“I am not saying it, the data is saying it. Newspapers and television are more alive than ever”, says Pablo Foncillas, “what happens is that we have gone to see a different television and newspaper”. According to a survey, more than half of Internet users access the Internet for information and to watch television, videos or movies, as well as connecting to social networks to keep in touch with friends and family online.
“This is what we declare when they ask us why we go to the Internet,” says the business school professor. However, the data says otherwise. According to the Semrush measurement tool, the e-commerce giant Amazon is the fifth most used website, despite the fact that purchases do not appear among the main reasons for connecting to the network in surveys.
Another conclusion drawn from these data is that three of the websites that appear in the top 20 of the world ranking are porn despite the fact that "nobody or almost nobody" mentions this "majority use of the network" in the surveys. "People lie, but the data is there," she closes.
