It is interesting to consider actual user profiles as reported for example by Experian Marketing Services; it shows that assuming a high internet usage as being unproductive is a rather implausible assumption—with social networking standing for more than a quarter of online time and shopping and entertainment for another quarter. Pure business usage is listed as a mere 5 %. Therefore it is more adequate to assume the unproductive share of internet usage to be in the range of 20–50 %. From a different perspective it can be said that every 10 % of internet usage that is spent productively during internet usage generates an additional 1.3–4.6 % of GDP that is not part of the official GDP statistics and should be considered as well. If the internet value-added time share were 20 % we would already come close to 10 % of GDP in some countries. Here further research is needed on the time allocation of private households: As these invest more in software and advanced