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What do you really do with your computer?

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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17 comments

  1. 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

  2. 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!

  3. 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 %

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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%

  7. Internet (shopping, banking, bill paying, browsing)- 80%

    Email – 10%

    Digital Photography – 5%

    Word processing – 5%

  8. 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!

  9. I use it as follows:
    60 % emails
    30 % digital photography
    10 % surfing for information on various subjects

  10. Digital Photography 45%
    Email 30%
    Internet(web browsing) 23%
    Word Processing 2%

  11. 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)

  12. work 60%
    e-mail 20%
    shopping 15%
    games 5%

  13. work 70%
    e-mail 20%
    shopping 5%
    games 5%

  14. Is work word processing, spreadsheets, searching the web? What is work?

  15. 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%

  16. News/Weather/Political and News Commentary 30%
    Email 20%
    Solitaire and FreeCell 5%
    Paying Bills and Financial 25%
    Word Processing 10%
    Photo management 10%

  17. work 10%
    genealogy 30%
    email 20%
    shopping 10%
    research 15%
    writing 15%

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