Pengguna Internet di Cina tahun 2009 meningkat 50% dari tahun sebelumnya, yaitu dari 233 juta ke 384 juta orang, lebih banyak dari jumlah penduduk Amerika Serikat. Masyarakat Cina di 60 kota2 besar ternyata menggunakan 70% waktu luangnya untuk ber-Internetan pakai PC yang menggantikan popularitas penggunaan TV.

Sering terjadi suami-istri hampir saja bercerai karena rebutan pakai Internet. Solusinya, mereka terpaksa beli satu lagi PC agar tidak berebut dan menghindarkan perceraian.

Kalau di Indonesia mungkin lebih banyak masyarakat yg pakai HP untuk ber-FB-an atau Chatting, sebab jaringan Wireless Internet Broadband masih lelet, kecuali yang pakai fixed line Serat Optik atau kabel.

Mana yang akan membawa manfaat lebih besar bagi masyarakat ber-Internetan pakai PC atau ber-FB-an atau ber-Chatting-an? Menurut saya, ber-Internetan akan membawa manfaat lebih besar dari pada ber-FB-an, sebab lebih banyak informasi yang lengkap yang dapat diperoleh masyarakat.


Berita lengkapnya ada dibawah ini.

Just how big (or small) a market would Google leave behind were it to pull out of China today? In January, China Internet Network Information Center, the country’s official domain registry and research organization, reported that by the end of 2009, the number of Internet users in China had touched 384 million, more than the entire population of the United States. That’s an increase of around 50 percent over 2008. Moreover, 233 million Chinese—twice as many as in the previous year—accessed the Net on handheld devices, partly because China’s cellular providers started offering 3G services widely last year.
The Chinese are obsessed with the Internet. People in the 60 largest cities in China spend around 70 percent of their leisure time on the Internet, according to a survey we conducted in 2009. In smaller towns, the corresponding number is 50 percent. The PC is fast replacing the TV set as an entertainment hub, and emotions run high over who gets to log on and for how long. In a small city in northwest China, for instance, a man told one of us that domestic squabbles over using the PC got so out of hand that his wife and he discussed spending, for them, a large sum of money to buy another machine—or filing for divorce. They eventually bought a second PC and saved their marriage.