Based on analysis of comScore, Internet users spend time in accessing web-based email (not including PC applications such as Outlook), decreased two percent inNovember 2010 over the previous year, according to Cellular News reported on Friday (01/28/2011).
Even the Asia Pacific region experienced a sharper decline of 10 percent. The largest decrease occurred in Malaysia with 22 percent, India approximately 19 percent and 15 percent of South Korea. Meanwhile, Taiwan, Hong Kong and New Zealand would show improvement.
ComScore believes, the popularity of social networking continues to climb asignificant factor in this trend. Many Internet users now prefer to communicate via wallposts Facebook, Twitter, or other social media.
Evidently, last November, the time spent for accessing social networking sitesincreased by 44 percent worldwide, reaching 272 billion minutes. In Asia Pacificalone, user access time on social networking increased 16 percent.
Another cause of the shifting trends is a community web-based email is now moredependent on mobile phones to access email and communicate. In the United States(U.S.) for example, where mobile email access grew 36 percent, over the past year.Note similar thing happened in Europe that reached 55 percent and Japan by 53percent.