20% Of Heads-Of-Households Never Sent An Email
May 18, 2008Twenty million households, or 18%, are without Internet access, according to a new study. Seven percent of those say they plan to be online within a year. Many Americans just don’t see the need for the technology. How is it that once we use it we can’t live without it?
George Bush must be in the 7 percent.
How bout them internets George!
I think many of the people who don’t feel the need to get online are the same people who have never sent an e-mail. Probably mostly senior citizens who don’t know the first thing about it.
The reason I’m guessing that once they get it, they can’t live without it, is that they discover the possibilities it offers: the ability to keep in touch with loved ones who don’t live nearby, use of eBay, Google, and YouTube, etc.
I wouldn’t say that there is a “need,” any more than there’s a “need” for TV. But, if something had to go, TV would be out the door first. (And TV may be on the way out in any event, because for the 98% of programming I never watch it really isn’t worth the expense.)
RC~ I moved 5 months ago and have yet to order cable or satellite. I never would have thought it possible, but all the time I spend on the computer, I’m able to watch many of my shows online. Only prob is my 4 year old… and his cartoons… So I am going to order it soon.
For some people there is a need for the internet, especially if their job requires full or partial tele-commuting.
Lol, Jerry. I haven’t gotten used to reading your comments… I used to skip past them. What’s gotten into you, anyway? You’re acting all open-minded and stuff. It’s f’ing scary. Next thing you know, Suntan will be blogging about falling in love and marrying a black woman.
(For RENO 911! fans- have you seen the episode where the KKK guy wears his robe to the carnival, and Dangle and Junior are called out there… they get there and a black lady is screaming and all upset with him… come to find out it’s the KKK dudes girlfriend, and she was upset b/c she thought he was with another woman, and the other KKK guy rips off his robe and starts playing the violin, and the first one drops on his knees and asks her to marry him. LMAO)
Have you ever tried to put a computer/modem in a back pack then jump wire feces on the mexican border? its not easy! after (they) can get a replacement computer,you will see more e mail.
Hey, we don’t have a computer!
My guy wants one, and my little dude wants one, but frankly it’s not a necessity. Paying the rent; wholesome organic food; quality toys, books, and clothing, these are the things that matter for our family.
We both work part-time so that we can spend more time as a family, playing music, hanging out with friends…
And look: I can get online! Often enough, anyway.
part-time meaning we have hardly any money…
I went out with a black chic once. Smoked dope with blacks. Drank with blacks. Felt closer to the black community in the 70’s& 80’s than I do now.
Leave it there for now.
here in deep south texas, there are some school districts that post their job openings online and around here, not many homes have internet services so many of their school openings get little attention.
From example http://www.LaJoyaISD.com , this school district gets very few people applying for jobs, not because people don’t want jobs, its because all applicants have to apply online and the majority of the people around here, don’t have internet services to apply.
Other surrounding school districts post their job openings via newspapers, saying it is better to reach people looking for jobs.
Truly, the new generation of kids know everything when it comes to the internet while their parents don’t know much.
Woah, woah now, lay off my boob tubez -I gots to have my TV.
Computers are fantastic and all, and let me do so many amazing, wonderful things but one step in front of my Blu-ray powered, 1080p 50″ Pioneer plasma with $1,000 surround sound system and even the brightest moniter cowers in cowardly shame.
Shameful.
I daresay that jumping “wire feces” would be difficult irrespective of the location.
But thanks for giving me a reasonable excuse to use the word “daresay.”
CC: Just consider all the programming coming in on the cable 24 hours a day that you’re never going to watch simply because you can only watch one thing at a time, and they make us pay for all this stuff we’re never going to watch. So we spend a hundred bucks a month to make the business model viable. And for what? We could be watching YouTube for the next 20,000 years and not run out of content and a lot of it is no worse than what cable delivers.
Sky~ do you use someone else’s computer or use your cell phone?
Jerry~ Interesting, very interesting… You were a hippie weren’t you? LOL
Louie~ I wonder why they do it that way? Is it to make sure a certain “type” of teacher applies?
RC~ LMAO The way Mutton jokes, I don’t know if that was a typo or not! Also, I really miss watching LAW&ORDER, CSI, and the line-ups on A&E, HISTORY, USA. YouTube and other sites definitely keep me busy, but I’m hurtin’ for my crime/real life drama shows. Also, my son needs cartoons. They’re a great babysitter while I’m cooking or in the shower.
me: library and friend’s
wire feces= ow!