Holiday lethargy

Every year around Christmas and New Year people pretend there will be a surge of users online because of people wanting to call their family. Of course there is a difference between “users online” and “calls”. Perhaps there are indeed a lot of calls on New Year, but according to the number of concurrent people online the contrary seems to be true, see the graph (adapted from a screen capture from www.nyanyan.to):

• Before that on weekdays users online fluctuated between 8.4 and 5 million users online,
  
• At weekends fluctuations between 6.8 and 3.7 million,
  
• And as you can see: on New Year between 6.1 and 3.2 million.
  
• Christmas was even worse! Maximum users online 5.7, minimum 4.2 million!
  
• On January 2, still a lot of people stay in bed (hangover?), therefore not yet the 8 million.

By the way: hurrah!!!! Skype Journal is online again with a post yesterday by Jim Courtney!