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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @11:02PM
I have multiple family members (parents and their siblings) who are 80+. What on earth do they need the internet for? Most of them don't even watch TV, it is all phone and radio for them. They probably wouldn't take it even if you gave it to them for free.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2015, @12:16AM
Must be nice.
I'll assume those folks like Reactionary talk radio.
Most people of a certain age can't find music they like via broadcast media.
There are 3 "Country" music stations here in the L.A. area.
What all of them play is Top40 pop music with a bit of twang.
I have tried listening and they never played Haggard or Jones or much of anything I recognize as Country Music.
To get twangy music that I like, you have to stream it.
The kind of music my Mom likes hasn't been on any radio station anywhere near where she has lived since about 1963.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2015, @07:26PM
Actually, one is nothing but NPR and the rest listen to the local classical station.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2015, @09:06AM
PORN of course!
if dirty old men knew about the sick twisted shit you can watch online they would be fapping away as hard as any young guy