A survey was conveyed by the National Institute for Informational and Communicational Technologies in Japan, an attempt to estimate if the Internet has overtaken the place of the newspaper as a main means of information. According to the appeal, in which 2 000 people (between the age of 13 and 69) took part, the average Japanese spend about 37 minutes a day in the global information network, which indicates a rise of 5 minutes in comparison with last years data. On the other hand the time spent in reading newspapers is reduced from 33 to 31 minutes per person a day. The more frequent use of the Internet is closely connected to the age of every particular user. For example, teenagers spend an average of 108 minutes on line and spare five times less time in reading newspapers. While the elderly still prefer to read papers and devote 58 minutes of their everyday routine and only 8 minutes for the global net.
