In my travels, it seems that most home computer users primarily use email. I would love to see 100-200 comments attached to this short article so you can tell me what you use your computer for from day-to-day. You don’t have to be statistically accurate or detailed, I’m just curious and this topic is too broad and detailed for a poll.
Here’s how I use my main computer:
Internet (web browsing, pay bills, web site maintenance, etc) – 60%
Email – 15%
Instructional videos – 10%
Word Processing – 8%
Desktop publishing (creating newsletters, flyers, calendars, etc) – 2%
Skype video calls – 1%
Digital Photography (including ordering, editing, and downloading photos) – 1%
Games – .33%
Other – 2.67%
YOUR TURN! Leave a comment and share what you use your primary computer for on average. Thanks!
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Music on Pandora – 100%
email – 35
digital photos – 10
word processing – 20
search, gen’l, genealogy, etc -15
google earth – 5
desk top publish – 15
Great comments everyone…keep them coming. Although, I still need the commenters listing “work” as an item to define that in terms of what kind of work that entails.
I’m listening to Pandora right now as well…what a great service!
email 10%
news 5%
paying bills and banking 5%
digital photography (management, editing, photo projects, ordering) 25%
digital photography editing work (as it relates to my online business 30%
shopping or searching for good deals 10%
general searching (tech stuff, medical, household tips, recipes, it’s endless, really!)10%
word processing (archiving family history, letters, misc.) 5 %
PERSONAL
Email 1 hr/day
Web browsing 1 hr/day
Violette Family Association member updates 1 hr/day
Violette Family Association web maint/updates 0.2 hr/day
Other web system programming 1 hr/day
OFFICE (Civil engineering consulting)
Email 0.5 hr/day
Technical engineering work 1.0 hr/day
Word processing, spreadsheets, etc 2.0 hr/day
Marketing research 1.0 hr/day
Timesheet, admin, etc 1.0 hr/day
Work: 70% = creating forms, graphics, word processing, biz & tech research/help, Bkkpg biz postings.
Fun: 30% – email, games, news, shop, bank, medical help, tech help, personal bkkpg postings.
Internet Business–paying bills, research and information searches, weather, updating spyware,–50%
Games–none
Email–20%
Word Processing–Letters, stories, 25%
Fooling around with new sites–5%
Internet (shopping, banking, bill paying, browsing)- 80%
Email – 10%
Digital Photography – 5%
Word processing – 5%
Thanks for the first two comments! Keep them coming everyone. This should make for some interesting statistics which I will compile in another post in about a week…providing you give me enough data!
I use it as follows:
60 % emails
30 % digital photography
10 % surfing for information on various subjects
Digital Photography 45%
Email 30%
Internet(web browsing) 23%
Word Processing 2%
Work use – 50% of my day at work (at least)
word processing – 20%
data access – 30%
desktop publishing – 30%
email – 10%
research – 10%
Personal use
email – 25%
digital photography and extensions thereof – 50%
research / news / weather / banking etc – 15%
general internet surfing / exploring – 5%
other – 5% (not games)
work 60%
e-mail 20%
shopping 15%
games 5%
work 70%
e-mail 20%
shopping 5%
games 5%
Is work word processing, spreadsheets, searching the web? What is work?
financial (trading and research, banking, bill paying) 25%
word processing 10%
audio-visual (pod casts, TV shows, music)25%
Card games 20%
E mail 10%
general information (weather, travel directions, finding answers, general reading) 10%
News/Weather/Political and News Commentary 30%
Email 20%
Solitaire and FreeCell 5%
Paying Bills and Financial 25%
Word Processing 10%
Photo management 10%
work 10%
genealogy 30%
email 20%
shopping 10%
research 15%
writing 15%