MyHealth, Circa 2007
Tagging, blogging, and social networking sites allow internet users to search for, catalog, and disseminate information.
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Tagging, blogging, and social networking sites allow internet users to search for, catalog, and disseminate information.
The base of the internet is broadening to include more people with less education than ever before, while older Americans are still overwhelmingly offline. Internet users who have experienced spyware act differently online from those who have not….
That’s the portion of campaign internet users — adults who used the internet during the 2006 midterm election campaigns to get political news and information and discuss the races through email — who also used the internet to create and share political content. These creators are particularly active in every type of online political activity.
Nearly two in five adult internet users in the U.S. (39%) have gone online to look for information about a place to live, up from 34% in 2004 and 27% in 2000.
51% of internet users ages 18 to 29 have looked online for housing information and 9% do so on a typical day.
More than half of internet users have taken virtual tours — nearly doubling the number who had done so in late 2004.
Fully 87% of online users have at one time used the internet to carry out research on a scientific topic or concept.
More than a third or 35% of online adults create content online, and 57% of teenagers 12-17 make their own content to post to the Web. Younger users and home broadband users are the most avid content creators, and most post their creations online …
Most internet users start at a search engine when looking for health information online. Very few check the source and date of the information they find.
“Web 2.0†has become a catch-all buzzword; the Pew Internet Project and Hitwise provide data to put it in perspective.
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