It's not exactly a shock to learn that a lot of young people go
online just to pass the time away or to have fun. A new study
from Pew Internet has apparently confirmed that assumption. In a
survey of 2,260 adults, 81 percent of the people who were
between the ages of 18 to 29 said that they have gone online on
occasion just to have some fun or pass the time. Indeed, 53
percent of the people in that same age bracket said that at the
time of the survey, they had gone online just to have fun the
previous day. The survey results show that the older a person
gets, the less likely they are to just go online to pass the
time away. 66 percent of people aged 30-49 admitted to spending
time on the Internet at some point for no particular reason. 50
percent of people aged 50-64 said that they surfed the Internet
in that way but only 23 percent of people aged 65 or above said
they used the Internet for no specific reason. Pew Internet
claims that these results are higher than when they asked the
same questions to a surv