7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?

Post by dominotw » Wed, Apr 07, 2021, 3:10 AM UTC

emodendroket wrote: post #33

xkeysc0re wrote: post #30

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This is very true. However it is certainly the subset I find myself on the most, ha. I think also for a lot of people, social media is the internet and almost inextricably so. How often do we see on this very site people bemoaning only visiting the same N websites when there's more websites than ever? I think maybe perhaps for me a "read-only" internet would be useful, like a feature phone in a way. Might have to go…

I stopped using Twitter for Lent a couple years ago. After the first few days I stopped thinking to look.

Post by zeb88 » Wed, Apr 07, 2021, 3:13 AM UTC

Post by gfxgirl » Wed, Apr 07, 2021, 3:19 AM UTC

throwawayboise wrote: post #42

after_care wrote: post #28

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Being on social media is only a subset of being online. Plenty of people are not on social media but still watch tv, bank, and get gps directions online.

Watching TV via the internet is not really "using" the internet IMO. I mean it is, but it's just the protocol on the wire. Otherwise it's not really different from when your TV was connected to an antenna or cable.

Post by randomdata » Wed, Apr 07, 2021, 3:29 AM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #34

xkeysc0re wrote: post #20

Honestly, I wish I could stop using the internet. I make a lot of things and enjoy sharing them because other people might find them useful. It has often led to wonderful and inspiring conversations. Yet it's obvious there's something very very wrong happening with American culture that began around the time of social media platform consolidation. "Being online" entails a distinct mindset and attitude that is incompa…

I've lost a few very good friends due to this. In-person and online interactions with the same person would vary wildly in tone and emotional intensity, like speaking to two entirely different people. The online interactions always pushed us apart, and the in-person interactions never failed to mend things, but of course those stopped happening over the previous year. I have to assume it's the same way with me toward…

Post by gremlinsinc » Wed, Apr 07, 2021, 3:31 AM UTC

Sebb767 wrote: post #24

samatman wrote: post #19

7% of Americans say they don't use the Internet when polled . Some unknown percentage of that is the Lizardman's Constant[0], some of them mean "not much", plenty of them use the map on their phone and don't think that's "using the Internet", probably a decent amount who use Facebook to look at pictures of their grandkids but figure they aren't using the Internet because they don't own a computer (if you told them a…

> some are retirees who only have a land line (and genuinely don't use the Internet). A lot of phone lines use VoIP nowadays, so if they actually use the landline to call someone, there's a good chance they are using the internet anyway (even if their actual endpoint is still analog, which, in itself, is already becoming rare).