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Internet, Social Media Use and Device Ownership in U.S. have Plateaued After Years of Growth

posted by martyb on Monday October 01 2018, @08:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-do-other-countries-compare? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Pew Research:

The shares of U.S. adults who say they use the internet, use social media, own a smartphone or own a tablet computer are all nearly identical to the shares who said so in 2016. The share who say they have broadband internet service at home currently stands at 65% – nearly identical to the 67% who said this in a survey conducted in summer 2015. And when it comes to desktop or laptop ownership, there has actually been a small dip in the overall numbers over the last two years – from 78% in 2016 to 73% today.

A contributing factor behind this slowing growth is that parts of the population have reached near-saturation levels of adoption of some technologies. Put simply, in some instances there just aren't many non-users left. For example, nine-in-ten or more adults younger than 50 say they go online or own a smartphone. And a similar share of those in higher-income households have laptops or desktops.

The poor, the rural, the elderly, and those who couldn't care less are the hold-outs.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @09:02PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @09:02PM (#742478)

    No more exponential growth! Sell, sell, sell!!!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @09:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @09:45PM (#742503)

    No more exponential growth! Sell, sell, sell!!!

    You messed it up. The joke goes: "What will be the next big tech after cell phones? Sell phones? Sell ? SELL? SELL. SELL!"

    http://i.imgur.com/gk1JhpJ.jpg [imgur.com]

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @11:39PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @11:39PM (#742539)

    Market Saturation. Oh, what that? Ok, make current devices obsolete, like say push/force Windows 10, force OEMs to use the now proven insecure UEFI, keep up the Social Media division of society and the dumbification in edumacation... and the new sheeple will flock to Alexa, Cortana and Siri. Total control, achieved.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday October 02 2018, @11:46AM

      by VLM (445) on Tuesday October 02 2018, @11:46AM (#742718)

      now proven insecure UEFI

      It was probably designed that way by the NSA for obvious reasons.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @01:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @01:41PM (#742766)

    Oh yes, the mindset of journalism do seem to reflect that of a stock broker.