Canadians are spending more time online than users in 10 other countries, a new report has found.

The report, 2012 Canada Digital Future in Focus, by the internet marketing research company comScore, found Canadians spent an average of 45.3 hours on the internet in the fourth quarter of 2011, up from 43.5 hours during the same quarter a year earlier.

That’s more than internet users spent online in the fourth quarter of 2011 in the United States (38.6 hours), the U.K. (35.4) and South Korea (30 hours).

Some countries saw significant decreases in internet usage in the two time frames. In the fourth quarter of 2011, Italians’ internet usage dropped to 18 hours from 27.7 hours in the same period a year earlier. In India, usage dropped to 12.6 hours from 21.8 hours.

France added more than 15 hours to their internet time, at 27.5 hours during the last quarter of 2011, up from 11.9 hours a year earlier. U.K. internet users added nearly 10 hours to their online time, jumping to 35.4 hours from 25.8 hours a year earlier.

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The ridiculous changes year on year lead me to believe this data is useless. Why the hell would the French more than double their average time, then next door Italians lose 1/3rd.

Hmm.
1. Seems to be based on a simple poll.

2. The article itself doesn't seem to make sense, repeatedly stating that the average web user spent "X"hours on the internet in the 4th quarter, then saying the average Canadian web user spent almost 1/4 of December on Facebook. I think there is some mistake in the units... the main data either being 45.3 days during the quarter... or it means 45.3 hours per week.

Fuck all else to do here in a winter without snow.

That's because they have nothing better to do.

Yup. Nobody really works here. We're all on facebook.

Not surprising... Their other form of entertainment involves Justin Bieber and Céline Dion so I also would spend all my time on the internet if I were from Canada