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20% of U.S. Population Has Never Used Email

Ezratrumpet writes "A recent PC World article notes that 20 percent of the U.S. population has never sent an email. Does this number over- or underestimate the actual number of people who know nothing of email? What are the implications of this statistic to our society? Or are these people just Luddites who mourned the demise of the telegraph and have also never used a telephone?"

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  1. Re:Households, not population by sgt_doom · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Exactly! And most likely those are the clowns who still support that Devil of D.C., Dick(less) Cheney and his smirking chimp sidekick, George Bush.

    Sadly, some Bush supporters were lost that fateful day of 9/11/01 - in the WTC towers.

    That would be those individuals who, after witnessing a jet plane fly into their building, hesitated to dial persons at the 911 center (with an IQ of 103) for advice on whether or not to remain in a building which had just been hit by a jet.....