My country of birth is Romania so I decided to do this blog entry on Romania’s Internet usage. And after doing some research I discovered that only 33.4% of the population uses the Internet. (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats4.htm)
And this came as a surprise to me because coming from Bucharest (which is Romania’s capital and where the majority of people use the Internet) I thought a lot more people were online.
In the cities though, the percentage rises to 62%, for people using the Internet over the age of 18. The Internet is mostly used there for email and chatting purposes (52%), followed by search purposes (35%) and downloading music and movies (31%). Financial transactions are in sixth place with only 11% of people actually doing that online. This may be surprising to many but not really to me. I feel Romanians are still very afraid to use the web for banking or any other financial transactions. And this is because the systems used do not operate well. I know this happed to my father. He has a business and does quite of bit of financial transactions. I suggested that he used the Internet because it would be a lot easier for him and he replied that he did and the banking system wasn’t performing right so the money was lost. Situations like these make people resist the new technology and that is definitely not a good thing.
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