By Belinda Goldsmith / Reuters
Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:53 PM ET
Surfing the net has become an
obsession for many Americans with the majority of U.S. adults
feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one
in three giving up friends and sex for the Web.
A survey asked 1,011 American adults how long they would
feel OK without going on the Web, to which 15 percent said a
just a day or less, 21 percent said a couple of days and
another 19 percent said a few days.
Only a fifth of those who took part in an online survey
conducted by advertising agency JWT between Sept 7 and 11 said
they could go for a week.
"People told us how anxious, isolated and bored they felt
when they are forced off line," said Ann Mack, director of
trend spotting at JWT, which conducted the survey to see how
technology was changing people's behavior.
"They felt disconnected from the world, from their friends
and family," she told Reuters.
