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Some 34% of internet users have logged onto the internet using a wireless connection either around the house, at their workplace, or some place else.
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Some 34% of internet users have logged onto the internet using a wireless connection either around the house, at their workplace, or some place else.
“Web 2.0†has become a catch-all buzzword; the Pew Internet Project and Hitwise provide data to put it in perspective.
Online social networking is both about connecting to others through publicily displayed networks and about creating self-expressive content.
Young workers who have grown up with the internet, cell phones, video games, iPods, and digital cameras are different from their elders. Those who are now hiring the young “digital natives” need to know how their new world has shaped their behavio…
Is there a “confidant crisis” or just a new set of data to be taken into account?
The Project’s formal testimony submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Telecommunications Subcommittee for the Hearing on social networking websites and the Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006.
Online banking is holding steady as a mainstream internet activity, growing along with internet use generally, though not accelerating as have some other forms of online activities.
60 million Americans say that the internet helped them make big decisions or negotiate their way through major episodes in their lives.
The internet helps maintain people’s social networks, and connects them to members of their social network when they need help. 60 million Americans have turned to the internet for help with major life decisions.
New analysis of our data & others indicates that younger people are more likely to take action to prevent identity fraud & spyware.
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