No doubt, Italians LOVE gatherings with family and friends personally, will keep that contact with their mobile. 
There however seems to be a serious difference of Surveys about the Italian use of the Internet and Computers.
The European Commission says that Italians ranked 23rd of 27 nation of the EU, and is was at odds with a parliamentary survey released in May which showed that more than one in two Italians surf the net.

ITALIANS SEEM TO SHUN INTERNET 
Italy News , Ansa, August 4, 2009 

(ANSA) - Brussels, August 4 - Italians love mobile phones but don`t seem to fancy Internet, according to a
report released on Tuesday by the European Commission.

The EC report said Italians ranked 23rd in the 27-nation European Union for "routine logging" to Internet
and "half of the population" has never opened a Web page.

Italians were also in last place in the EU for the downloading of music and videos.

Only 31% of Italian homes have access to broadband technology, well below the EU average.
However, Italians are still first in the world for the use of cell phones.

Italian communications experts say that one of the reasons for Italy`s wariness of cyberspace is that the
country`s population is one of the oldest in Europe.

Older Italians seem to favour mobiles but shun the Net. The EC report was at odds with a parliamentary survey
released in May which showed that more than one in two Italians surf the net.

Some 58.5% of Italians surf the Web daily for information, said the study, commissioned by a communications
committee on a sample of 2,400 people.

Just under three quarters of Italians (73.7%) have a home computer but most of the remaining 26.3% - housewives
over 50 or couples without children - said they`d "never" buy one even if there were government incentives.

Some 74.2% of this latter group said they wouldn`t use the Internet even if they had a computer.
 

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