Generations Online - PEW Research

1. With every generation, there are more internet users. This is probably because if people don't start using the internet at younger ages, they're unlikely to start using it as adults and even later in life. with the Generation GI, the people who are now in their seventies, there's the lowest amount of internet users.

2. 12-17 year olds use the internet more than everyone else. The ages progressively decline in a steady pace where the oldest group of people, senior citizens, rarely use the internet in comparison with the rest of society. Again, this is probably because they went the majority of their lives without the internet being accessible and no longer participate in the business world so they don't take the time to learn and understand the new technologies.

3. However, the senior citizens that go online are primarily online because they want to communicate and send e-mails. As a personal story, my family has recently adopted FaceBook as their way of communication. My grandmother, her siblings, my dad and his brothers, their cousins, etc. all have FaceBook to keep in touch with one another and while it was once a site thought to be catering to the youth and only young generations, it's adopted into a site that many generations use and it's popularity has surpassed that of MySpace or any other social networking site.