Here, there's no pretension about surfing mainly to chat, email, IM, or just plain surf and socialize. That's why the majority of the customers at the nearest coffee shop are high school students along with college students.

It has to be socializing because just about every house here in our area have fast DSL or cable broadband. Most people can surf from the privacy of their own homes. Yet, they choose to surf at the coffee shop where the minimum order costs at least $3.

I saw the same thing in Japan and Europe as well. If the Philippines is headed towards the same trend then, more power.