What Americans do online
Fact recorded on: September 30, 2008. Categories: Internet usage.
| All internet users |
Dial-up at home |
Broadband at home (all respondents) |
Accessed internet away from home or work using WiFi on laptop computer |
Pays for premium home broadband services |
|
| Use an online search engine |
89% | 80% | 94% | 95% | 95% |
| Check weather reports and forecasts |
80 | 75 | 84 | 88 | 84 |
| Get news online | 73 | 61 | 80 | 86 | 88 |
| Visit a state or local government website |
66 | 55 | 72 | 78 | 76 |
| Look online for information about the 2008 election |
55 | 37 | 62 | 70 | 70 |
| Watch a video on a videosharing site like YouTube or GoogleVideo |
52 | 29 | 60 | 69 | 67 |
| Look online for information about a job |
47 | 36 | 50 | 59 | 56 |
| Send instant messages | 40 | 38 | 44 | 53 | 48 |
| Read someone else’s blog |
33 | 15 | 40 | 42 | 45 |
| Use a social networking site like MySpace, Facebook, or LinkedIn.com |
29 | 21 | 33 | 38 | 41 |
| Make a donation to charity online |
20 | 9 | 23 | 28 | 27 |
| Downloaded a podcast | 19 | 8 | 22 | 31 | 28 |
| Download or share files using peer-to-peer networks such as BiTorrent or LiveWire |
15 | 15 | 17 | 21 | 20 |
| Create or work on your own blog |
12 | 8 | 15 | 19 | 19 |
| Number of cases | 1,553 | 249 | 1,138 | 504 | 306 |
| Source: Pew Internet Project | |||||
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