One In Five U.S. Adults Do Not Use the Internet

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According to a new poll from Pew Research, the Internet is as popular as ever overall, but one fifth of the adults in the U.S. do not access the Internet at all.

Age, household income and education have remained the strongest positive predictors of Internet use since Pew started tracking these numbers.
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It's the old people. Always the old people. Sorry, Domo. :D
 
How many young people access their internet only through 'internet for dummies' devices (aka smartphones and tablets)?
 
I think those people look like this.

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My uncle never used the internet till about 4 years ago. He taught himself how to use the computer and even hook one up when he was like 50. I thought that was pretty impressive.
 
Just talked my mom into getting a laptop, (she's 68), still no internet tho, she said she wants to learn how to use the laptop first. First night she had it, it took me 20 minutes over the phone to get her to shut it off properly, but I am proud of her for finally getting and learning to use one, baby steps I guess, next will be the internet :)
 
most of those 1 in 5 people are probably proud of it too. Just wait 20 years and they will be all gone
 
zeroumus said:
most of those 1 in 5 people are probably proud of it too. Just wait 20 years and they will be all gone
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It's never must to have so who cares, there are people who don't own computers, TVs and such a things at all, which I consider impressive especially with modern world being obessed by crappy stuff that happens on TV and internet together.
 
Acer_Sheep said:
It's never must to have so who cares, there are people who don't own computers, TVs and such a things at all, which I consider impressive especially with modern world being obessed by crappy stuff that happens on TV and internet together.
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it is impressive actually. imagine one of us trying to resist everything electronic. It would take a complete break down of society to force me to give up these things.
 
xBanzai89 said:
My uncle never used the internet till about 4 years ago. He taught himself how to use the computer and even hook one up when he was like 50. I thought that was pretty impressive.
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50 is not old (at least for most people).
Besides, I have over 30 years of experience working with PC's,
more than any of you young whippersnapers :)
 
Thats all the fucking dirty amish hippes in the USA that live in the mountians and grow a pot supply to live off.


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Just say no to hippes.
 
Cube said:
Thats all the fucking dirty amish hippes in the USA that live in the mountians and grow a pot supply to live off.


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Just say no to hippes.
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I've spent a couple of winters living outdoors in the Rockies, at altitude, and I'm proud to say I'm a hardcore "hippie." I'm still trying to figure out what a hippie is exactly, but people keep thinking I am one.

P.S. I bought my first computer at age 9 (or 10?) with lawn mowing money, an Atari 400 circa 1982.
 
Paul_Johnson said:
I got panhandled by an individual surfing the web on their iPad a few weeks ago. I don't even have an iPad.
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I live in an area with such poverty, that the kids that my fiance teaches have to worry about saving enough of their school lunch, so that they can have dinner that night. They don't have internet. These kids don't have iPads either. I think you got scammed.
 
Motivator said:
I live in an area with such poverty, that the kids that my fiance teaches have to worry about saving enough of their school lunch, so that they can have dinner that night. They don't have internet. These kids don't have iPads either. I think you got scammed.
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The only person getting scammed would be those that hold a one dimensional view of what poverty looks like. My home town poverty rate in the last census was ~33% ;)
 
You have to wonder, with a poverty rate of 33%, how much of that is self induced? I see people driving nicer cars than me, wearing nicer clothes than me, tapping away on a nicer phone than I have, and they are standing in line at the grocery store using food stamps and WIC...
 
I've got an 80+ year old Great Aunt whose been online since ~2000. AFAIK she never was any sort of geek when younger and that her primary motivation at the time was that her grandkids had all moved out of state and weren't delivering printed baby pictures often enough. :D I'm not sure if she, or they, bought her first PC.
 
So what are those 20% going to do for news when newspapers become too expensive or impractical to keep printing? Other than what they see on TV news which is only shown at certain times of the day.
 
Scooter30 said:
So what are those 20% going to do for news when newspapers become too expensive or impractical to keep printing? Other than what they see on TV news which is only shown at certain times of the day.
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OMG how did people survive before the internet? Its amazing we were able to evolve at all and crawl up out of the muck without lolcats and Warcraft!
 
Nside said:
You have to wonder, with a poverty rate of 33%, how much of that is self induced? I see people driving nicer cars than me, wearing nicer clothes than me, tapping away on a nicer phone than I have, and they are standing in line at the grocery store using food stamps and WIC...
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And I bet they were buying filet mignon steaks too! :rolleyes:
 
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