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The number of people in the United States who use the Internet increased steadily from 2000 until 2012, when the percentage of offline adults fell to 15 percent. Since then, despite efforts by the government and social service organizations to encourage Americans to get online, that number hasn't budged, according to Pew.
Why are some Americans so reluctant to sign on? A third of those surveyed who aren't online (34 percent) said they don't think the Internet is relevant to their lives, or that they're simply not interested in what the Web has to offer. Another 32 percent of people who don't use the Internet said the technology required to access the Internet is just too tough to get the hang of, and 8 percent said they were "too old to learn."
But some people said they don't use the Internet because they cannot afford to do so, according to Pew. The survey data showed that 19 percent of those not online cited the expense of Internet service or owning a computer as their reason for staying offline.
Facebook and Google have been in the news recently because they want to get everyone online. What if those people don't want to?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday August 04 2015, @12:17PM
I still managed to learn interesting things and pick up random skills.
On a slight tangent, in theory you can learn from TV but in practice its 99.999% formulaic filler, and once you know and understand the filler there's no point in watching anymore, and my tangent is I wonder when "the internet" will turn into that. Arguably we're already there, for the average youtube cat video watcher or compulsive facebook addict. I wonder if the remaining "good stuff" on the net will get frozen out in network-non-neutrality and SJW attacks and stuff like that.