24 September,2009 01:23 PM IST | | ANI
People of Victoria can do without sex, car or even a partner, but not the Internet, a new survey suggests.
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The Optus Family Communication Survey provided a list of things to the Victorians to choose without which they could survive for a month.
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It emerged that seven out of 10 would rather give up their partner than internet.
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However, residents of NSW, South Australia and Queensland are less likely to trade their partner for the net, the Herald Sun reports.
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The list of things they were asked to rank in order included sex, car, mobile phone, annual overseas holiday and landline telephone.
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The survey further suggested that Victorian families have doubled and even tripled the use of Internet in the past five years.
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Apparently, kids aged 10 to 17 seem to use the internet for social networking than to help doing their homework.
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Nine out of 10 Victorians said web is the best way of obtaining new information.