How women and men use the internet.

1. A wide-ranging look at the way American women and men use the internet shows that men continue to pursue many internet activities more intensively than women, and that men are still first out of the blocks in trying the latest technologies.

2. Men are slightly more intense internet users than women. Men log on more often, spend more time online, and are more likely to be broadband users.

3. More than men, women are enthusiastic online communicators, and they use email in a more robust way. Women are more likely than men to use email to write to friends and family about a variety of topics: sharing news and worries, planning events, forwarding jokes and funny stories. Women are more likely to feel satisfied with the role email plays in their lives, especially when it comes to nurturing their relationships. And women include a wider range of topics and activities in their personal emails. Men use email more than women to communicate with various kinds of organizations.

4. More online men than women perform online transactions. Men and women are equally likely to use the internet to buy products and take part in online banking, but men are more likely to use the internet to pay bills, participate in auctions, trade stocks and bonds, and pay for digital content.

5. Men are more likely than women to use the internet as a destination for recreation. Men are more likely to: gather material for their hobbies, read online for pleasure, take informal classes, participate in sports fantasy leagues, download music and videos, remix files, and listen to radio.

6. Men and women also value the internet for a second strength, as a gateway to limitless vaults of information. Men reach farther and wider for topics, from getting financial information to political news. Along the way, they work search engines more aggressively, using engines more often and with more confidence than women.

I think the website was fairly true. Women are def catching up on using the internet though.

3 bridging sites.

In my other post I said that craigslist.com was a bonding site, however I think it could be considered a bridging site as well. It brings people together in the sense of a bonding site but also it is a bridging site because of all the possible things you can choose from.

Amazon.com could be considered another bridging site. Because it shares a lot of the same features as craigslist, it provides consumers with places to shop, a wish list, apparel, elecronics, and much more. It has departments where you can find things or even learn about health benefits and tools.

Another bridging site would be msn.com, because you can link into anything. There's hotmail, weather, white pages, TV, horoscopes, and much more.

3 bonding sites.

One bonding site that I know of is cbssports.com fantasy football league. This would be considered a bonding site because it's a group of guys that get together through a website and play against each other with the people they picked to be on their fantasy football team. While the games play many sit on the computers to watch their scores differentiate.

Another bonding site would be craigslist.com. It is a site for people to put stuff online to either sell or give away. You can post adds if you have your own business company and you can even find dates or people to engage with. There are a bunch of categories to choose from like housing, jobs, or services and plenty more.

http://www.umc.org/site/c.lwL4KnN1LtH/b.1353935/k.4713/Our_mission_is_to_make_disciples_of_Jesus_Christ_for_the_transformation_of_the_world.htm

This is a religion site that could be considered a bonding site. They explain about the people of the Methodist Church, explain about their believes, church and society, and much more.

FCC Chairman calls for the Formal Net Neutrality Rules.

"The U.S Federal Communications Commission will move to create formal net neutrality rules prohibiting Internet providers from selectively blocking or slowing web content and applications, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski."There are originally 4 policy principles that are obeyed by, but he wants to formalize 2 more policies into the system. For the October meeting he says he will launch a notice of proposed rule-making . He wants to know what the public and interested companies feedback on the proposed rules and their applications. His two new principles are, the first would prevent Internet access providers from discriminating against particular Internet content or applications, while allowing for reasonable network management. The second principle would ensure that Internet access providers are transparent about the network management practices they implement.

I think people who want a faster connection should be able to pay for it. But some people are fine with what they have to they shouldn't have to pay more if they don't mind with what they have.

Top Languages in the internet

1. English

2. Chinese

3. Spanish

4. Japanese

5. French

6. Portuguese

7. German

8. Arabic

9. Russia

10. Korean

Highest Internet Penetration Rate

1. Sweden 73.6%

2. Hong Kong 70.7%

3. Denmark 68.7%

4. U.S. 68.5%

5. Norway 68.2%

6. Australia 67.2%

7. Iceland 67.1%

8. Netherlands 66.2%

9. Canada 63.8%

10. South Korea 63.3%

Top ten parent companies in the internet

1. Microsoft

2. Yahoo!

3. Time Warner

4. Google.

5. U.S. Government

6. eBay

7. InterActiveCorp

8. Amazon

9. Real Networks

10. Walk Disney Internet group

Top 5 Internet highest number of users

1. China- 298.0

2. U.S.- 227.2

3. Japan- 94.0

4. India- 81.0

5. Brazil- 67.5

Top 10 searches:

1. www.facebook.com login 100

2. www.hotmail.com 40

3. www.youtube.com 30

4. www.yahoo.com 25

5. www.myspace.com 15

6. www.gmail.com 10

7. www.friendster.com 10

8.www.libero.it 5

9. www.google.com 5

10. www.facebook.com 5