Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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

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.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 01 2018, @09:19PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 01 2018, @09:19PM (#742489) Journal

    Laughing at your post - sometimes the really obvious is just invisible to the brain trusts.

    Did they bother to correlate desktop/laptop ownership to console ownership, and then to smartphone ownership? Maybe some people have one device, and they don't see any reason to get another device to perform many of the same tasks? A lot of millenials see little reason to own a desktop, when they have their smartphones that can do *almost* everything they would use a desktop/laptop for. A lot of older people find that their old hardware satisfies all their needs - why get a litle bitty computer? Mobility isn't that important to them.

    And, no mention is made of shared devices. If one person in a family owns a device, and another person owns another device, you can presume that both persons have "access" to both devices - along with all their close kin.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Insightful=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   3  
  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @03:10AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @03:10AM (#742620)

    " A lot of older people find that their old hardware satisfies all their needs - why get a litle bitty computer? Mobility isn't that important to them."

    I'm "older" and need mobile phone, email and SMS. But thanks for being so gracious to tell me what I really need, you condescending twit.
    OTOH I don't give a shit about Fuckbook, Shitter or Instasuck.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 02 2018, @02:35PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 02 2018, @02:35PM (#742799) Journal

      Maybe you should turn your hearing aid up? "a lot of older people" does not mean "all old people". The only thing that applies to all old people is, they wish they hadn't aged so damned quickly.