2008 Internet User Behavior Report

The economy had a big impact on user behaviors during the Fall of 2008 as compared to Fall 2007.

Among the new growth behavior statistics from Mediamark Research & Intelligence are those looking for jobs online (up 23.6%) which tied with those using Instant Messenger (up 23.6%). Other big increases include looking for recipes (up 24.8%), watching online video (up 35.4%), making an online phone call (up 32%), and the biggest gain of all, downloading a television program (up 141.4%). Modest gain also came from those downloading podcasts (up 22.1%) and reading blogs (up 17.9%).

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Data: MRI’s Fall 2008 and Fall 2007 Survey of the American Consumer