Recently, it has been unveiled by the Broadband provider TalkTalk UK that there are more than 34% of people who stated that they spend time working and accessing work-related emails remotely during the holiday period. This percentage is almost equal to around 16m people. Although, the average amount of time which spent by the people during this period came out to be 3 hours and 18 minutes. Around one in ten admit that they use Internet for more than 10 hours.

Internet TV services are getting more and more popularity among the people. It has been stated by 20% of people that they use to watch and download TV from the Internet during the holiday period this year and spent around an average of 2 hours and 30 minutes in doing this task which compares to 28% of those watching clips on YouTube and 19% busy playing online computer games.

Mark Schmid from TalkTalk said:

“As recently as 10 years ago most of our time over the festive period was spent with our nearest and dearest, or slumped in front of the telly. Now we’re spending big chunks of our Christmas time playing games online, watching TV over the Internet or social networking. Now your Twitter followers know what you had in your stocking before you’ve even tucked in to your turkey!”

It further revealed that more than half of the people use to spend time in sending e-mails to their loved ones while around 40% are there who surf social networking sites. There were more than one in 10 who made calls to their near and dear ones by means of Skype. Only 3% people admit to accessing as well as updating their Twitter account during Christmas and New Year.