Lifestyle

While nearly all Internet users conducted some of their day-to-day activities online in 2004, most still defaulted to the traditional offline ways of communicating, transacting affairs, getting information and entertaining themselves.

This report analyzes the responses of more than 64,000 Americans to phone surveys in the past three years. It finds that 63% of U.S. adults now are online and many of them have built Internet use into their lives in practical ways.

Computers and the Internet are encroaching on the TV and the landline telephone as important information and communication tools for a growing number of tech-loving Americans, especially those in their twenties.

Amanda's presentation covered how teenagers, college students and their parents use the Internet.

John's presentation provides data on broadband penetration to homes and highlights findings from the report “The Broadband Difference.”

The presentation highlights our findings about how broadband users are different from dial-up users.

Those who have home broadband connections use the Internet differently from those who have dial-up connections. Broadband users spend more time online, do more things, and do them more often than dial-up Internet users.

As Americans gain experience online, they use the Internet more for their jobs, to make more online purchases and carry out other financial transactions, and to write emails with more significant and intimate content.

Women surge online and are even more enthusiastic than men about the way email improves their connections and increases their communication with key family members and friends