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WASHINGTON — The distress of Internet users at spam has increased in recent months and growing numbers of Internet users are becoming disillusioned with email, despite the first national anti-spam legislation which went into effect on January 1. A new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project between February 3 and March 1, […]

Thanks go to Lee Rainie, Tom Spooner, and Peter Bell, who contributed editorial insights and invaluable number-crunching to this report.  Special thanks to my 94-year-old grandmother, Rosalie Yerkes Figge, who, when I showed her the Web in 1994, said, “I was born too early,” but then proved herself wrong by taking to email like a […]

Wired seniors want to keep up to date, whether that means emailing their children or staying current with the news. Communication tops the agenda for wired seniors – but they generally stick to email. As noted, email is equally popular among Internet users age 65 or older and their younger counterparts. Fully 94% of wired […]

WASHINGTON – The percent of seniors who go online has jumped by 47% between 2000 and 2004. In a February 2004 survey, 22% of Americans age 65 or older reported having access to the Internet, up from 15% in 2000. That translates to about 8 million Americans age 65 or older who use the Internet. […]

Many seniors have no interest in going online. Those who do want to get access face significant barriers. Eight in ten off-line seniors do not think they will ever go online.[9.numoffset=”9″ Lenhart, 2003.] They often live lives far removed from the Internet, know few people who use email or surf the Web, and cannot imagine […]

Here are the questions that were asked in the survey: SP1       Thinking about your email…  Do you have… (INSERT)?[1. In June 2003 this question was asked only of email users currently employed full or part-time. Trend figures are based on all email users, with those not currently employed included in the “no” response category.] SP2     […]