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EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AT 6 P.M. (EASTERN), MONDAY, JULY 16, 2001 (Washington) — Survey work by the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that there is considerable variation in the Internet population about how much time people spend online. Overall, online Americans who are using the Internet more make up a greater proportion […]

Background on the Pew Internet Project and its surveys of Hispanics The results presented in this report come from a year’s worth of research about how American adults use the Internet and how they feel about it. The Pew Internet & American Life Project commissioned phone survey work from Princeton Survey Research Associates that began […]

Online activities Online teens, particularly older ones, are omnivorous Web users. They sample a large variety of activities online. They particularly resemble the adult newcomers to the Internet that we named “Instant Acolytes” in the fall of 2000.[13.numoffset=”13″ See https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2000/New-Internet-Users.aspx] Instant Acolytes and teens of all experience levels alike are enthusiastic Internet users, embracing the […]

Friendship and the Internet Many American youth say that Internet communication, especially instant messaging, has become an essential feature of their social lives. For them, face-to-face interaction and some telephone conversations have been partially replaced with email and instant message communication. Relationships that once might have withered are now nourished by the ease and speed […]

A general portrait of wired teens “I multi-task every single second I am online. At this very moment, I am watching TV, checking my email every two  minutes, reading a newsgroup about who shot JFK, burning some music to a CD and writing this message.”  — 17-year-old boy Introduction The Internet is the telephone, television, […]