Americans Now Spend As Much Time Using Internet as TV [STATS]

    Americans are now spending as many hours online as they do in front of their TV screens, according to a survey released by Forrester .

The average American now spends roughly 13 hours per week using the Internet and watching TV offline,  it has been found ,based on its survey of more than 30,000 customers.

what are Americans doing online? Shopping, mostly. In a similar survey issued in 2007, a little more than one-third of online respondents said they were shopping online; now, 60% claim to do so. A little more than one-third also access social networking sites regularly, often through their mobile devices; two-thirds of Generation Yers report that they update a social networking profile at least once per month.

Blogging, listening to streaming audio and IMing prove far less popular, engaging one-third or less of the U.S. online population respectively.

In addition, Forrester expects that 2 million new households will be connected to the Internet by the end of the year compared to the end of 2009, and that 82% of households will have Internet by 2015. Broadband will have reached 5.5 million new households by the end of this year, meaning that more than 90% of connected households will have access to high speed Internet by the end of 2010.