ruder finn, a u.s. public relations firm, recently conducted a survey on ‘why people use the internet’. the firms puplic relations cover healthcare, technology, consumer, interactive, media, arts and culture, and environmental programming. according to ruder finn, the most popular reason for going online is to “pass time”. other popular reasons were “education”, “connecting with others”, “researching” and “sharing”.

…take a look at the complete survey here.