Home Broadband Adoption 2007
47% of adults have high-speed internet connections at home as of early March 2007, up five percentage points from a year earlier.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
47% of adults have high-speed internet connections at home as of early March 2007, up five percentage points from a year earlier.
47% of adult Americans have a home broadband connection as of early 2007
Older adults are less likely than younger adults to go online, but there are exceptions — those who “feel” and “do” younger than their chronological age.
About a third of online teens say they have been targets of online harassement. Older girls and intense internet users are the most likely to report these experiences.
What forces will shape the internet in the next decade?
Older adults are still the least likely group to have basic internet access and broadband access at home. However, information specialists can design outreach plans that are targeted at certain groups dominated by people age 50+.
In 1998, 57% of non-internet users said they worry “not at all” about missing out on something by not going online.
Pew Internet’s typology of information and communications technology users tells us a lot about how far along we are — or aren’t — in the "information society."
In China, there is a virtual meeting place for people who have social connections to buy or sell.
12% of internet users participate in an online patient group.