Networked Workers
The majority of employed adults (62%) use the internet or email at their job, and many have cell phones and Blackberries that keep them connected even when they are not at work.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The majority of employed adults (62%) use the internet or email at their job, and many have cell phones and Blackberries that keep them connected even when they are not at work.
More than half of internet users have taken virtual tours — nearly doubling the number who had done so in late 2004.
More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites.
As more Americans come online, more rely on the internet for important health information. Fully 58% of those who found the internet to be crucial or important during a loved one’s recent health crisis say the single most important source of informat…
Only 16% of single American adults are actively looking for dating partners.
Some 55% of adult internet users have looked for “how-to,” “do-it-yourself” or repair information online.
14% of the 128 million American adults now online report that they downloaded music at one time, but no longer do so. About a third of these former music downloaders – 6 million adults – say that the RIAA’s tactics are the reason they stopped.
The percentage of American adult Internet users who say they download music drops by half and the usage of some file-sharing applications declines.
The number of American adults downloading music continues to grow and two-thirds of those who download or share files say they don’t care whether the files are copyrighted or not.
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