世論 What Japan Thinks

Recently, japan.internet.com reported on a survey performed by JR Tokai Express Research looking at what people were drinking when they were on the net. 46.1% of the respondents were female, 23.9% in their twenties, 41.2% in their thirties, 26.7% in their forties, 4.8% in their fifties, and 3.3% in their sixties.

In Q1, in the “Other” category, two people admitted to boozing at work… I drink black tea and mineral water at work, and filtered tap water at home.

I’ve had an idea for ages that a wonderful device for home PCs would be a “surf-a-lizer”, basically a breathaliser for your PC. You set it up (when sober, of course) to require you to breath into the bag before opening certain programs or accessing certain sites, stopping you sending embarrassing emails, mad online shopping sprees, or logging onto an online game only to get your character savaged by monsters in an attack of beer-fuddled bravado.

First, 165 people said they always or sometimes drunk when using the internet at work.

Q1: At work, what do you drink when using the internet? (Sample size=165, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Green tea, oolong tea	127	77.0%
Coffee	112	67.9%
Mineral water	51	30.1%
Black tea	49	29.7%
Fruit juice	25	15.2%
Carbonated drink	23	13.9%
Other chilled drink	19	11.5%
Sports drink	14	8.5%
Yoghurt-based drink	9	5.5%
Milk-based drink	5	3.0%
Tap water	3	1.8%
Other	3	1.8%

Next, 257 people said they always or sometimes drunk when using the internet at home.

Q2: At home, what do you drink when using the internet? (Sample size=257, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Green tea, oolong tea	172	66.9%
Coffee	156	60.7%
Black tea	89	34.6%
Alcohol	60	23.3%
Mineral water	44	17.1%
Carbonated drink	37	14.4%
Fruit juice	37	14.4%
Other chilled drink	29	11.3%
Milk-based drink	21	8.2%
Sports drink	17	6.6%
Yoghurt-based drink	16	6.2%
Tap water	9	3.5%
Other	3	1.2%

Q3: What do you do on the internet when drinking alcohol? (Sample size=60, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Mail	54	90%
General surfing	45	75%
Reading news	22	37%
Shopping	21	35%
Auction	21	35%
SNS	11	18%
Watching YouTube or other movie contents	10	17%
Blog	10	17%
Online game	7	12%
2 channel bulletin board	5	8%
Bulletin board other than 2 channel	5	8%
Chat	4	7%
Instant messenger	3	5%
Skype or other voice chat	1	2%
Other	0	0%