Comments on: Effort Better Spent Elsewhere? http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2007/04/effort-better-spent-elsewhere/ A design blog with a particular emphasis on green design, design for society, and environmental technologies, Vestal Design Blog also discusses web design, product design, graphic design, and architecture. Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:46:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bob http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2007/04/effort-better-spent-elsewhere/comment-page-1/#comment-39292 Bob Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:11:19 +0000 http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2007/04/effort-better-spent-elsewhere.html#comment-39292 Link: http://www.stanford.edu/group/siqss/Press_Release/press_detail.html Link: http://www.stanford.edu/group/siqss/Press_Release/press_detail.html

]]> By: Bob http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2007/04/effort-better-spent-elsewhere/comment-page-1/#comment-39291 Bob Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:10:57 +0000 http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2007/04/effort-better-spent-elsewhere.html#comment-39291 Some interesting related stuff over at Stanford: The more time people spend using the Internet...the more they lose contact with their social environment. This effect is noticeable even with just 2-5 Internet hours/week, and it rises substantially for those spending more that 10 hours/week, of whom up to 15 percent report a decrease in social activities. Even more striking is the fact that Internet users spend much less time of talking on the phone to friends and family: the percentage reporting a decrease exceeds 25 percent - although it is unclear to what extent this represents a shift to e-mail even in communicating with friends and family, or a technical bottleneck due to a single phone line being preempted by Internet use. link Some interesting related stuff over at Stanford:

The more time people spend using the Internet…the more they lose contact with their social environment. This effect is noticeable even with just 2-5 Internet hours/week, and it rises substantially for those spending more that 10 hours/week, of whom up to 15 percent report a decrease in social activities. Even more striking is the fact that Internet users spend much less time of talking on the phone to friends and family: the percentage reporting a decrease exceeds 25 percent – although it is unclear to what extent this represents a shift to e-mail even in communicating with friends and family, or a technical bottleneck due to a single phone line being preempted by Internet use.

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