Most of the Israeli Internet users (96%) are using the Internet for information seeking purposes (Globes, 2003). The Internet in Israel is being accessed at an almost equal rate from school, home or the office. 51 % of Israelis above the age of 18 is using the Internet on a daily basis. When it comes to America, they ranked below the top 15 high users of the Internet. In a study conducted in 2006, the nations ranking after Israel in Internet use were Finland, South Korea, Holland and Taiwan. This data can be compared to American users, who spend half of this amount on the Internet per month. According to this study, they surf more on the Internet than any other nationality by spending an average 57.5 hours every month on the Internet (comScore, 2007). In 2007 it was shown that the Israeli population is high users of the Internet. 49 % of the people who are considered being high users of the Internet (i.e., use it several times per day) are college graduates and better educated (Fallows, 2004). Even today it keeps growing at a rapid speed (Joinson, 2002).Ī majority of people, who are using the Internet, have a positive attitude towards it as a tool for carrying out everyday tasks and to use if for entertainment reasons (Boase, Horrigan, Wellman & Rainie, 2006). Since this important step in the history of the Internet, it has been expanding quickly and it has attracted a number of different sectors in society, from commercial sectors to private ones. In the beginning of 1990, the Internet developed quickly and the different web browsers were released to the general public in 1993-1994. If one looks at the history of the Internet, it can be seen that it started to develop in the middle of the 1960s.
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