80% Of U.S. Adults Go Online
Internet usage in the U.S. has become extremely common. 80% of all U.S. adults go online according to a new Harris Poll. Web users also spend an average of 11 hours each week on the Internet Reuters reports."We're up to almost 80 of adults who now are online, or are somehow gaining access to the Internet. That's a pretty impressive figure," said Regina Corso, director of the Harris Poll.The study also found that Internet usage is lower in U.S. seniors - just nine percent of online users are 65 and older while 16% of U.S. adults are 65 and older.
The results reflect a steady rise since 2000, when 57 percent of adults polled said they went online. In 2006, the number was 77 percent.
When Harris Interactive, a market research firm, first began tracking online use among adults in 1995, the group found that only nine percent of the population -- or 17.5 million -- said they went online.
Posted on November 7, 2007
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