Broadband equals web cams
p2pnet.net News:- One out of every six adult American Net users has gone online to view another person or a place via a web cam.
“That translates into roughly 21 million people,” says a Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted between February 21 and March 21 this year.
Moreover, on any given day, about two million surfers are checking out remote places or people by using webcams.
Pew says it can’t analyze the level of growth these figures represent because it’s the first time it’s been asked about use of web cams in its surveys. But it’s likely the use of web cams has grown in recent years for several reasons, it says:
Web cams are relatively cheap, a decent unit going for less than $30, and are easy to set up, and, "The spread of broadband makes it ever easier to display and access images from web cams on computers," says Pew. "Indeed, 19% of those with broadband at home have checked out web cam images, compared to 13% of those who have dial-up at home.
And there are growing numbers of ways that people and organizations use web cams, it points out.
Web cams allow users to capture digital video and immediately transmit it over the internet. They can be used for video chats and conferencing. They have been used in reality TV shows, to view remote and environmentally important locales, to increase surveillance of city streets and factories, to allow home buyers to view construction progress, to permit commuters to check out traffic hotspots, and in communications between U.S. military personnel in Iraq and their families. Webcams have also been used in collaborative contexts – connecting doctors, students, musicians and archaeologists across the globe – and in monitoring political candidates’ events.
- Sixty percent of those who have viewed web cam material are men, but. "there are no noteworthy differences in the use of web cams in other demographic categories," says Pew, adding:
- "Minorities" who use the internet are just as likely as "whites" to have viewed web cam images
- Net users in their 50s and in their 20s watch web cams in equal proportion
- Those online with graduate degrees and those with high school educations are equally interested in web cam viewing
- Those who live in relatively well-off households are as likely as those who live in homes with less income to have looked at web cam images
- "Non-parents" are as likely as parents to have viewed web cam material.
And No, the study doesn’t mention how, and by whom, web cams are used on porn sites.
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Pew – Use of webcams, June, 2005
June 22nd, 2005 at 4:47 pm
and all of them are watching some naked chick half way across the world using a battery operated device. Thank god for webcam pornography, uniting people of all ages, colors and creeds.
Sorry, thats just the first thing that popped into my head after reading this…lol. But when they just say “images” i can only imagine what most of these people are looking at.