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Pew Internet Project Study on Internet Non-Users
cheezitmike writes "The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a new study on the digital divide and the declining growth of the Internet: "Pew Internet Project tracking data show a flattening of the overall growth of the Internet population since late 2001. Internet penetration rates have hovered between 57% and 61% since October 2001, rather than pursuing the steady climb that they had showed in prior years." You can also just read their short summary of findings or stories about the study in The Washington Post and The New York Times (free reg.)."
...there is a finite amount of pr0n out there, after all.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
You mean there are people who don't strive to be geeks?
This is indeed confusing.
Why slashdot? Why not?
That's still a pretty good climb... the Internet is maturing. Non-users will be assimilated.
Laws are for people with no friends.
that show the guy reaching the end of the internet are true after all?!?!
I live to gib...
"Well-to-do families are more likely to have access than less well-off families." Who would have guessed....
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
At the rate of growth that existed in the late '90s, I expected 2,718,281% of the population of the United States to be Internet users by now. What happened?
"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."
I thought the number of people on the internet doubled every 2 years. In 2020 ther will be the equivalent of 1,024 China's on the internet...
Stop replying. I'm afraid you might get some of your ghey on me.
Technofobes and old people are killing the internet!
Do what you can today! Donate your old pile of crap computer that you would have killed for 5 years before you got it to an old couple down the street.
Light up there lives!
Teach them to sell crap on ebay.
Why is it that so many of these studies only point to blacks, whites, and hispanics? Just where exactly do all the East Asians and South Asians fit?
Oh wait. We're all math robots and are always online.
Net Evaders: 20% of non-Internet users live with someone who uses the Internet from home. Some of these self-described non-users exploit workarounds that allow them to "use" the Internet by having email sent and received by online family members and by having others in their home do online searches for information they want.
Sounds like my old man... every so often, someone sends him an email, and I have to print out a copy and fax it to him from my office. I've tried to convince him to buy a computer but nothing short of psychiatric intervention will get him over his bizarre mental aversion to using one. Lazy old bastard.
Well, once people figured out they can go to thier friends house to downlaod pr0n, there was no need to get thier own service.
-Valiss
The rest are using AOL
Not noteable, IMO a rubbish article.
Any Non-Internet users on /.? How do you feel about the new Pew study? Post your responses below.
You are not the customer.
If they had written the paper correctly, there would be no need to right it.
"If, therefore, any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone."
~Epictetus
"The Internet? Is that thing still around?" /Homer
... because there is a sizeable chunk of older folks who will never, ever use the interent. My 62 yr. old mom is among them: she gets news from TV, communicates by phone and gets music from her Bose Acoustic Wave. Mention the internet and she (unintentionally) quotes Homer Simpson: "Is that thing still around?"
She is the quintessential non-internet person.
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Some 56% of non-Internet users do not think they will ever go online. These people are generally the poorer, older segment of the not-online population, and are more likely to be white, female, retired and living in rural areas.
Obviously this is the target market slashdot needs to cater to in order to meet its own growth requirements.
Site redesign and content change to follow.
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.