Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

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Internet and Technology

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    Use of web cams

    One out of six American adult internet users (16%) have gone online to view another person or a place via a web cam.

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    eBay Rides the Wave

    Our surveys now show that one in four internet users have tried their hand at online auctions, and that the absolute number of online auction participants has been growing along with the overall internet population.

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    Informed Patients

    Millions of Americans will welcome new access to industrial-strength health information — but they’ll miss the articles from one major journal.

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    Do-it-yourself Information

    Some 55% of adult internet users have looked for “how-to,” “do-it-yourself” or repair information online.

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    Internet Impact 101

    With all of the niche topics we research here at the Pew Internet Project, we often need to take a step back and look at the larger picture of how internet use is changing people’s everyday lives.

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    Health Information Online

    Eight in ten internet users have looked online for information on at least one of 16 health topics, with increased interest since 2002 in diet, fitness, drugs, health insurance, experimental treatments, and particular doctors and hospitals.