How many Chinese are addicted to the internet?

Where did I leave that darn computer??


Are the Chinese addicted to internet? 

Oh Journalists!  Or should I say editors?   Here is a story about China and the internet and they used the word hooked in the title but they don't mean addicted, they mean connected... Darn!   According to the article, 34.3 percent of the Chinese are using the internet.  Tsk. Tsk.  Hooked gives the impression that the Chinese are addicted and that would have been fascinating.

Reading through the article they do give some useful and interesting tidbits of information including:

1.  There are 53.11 million bloggers in China!  Holy Crap!  That is a lot of people writing, how do they censure them all?  That must be a full time job of some special ministry of the government go create computer programs to scan all those blogs.
2. Chinese are connecting more with their computers than with their phones.  I personally can understand that.  It is so much easier to surf and do things on a larger screen.  I only surf the web when I have to on the phone or use specific applications on the iphone to access particular websites (like Vente-privee my favorite shopping site... if you need an introduction, send me your email and I will enter it into the site so you can start shopping like a fiend!)
3. The survey was done using 60k Chinese.  Although that is a very small percentage of the people actually using the internet, that is a larger database than most surveys use (Surveys of less than a 1k should be banned)
4. Chinese spend around 2.6 hours a day on the internet.  Hmmm, since my company is an internet company and I blog and vlog, I spend WAY more than 2.6 hours on the computer and the internet.   Luckily my internet is superfast, I would be very upset if I had to use their SLOW internet ( 100.9 kbps, kilobytes per second) which is probably why it takes these 53 million bloggers 2.6 hours a day to just get their ideas online.