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Britons spend one in every 12 waking minutes on the internet, causing advertisers to splurge great wads of cash on online marketing, according to an internet advertisers' trade body. UK internet use minute by minute UK internet use minute by minute. Source: UKOM, July 2013 According to a report from the Internet …

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  1. Sir Runcible Spoon

    Did I miss something

    Does porn not come under entertainment then?

    1. Jacksonville
      Childcatcher

      Re: Did I miss something

      Deliberately excluded, this is a decent report for decent people

      1. Goldmember

        Re: Did I miss something

        Define "decent people"

        1. John G Imrie

          Define "decent people"

          Any one who thinks the same why I do.

          1. John G Imrie

            why I do.

            Sorry I seam to have come over all Geordie there!

        2. Jacksonville

          Re: Did I miss something

          Those who didn't sign this:

          http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/51746

    2. Maharg

      Re: Did I miss something

      Yes, porn = "Other" that big gray slice

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Did I miss something

      >Does porn not come under entertainment then?

      My initial thought was you can lump other and entertainment together and then you'll have porn.

      All together now, the internet is for porn, ..., so grab your dick and double click on porn, porn, porn

      PS. Thank heavens for the AC checkbox

    4. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Did I miss something

      1 in 12 minutes spent online and 55 secs of each of those minutes spent viewing pornnnnnnnnah!

    5. Greg J Preece

      Re: Did I miss something

      Actually, I did misread "waking" in the title and thought the numbers were very low...

  2. Lottie

    Does arguing on forums come under "entertainment" or "games"?

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  3. Thomas Duffin IV

    Seems a bit low

    would have thought it would be far more than one in twelve wa...

    oh, it says WAKING, never mind.

  4. Goldmember

    Seems about right...

    ...for your average punter. But to many regular readers of this site, I suspect it will be much higher.

    I am a web developer by trade, and I reckon mine is probably more like 5-6, even excluding porn ;-)

    1. auburnman

      Re: Seems about right...

      Obviously those surveyed 'forgot' to mention their web use at work...

  5. McVirtual

    Work

    I guess they've also excluded the time we spend in the Internet at work... and I'm pretty sure I sleep browse too..

  6. Crisp
    Coat

    Other

    Weirdest spelling of porn I've ever seen!

  7. Steve Knox
    WTF?

    Huh?

    "Britons spend one in every 12 waking minutes on the internet..."

    "...folks in Blighty are nearly always online unless they're actually unconscious..."

    How does 8% of the time (1/12) translate to "nearly always"?

  8. Arctic fox
    Headmaster

    This still begs the question..........

    "Britons spend one in every 12 waking minutes on the internet, causing advertisers to splurge great wads of cash on online marketing, according to an internet advertisers' trade body."

    ................are they paying anymore attention than they do to telly ads these days?

  9. Hairy Spod
    Paris Hilton

    I totally misread that opening line

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