Canadians surf web, watch YouTube, consult Wikipedia more than any other users

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Really? I would think US users use it more...

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/canadians-surf-watch-youtube-consult-wikipedia-more-other-20101228-020009-784.html"

TORONTO - Canadians were curating their Facebook profiles long before the rest of the world got hooked, many were experimenting with the limitations of writing in 140-character snippets at Twitter's launch in 2006, and we watch online video more than any other web surfers. There aren't many theories as to why exactly, but Canadians rank among the most enthusiastic users of the web and all its various offshoots. The Canadian Press talked to a few of the Internet's biggest properties about what Canadians are doing online.

Canada loves surfing the web ...

Canadians spend more time online than users in any of the countries tracked by measurement company comScore, which also said Canada had the highest penetration of Internet access. About 68 per cent of the Canadian population is online, comScore estimated in April, compared to 62 per cent in France and the United Kingdom, 60 per cent in Germany, 59 per cent in the United States, 57 per cent in Japan, and 36 per cent in Italy.

Canada was the only country in which users logged an average of more than 2,500 minutes online a month, which is almost 42 hours. Israel was second with an average of around 2,300 minutes, while a few other countries were around the 2,000-minute mark.

... and watching online video

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How do they even get their data such as age demographics ? I hope they are not data-mining.

 

[Evo]

Perhaps there are fewer real life activities for Canadians?

 

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There's plenty to do in Canada. Winter Carnival, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, clubbing baby seals...

Seriously, the weather plays a big role in the prevalence of indoor activities, and I'm not a bit surprised by the findings.

 

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There's plenty to do in Canada. Winter Carnival, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, clubbing baby seals...

Seriously, the weather plays a big role in the prevalence of indoor activities, and I'm not a bit surprised by the findings.

You have a point. But we are definitely not the coldest country either.

 

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Seriously, the weather plays a big role in the prevalence of indoor activities, and I'm not a bit surprised by the findings.

And it's a relatively uniformly prosperous society.
The 'average' Canadian isn't as rich as the average for the US because Bill Gates and Buffet skew the curve, but the majority of Canadians are well off enough to have toys - there isn't numerically as much of a poor underclass as America.