{"id":7624,"date":"2021-05-13T05:58:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/?p=7624"},"modified":"2021-05-12T22:56:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T12:56:25","slug":"how-covid-19-changed-online-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/how-covid-19-changed-online-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"How COVID-19 Changed Online Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How has the way we use the internet changed over the past year?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2020-trends-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2020-trends-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2020-trends-150x67.jpg 150w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2020-trends-768x341.jpg 768w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2020-trends-124x55.jpg 124w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2020-trends.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>New data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hootsuite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hootsuite<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wearesocial.com\/au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We Are Social<\/a> reveals the impact that COVID-19 had on the digital habits of Australians.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surprisingly we still like email.\u00a0 With all the communications options available, Aussie\u2019s are sticking with the classics, with almost 85.5 of us sending email over the past month&#8230;higher than the global average.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using voice commands and search on mobile devices <em>isn\u2019t<\/em> big here with only 35.3 percent of Australian internet users aged 16-64 using these features, behind the world average of 46.7 percent&#8230;but as you may expect online shopping is booming with 76% of Aussies have bought something online in the past month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;ll find more great reading on this topic by diving into We Are Social&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wearesocial.com\/au\/blog\/2021\/02\/digital-2021-australia-we-spend-10-percent-more-time-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Digital 2021 Australia<\/em><\/a> report.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data from Hootsuite and We Are Social reveals the impact that COVID-19 had on the digital habits of Australians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824],"tags":[2035,1987,2077,1986],"class_list":["post-7624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-covid","tag-hootsuite","tag-trends","tag-we-are-social"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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