said.

There was no mention of margin of error.

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