Stats on how Aussies are using the webnet
9 December 2008 
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Via Bob Crawshaw via Margaret Simons (hat tips), some interesting stats from the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s annual communications report for 07/08:
- 89% of Australians use the internet daily or weekly
- 55% of Australians go online more than eight times a week
- 40% of Australians read a blog or used a social networking site 07-08
- 39% of Australians between the ages of eight and seventeen have an online profile
- 72% of internet users go online to catch up on news, sports and weather - making accessing news number three in popular uses, below email and banking.
- Blogging & social networking; fastest growing internet applications.
- Two in every ten Australians belong to an online community or social network, with Facebook more popular than Myspace.
- One in every ten Australians has written a blog or uploaded content to the internet
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