Many regular users of the World Wide Web have long been tormented by the question: who and how uses their favorite Web. Everyone knows their passions and hobbies for spending time in the vastness of the global global network that connects many computers, servers and hosts ... But what are the rest of us doing on the Internet? What websites do they visit? How many people have similar preferences to my choice of sites and portals?
Of course, there are a large number of Internet users who are deeply indifferent to how they live and what the rest of their neighbors on planet Earth think about. They do not care what sites, forms, social networks they visit, how they have fun on the Internet. And really, what do they care? But it's great that not everyone is like that. After all, if not for a number of activists, we would not know many interesting facts. And they, whatever you say, brighten up our lives.
So, a group of experts of the World Wide Web, not engaged by any of the world's Internet giants, independent of Internet billionaires (at least they say so) gathered and compiled a rating of almost all types of entertainment on the Internet, which, in their reasoned opinion, are most in demand among the population of our planet, periodically visiting the created sites, services, portals, social networks, forums and other resources on the Internet.
I think few people will be surprised that social networks have firmly taken the first place. And this is no coincidence, because with their help, young people can easily, without leaving their homes, communicate with their acquaintances and friends without traveling far outside the city, have close friends in spirit - residents of other cities and even countries. After all, it is often difficult to find like-minded people next to you. And citizens of the age, including the elderly, use social networks to communicate with old friends from their past - classmates, classmates and colleagues from previous jobs. Where else, if not on the social network VKontakte, My World, Facebook, Twitter, Odnoklassniki, can you easily find your old friends and chat with them? But the older a person becomes, the more precious memories of youth are for him, since communicating with friends and comrades from distant past years, he, as it were, returns to these years, he becomes younger (at least for a while). That is, social networks deservedly, probably, the largest audience of users.
The second place was also predictably taken by online games. And where else to direct their mental potential and ingenuity to “lazy” guys and men who do not really want to go to the shooting range or attend the reconstruction of military battles. So the warriors play rpg games and shooters, strategies and quests ... Where can a housewife put her bored brain if she doesn’t have the same free and equally thinking girlfriend at her side with whom you can find a generally pleasant activity (we are not talking about finding a partner for sex) . So such housewives plant online gardens, start virtual farms or collect painted sunflowers ...
It is worth noting that fans of battles overtook connoisseurs of thought processes. Dota 2 games, as well as World Of Tanks, and, well, World of Warcraft have gone ahead in the social. survey. At the same time, these projects gather tens and hundreds of thousands of players of different ages from various countries on their sites.
In third place, you will not guess, are again the games. Only flash fun aimed at kids and teenagers. From the data obtained, one can draw an unsightly conclusion - we are surrounded by a large number of gamers and people with a lot of free time that could be applied to more real sectors of the economy, raising developing countries or feeding hungry children in the poor countries of the world. Of course, this is irony, but there is no joke without a grain of truth :-)
In general, it is worth noting that games are not always free, even if they initially try to convince you of this. As a result, you often need to buy something, renew it, and so on for absolutely real money. In addition, many really get hooked on toys, spending not only precious time on them, but also time that can be used with greater benefit for themselves, their loved ones and other people who need you.
Well, let's continue. Next in popularity on the Internet are the performance of music on online instruments, drawing, a selection of rhymes for poets, all sorts of quizzes, online walls of hatred, as well as complaints, anecdotes, video and photo jokes and photo-toads. Also, people are happy to use maps, including satellite ones, to look at the mother planet from the height of a satellite flight. Since we are talking about entertainment, we do not particularly analyze the commercial interests of users, namely online shopping in stores, online payment for housing and communal services and other services through payment services ...
Summing up, we will see that since the last sociological survey conducted several years ago, neither the priorities nor the most visited services have changed much. The main thing is that we do not see an increase in interest in entertainment in the form of reading online books or visiting libraries or reference books and other educational resources.
And since there isand there is still interest in games, it will not hurt to remind you that you should not be lured by tempting slogans about free games, supposedly winnings and other advertising slogans. We are not the only ones who know what is popular today. This information is also owned by professional businessmen who develop all kinds of entertainment in order to earn on addicted and gullible Internet users.