Americans can't live without the web – but social media is a different story. New Pew study shows US an increasingly digital society, but Americans view social media and the internet very differently...
Eight in 10 US adults say they use computers somewhere in their daily lives, and nine out of 10 use cell phones to get on the internet, according to Pew.
New data from the Pew Research Internet Project illustrates America’s embrace of and increasing reliance on the internet since the 1990s. More than half of Americans 53% admit they would find the internet “very hard” to give up, compared with 38% who thought so in 2006.
The survey also shows that Americans may still view participating in social media, accessing the internet and using email as entirely different experiences. For example, when people talk about “digital detoxing”, the internet as a means of consuming information isn’t on the receiving end of the vitriol – just the parts of it that serve as a means to communicate with others. But, paradoxically, communicating with others is what Americans appear to enjoy most about the internet. Seventy percent of internet users say they have been treated kindly by others online, while a quarter of people reported having experienced abuse. Women tend to experience more of the extremes, while people age 18-29 seem have seen it all, indicating a unique adaptability among younger Americans. In other words, America, don’t believe all of the bad headlines you read about the internet ruining our lives, making us dumber and destroying our social relationships. We couldn’t live without it if we tried.
- Internet since the 1990s.
- More than half of Americans 53% admit they would find the internet “very hard” to give up.
- Digital detoxing.
Nearly, almost every country has access to the internet and is available across the world. The common demographics attracted to the internet is mostly teenagers commonly using popular social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter etc. I think it would be hard to give up the internet as it has become the most important source of everyday life, it can impact an individual in many different ways for example teenagers access the internet for social sites, working people for their business work and more. Moreover using the internet could have its advantages and disadvantages too as it could be used for good purposes such as work, educations, making friends or a negative effect to some such as abuse, paedophilia, bullying.
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