On the Internet, as in life, men and women have different motivations for doing what they do. According to a recent report from Pew Internet and American Life, women view the Internet as a place to extend, support, and nurture relationships and communities.
Men tend to see it as an office, a library, or a playground--screw the community, this is about function not family.
The report found that women are more enthusiastic communicators, using email in a more robust way. Not only sending and receiving more email than men, women are more likely to write to family and friends about a variety of topics, sharing news, joys and worries, planning events, and forwarding jokes and stories.
While both sexes equally appreciate the efficiency and convenience of email, women are more likely than men to value the medium for its positive effects on improving relationships, expanding networks, and encouraging teamwork at the office.
"Women also value email for a kind of positive, water-cooler effect, which lightens the atmosphere of office life," reads the 54-page report.
The report found that women are more likely to use the Internet for emailing, getting maps and directions (after all, we men always know where were going), looking for health and medical information, seeking support for health and personal problems, and getting religious information.
Men tend to be more intense users than women, being more likely to go online daily (61% of men and 57% of women) and more likely to go online several times a day (44% of men and 39% of women).
Men also tend to go online in greater numbers than women but for a much broader variety of reasons. Men are more likely to use the Internet to check the weather, get news, find do-it-yourself information, acquire sports scores and information, look for political information, do job-related research, download software, listen to music, rate a product/person/service through an online reputation system, download music, use a webcam, and take a class.
Note there was nothing about "nurturing relationships."
Here are some stats for the number crunchers:
67% of the adult American population goes online, including 68% of men and 66% of women.
86% of women ages 18-29 are online, compared with 80% of men that age.
34% of men 65 and older use the Internet, compared with 21% of women that age.
62% of unmarried men compared with 56% of unmarried women go online.
75% of married women and 72% of married men go online.
61% of childless men compared with 57% of childless women go online.
81% of men with children and 80% of women with children go online.
52% of men and 48% of women have high-speed connections at home.
94% of online women and 88% of online men use email.
第二篇:来自星星的你英语优秀作文
篇一:来自星星的你
"From the stars you" is broadcast to South Korean SBS television in 2013 12 at the end of the drama special planning,directed by Zhang Taiyou,written by Pu Zhien,Kim Su Hyon,starring Gianna Jun.Is a story from the alien tothe mysterious man Korean era are sensitive Jun to live to 400 years after the modern process of falling in love,for the national top actress qianson in Iraq and in the body,two different planets to eliminate misunderstandings,overcome the danger in pursuit of romantic love comedy love.
篇二:来自星星的你
My Love from the Star has such an intense following, it’s got its fans acting crazy. The show debuted on December 18, 2013 and had an a一verage viewership of 24% in Korea. It then sold to China where it’s been viewed online through iQiyi, a Chinese video streaming platform, alone 14.5 billion times.
The premise is catchy: An alien lands 400 years ago in Korea and falls in love. Fast forward to present, he meets his first love’s doppelg?nger — a haughty starlet, and inevitably falls in love with her too.
The show has sparked all sorts of trends, namely one for chicken and beer as it’s the heroine’s fa一vorite food combination.
Resulting in over 3.7 million posts on China’s microblogging platform about “chicken and beer” in the weeks following the episode’s airing.
Even China’s A-list celebrities bought into the trend. Gao Yuan Yuan posted this photo with the caption: “First snow. Where’s my fried chicken and beer?”
In Jiangsu, a pregnant woman nearly suffered a miscarriage from binge watching the show late into the night and eating too much fried chicken.
A couple in Tieling, Liaoning, reportedly ate themselves sick for too much fried chicken and beer. They were both admitted to the hospital for pancreatitis.
In Chongqing, a woman supposedly dumped her boyfriend after he refused to buy her fried chicken in the middle of the night because he wasn’t as romantic as the show’s leading man.
Another story reported that a 50-year-old Chinese woman suffered a heart attack from late night binge-watching and getting too “emotional” over the storyline.
Allegedly, a manager in Fujian, ga一ve his employees the day off just to catch the series finale.
When Chinese officials met in Beijing this week, the show was the hottest topic of discussion. They debated why China hasn’t made a show nearly as popular.
The CPPCC National Committee even went so far as to deem that the fanaticism sparked by My Love from the Star has hurt the self-respect of Chinese culture.
篇三:来自星星的你
My Love from the Star has such an intense following, it’s got its fans acting crazy. The show debuted on December 18, 2013 and had an a一verage viewership of 24% in Korea. It then sold to China where it’s been viewed online through iQiyi, a Chinese video streaming platform, alone 14.5 billion times.