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About a Quarter of US Adults Say They Are 'Almost Constantly' Online (pewresearch.org)
As smartphones and other mobile devices have become more widespread, 26 percent of American adults now report that they go online "almost constantly," up from 21 percent in 2015, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in January 2018. From the study: Overall, 77 percent of Americans go online on a daily basis. That figure includes the 26 percent who go online almost constantly, as well as 43 percent who say they go online several times a day and 8 percent who go online about once a day. Some 11 percent go online several times a week or less often, while 11 percent of adults say they do not use the internet at all.
If my internet goes out for more than 3 minutes, my wife starts shooting at things.
What is this "Go online?" Is it clicking the dial button on your dial-up connection? Is it web? Is it email? Spotify? Netflix?
Isn't that bit obvious? Most adults in the US and even most teens have smart phones and even if they don't realize it their smartphone is constantly online for everything from their visual voicemail to their questions for siri to call a contact.
I am, only because I have to. I have to look at my phone all the time in order to answer emails that have to do with running my company. I'm super busy, all the time. I don't Face/Tweet/Chat/Gram. I'm dealing with problems and not fun stuff.
I'm always surprised when I see other people on their phones as much as me. I can't imagine being on a phone when not absolutely needing to be. Most people have serious gadget addictions.
I don't respond to AC's.
Faith based considerations about technology?
Poverty?
Paper insulated wireline is not able to support a connection?
Not able to use the net for a reason related to the user?
Do they work for the security services?
Work for the security services, as a contractor and they know their connection will be collected by the USA mil/gov on due to their security clearance?
Know another nation is going to spy on them and have been told not to connect at home for security reasons at home in the USA?
Are they city police and know that internal affairs is working with the FBI to collect on all city and state police?
Federal law enforcement is collecting all US state police and court workers?
Work for the city, state government and have seen the results of state and city "collect it all" efforts?
Voice prints in all inner city areas are collected by state and city police? 11 percent know not to be online.
Faith based cults with no loyalty to the USA that know not to be online after getting warnings from their members deep in the US telco and court system?
The CIA has a set number of US users who never had a social media account and make good spies with totally fictional backgrounds?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I posted this offline.
What does "online" mean? My computer is ONLINE 24x7, but that doesnt mean I am using it, My phone is online 24x7 but that doesnt mean I have it on my person. MY TV is only 24x7 but that doesnt mean I am watching it.
Uh no. "online" means "the Internet" to human beings.
Let me tell you something -- some of the ladies who are online pretty much 100% of the time and are constantly screaming about evil white males and how 100% of the planet's problems are directly caused by them are just as bad as the men and absolutely SHOULD be at the top of the crazy list. Everyone has seen a few of these folks -- seriously, they're plain nuts, and the Internet (especially social media) has given them a platform to vent this rabid kookiness and contributes to their instability. It's seriously unhealthy.
Isn't that bit obvious? Most adults in the US and even most teens have smart phones and even if they don't realize it their smartphone is constantly online for everything from their visual voicemail to their questions for siri to call a contact.
Exactly. And this question will likely be irrelevant within the next decade. Airplane mode will become unnecessary as WiFi fills the friendly skies, and you'll truly have to find the middle of nowhere to remove yourself from the ability to get online.
You read Slashdot and don't know what "online" means?
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I have been online since I got my own snail mailbox.
"Constantly" meant once every business day (at some moment that started to include Saturdays) I got updates I wanted: bills and newspapers, and unwanted: spam mail.
Nothing changed since then, email, text or weather app, all behaves the same way,
Only the definition of constancy changed.
Another thing that changed was variety of what is it that we are updating ourselves to, variety of utilities, variety of services, variety of news sources.
It does not make sense to ask how many people online, it make sense to ask: online to what? Where does this "line" on which we are "on" is leading to?
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It's more like 3 quarters, since most of the people report their location to Google, Facebook et al 24/7.
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I sleep some every night. I turned my phone off when I went to a funeral last week. And there was that power outage a couple months ago.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.