Posted on 07/30/2015 8:09:03 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
About 15 percent of U.S. residents still do not go online, a statistic that has remained relatively unchanged over the past two years, The New York Times reports. Citing Pew Research Center data, the report says the percentage of residents who use the Internet grew to 84 percent in 2013 from 52 percent in 2000.
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The report says elderly people, who face both economic and physical limitations, are most likely to be offline, with 39 percent of residents 65 and older still not using the Internet.
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Elderly parents perhaps.
My 82 year old mother is online every day. She uses Facebook to keep in touch with family in her homeland.
My 75 year old in-laws are online and have smartphones.
I have a 78 year old uncle who texts me weekly using his iPhone.
Mom won’t go into the same room with dad’s computer.
Dad’s always forwarding me stupid junk mail.
My parents are never online. My dad (84) started a facebook account but deleted after two days.
I prefer an actual newspaper. But I have to admit that I get most of my news from FR.
When tv was at it’s height in say the 1970s. What percentage of households didn’t have a set?
Don't believe me? just click on my profile and check the pic I have there and do the math
I prefer an actual newspaper.
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So do I. But I live in an average large city, and so the local paper is maybe 10% of what a newspapers USED to be. It’s mostly left wing crap and enough junk mail inserts to fill a recycle bin in 3 days.
And with the price for this garbage increasing all the time - I fired them. No longer subscribe.
I thought I read somewhere that in 1992, about the time algore invented the internet, there were only about 100,000 or fewer users.
My 90-something year old grandmother is to busy watching baseball and playing cards with her friends. 70-something father just doesn't care - too busy puttering around the house, taking walks in the woods, etc. Some people still just like to live in the real world more than this one. I'm starting to think they are on to something...
15% are uncovered by internet care.
Next up, the FCC will require all Americans to get internet care coverage requiring a new law, the ICA or Internet Care Act in which, if you like your Internet Service Provider (ISP), you can keep your ISP.
It should save every family $2,500 each year.
Though you will be required to cover Internet Explorer Abortion services.
Wow. That many people in America actually have lives? Interesting. Now excuse me while I resume painting that bedroom.
My father-in-law has never been online, or read an email, unless someone printed it out for him.
When my mother-in-law died, he gave away the computer.
He has a “dumb” cell phone for phone calls only.
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