Spam: How it is hurting email and degrading life on the Internet
Internet users are frustrated and unhappy about spam, as they see it making email less reliable, effective, and fun.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
WASHINGTON (October 22, 2003) — The recent explosion of email spam is beginning to take its toll on the Internet world. A new nationwide survey shows that 25% of America’s email users say they are using email less because of spam. Within that group, most say that spam has reduced their overall use of email […]
This dataset contains tracking questions about online activities. It also contains an extensive battery of questions pertaining to the volume of “spam” email, Internet users’ attitudes towards spam and the use of email filtering.
Internet penetration is not spread evenly over all regions, and users in different regions do different things online.
WASHINGTON (July 16, 2003) – In the first comprehensive national survey on the scope of health topics that Americans are searching online, the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that one in five Internet users has looked for mental health information, one in four has looked for health insurance information, and one in three […]