Fifteen Percent of Americans Still Don’t Go Online

According to the Pew Internet and American Life survey as reported in the Washington Post, 15 percent of Americans don't use the Internet, and an additional 9 percent only use it away from home.

While I didn't get my first computer (and then went online) until 1995 when I was in my thirties, I really can't imagine life without it now. Recently, a credit card I have eliminated paying at their site so I had to write a check and I literally couldn't remember the last time I wrote a check; we also didn't have any stamps. There used to be a magazine called Yahoo Internet Life and in every issue, they would compare doing a task the "old" way versus the "'net" way. In almost every scenario, the 'net way won; it made things like paying bills or ordering flowers easier. I'm sure the 15 percent feel their lives are full and complete without Internet access, but I can't see myself sitting down with pen and paper to write out a longhand letter. Do you know anyone who refuses to use the Internet?