2 Channel attracts business professionals too
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japan.internet.com reported that in the middle of October JR Tokai Express Research interviewed 330 people from its monitor panel on the matter of usage of bulletin board sites. Of the sample, 74.8% were male, 14.8% in their twenties, 41.2% in their thirties, 30.3% in their forties, 12.1% in their fifties, and 1.5% in their sixties. Note that one of the features of JR Tokai’s monitor pool is that they have a large percentage of business men, due in part to the fact that completing these surveys awards points for discounts on the Bullet Train.
2 Channel is a cess pit, quite frankly. I’ve visited there a few times myself, but the combination of heavy slang, both ordinary slang and 2-chan specifics, the general level of vitreol that anonymity promotes, and the utter ugliness of the layout makes me soon give up in disgust.
Q1: Have you ever viewed an internet bulletin board? (Sample size=330)
Yes (to SQ1) 86.1% No 13.9% As a point of reference, in April this year another survey of ordinary internet users revealed that 86.9% of the general internet population had read bulletin boards. This question reveals that these boards are just as attractive to business people.
Q1SQ1: What sorts of bulletin board have you visited? (Sample size=284, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage 2 Channel or other large bulletin board sites (to SQ2) 193 68.0% Personal home page bulletin board 186 65.5% 価格.com, kakaku.com or other word-of-mouth site 178 62.7% Yahoo! or other portal site bulletin board 176 62.0% Amazon.co.jp or other review site 140 49.3% Famous person’s or product’s official site bulletin board 96 33.8% Hatena Bookmarks or other social bookmarking services 36 12.7% Mobile phone-based bulletin board 30 10.6% Dating site bulletin board 20 7.0% Other 4 1.4% Q1SQ2: Which large bulletin board sites have you visited? (Sample size=193, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage 2 Channel 185 95.9% まち, machi, BBS 33 17.1% PINK Channel 9 4.7% あめぞう, amezou 7 3.6% あやしいわーるど, ayashiiwa-rudo, Strange World 4 2.1% ふたば☆, futaba, Channel 4 2.1% Don’t know or can’t remember 10 5.2% Other 3 1.6%
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