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Think about your average morning for a moment.  Chances are rather than getting up and going straight to find some sort of breakfast you wake up and head straight for your computer, BlackBerry, iPhone, or any sort of Internet device.  Don’t worry, it turns out you’re not alone in this early morning email/Facebook/Twitter checking, it seems that a lot of Americans are starting to do so.

According to Arbor Networks, a company that monitors Internet usage, Americans are starting to connect to the Internet as soon as they start their day.  Where Internet traffic used to spike mainly at night before most people started to sleep, now as soon as we wake up there’s a spike.  Facebook and Amazon both face traffic as early as 6 a.m., while most traffic skyrockets at 7 a.m.  It’s not just limited to Internet, either.  Verizon Wireless is reporting that there’s 50 percent more text messages sent between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. this July than the same month last year.

These findings, while interesting, aren’t exactly surprising.  Surely a decent number of those who visit this site have been doing this for a while now.  It only makes sense that we would want to check the various forms of communication we have as soon as we wake up.  There can be a lot that was missed while we sleep, with people who tend to sleep later or those in other timezones sending messages, updating statuses and whatnot overnight. 

Read [NY Times]