Somehow I stumbled across this one: Stats Canada Summary of Daily Internet Use in Canada, 2005. The facts are kind of interesting, but moreso to me, because I think I was one of the people they surveyed.
For a while I seemed to be on the government’s list of people in the know, so I did a bunch of surveys over the phone, although I guess I was really just considered an “average Canadian.” Pffft. They don’t call anymore, which means I’ve either been promoted or demoted.
Anyway, this survey was about 1/2 an hour of questions, and I remember one part clearly - the part where the asked me what kinds of things I did on the interweb, but he didn’t read from a list - I had to name stuff like pay bills, read email, etc and he’d then check them off somewhere. I named some stuff, and he’d be like, “is that it?” so I’d name some more things, and he’d ask if that was it, and after a few rounds I got the feeling he was waiting for something obvious, and I thought I was missing something like “email” or whatever, but I ran out of items and we moved on.
About an hour later I realized he was probably waiting for me to say porn.
Anyway, read the survey results with that in mind, and try to figure out which category porn was under. Was it “Download or watch TV or a movie over the Internet?” How about “Any other personal non-business reason?” Or maybe “Ordering personal goods or services?”
Actually, every item on that list looks dirty after a while.
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