The pie charts illustrate the proportion of time younger and older individuals allocate to different internet activities, apart from email, in their spare time. In general, the two age buckets exhibited several disparities in terms of internet activities.While the young tend to play games and spend their time on social networking as well as accessing music more than their opposed age group, older people show a significant percentage in other activities—researching, making bookings, and purchases.
With regard to young individuals spending their time on various activities. Young people spend 18% of their time playing games, while the elderly allocate 6% of their time to this activity. Likewise, the proportion of time spent by young people in social networking constitutes 24%, making this activity the highest compared to the others; however, in the older group, access to such activity is 8%. Furthermore, there is a slight differentiation between older and younger people in accessing films or music, accounting for 17% and 21%, respectively.
By contrast, the older people dominated in remaining activities. The share of researching is 26% in the older group, while 20% in other age buckets. Similarly, the proportion of making bookings and purchases in older people is considerable, making 29% and 14% in order. In these activities, young individuals record a marginal gap compared to older people, with bookings constituting only 5% and purchases the percentage being 12%.