US Government Is Pissed Off That 10% of Americans Don't Use The Internet At All

GOD BLESS THAT 10%

For many Americans, going online is an important way to connect with friends and family, shop, get news and search for information. Yet today, 10% of U.S. adults do not use the internet, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data.

The size of this group has changed little over the past four years, despite ongoing government and social service programs to encourage internet adoption in underserved areas. But that 10% figure is substantially lower than in 2000, when the Center first began to study the social impact of technology. That year, nearly half (48%) of American adults did not use the internet.

Internet non-adoption is linked to a number of demographic variables, including age, educational attainment, household income and community type, the Center’s latest analysis finds.

For instance, seniors are much more likely than younger adults to say they never go online. Although the share of non-internet users ages 65 and older has decreased by 7 percentage points since 2018, 27% still do not use the internet, compared with fewer than 10% of adults under the age of 65. Household income and education are also indicators of a person’s likelihood to be offline. Roughly three-in-ten adults with less than a high school education (29%) do not use the internet in 2019, compared with 35% in 2018. But that share falls as the level of educational attainment increases. Adults from households earning less than $30,000 a year are far more likely than the most affluent adults to not use the internet (18% vs. 2%).

Rural Americans are more likely than those who live in urban or suburban settings to never use the internet, but the share who do not use the internet has dropped 7 points since 2018. And due in part to the share of offline whites declining since 2018, blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites to report that they never go online. (There were not enough Asian respondents in the sample to be broken out into a separate analysis.)

Despite some groups having persistently lower rates of internet adoption, the vast majority of Americans are now online. Over time, the offline population has been shrinking, and for some groups that change has been especially dramatic.

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I didn't come online till the early 2000s, used to listen to local radio stations to get my news, and from others who spread it by word. Back then it was slow as hell, had dial-up when I first got on… until 2008 or 2009 when they upgraded the cable lines and now its a lot faster. I still know 2 people who have never used the internet, one a rancher who I buy meat wholesale from and the other a friend who is retired too but he doesn't know anything about computers and never cared for them. Sometimes I wonder if I'd have been better off without the internet and just stuck to having fun naturally…… but… a lot of that is what got me into trouble too, like binge drinking and doing coke. I would not want to go back to relying on that for relief, too dangerous, too risky (especially now days when EVERYTHING is under heavy surveillance).

The problem with the internet is it can be addictive, whether you read news and shitpost here, or doing whatever it is younger people like to do with those apps. Internet addiction is the problem, and also so is HTML5 which is ruining the quality of the internet. I like sites like Rense, Natural News and Drudge Report because they're basic websites, I hate all those mobile-friendly sites with all that JS crap. Infowars used to be a regular platform but it is loaded to the brim with CRAP and I hardly go there anymore (and as far as Alex, he's just in it for the shekels now days anyway).

Leave the internet, escape the niggers and Killcen too. Got it.

Sure you can, but the thing is you got to find ways to occupy your time, and as time goes on more people are on the internet than off of it. Thats another catch 22. Even if you get off it, what do you do? DIY hobbies, charity work, homesteading, farming or ranching are all options. Healthy options that is. But the more society is dependent on the web, the more you become reliant on it to socialize or occupy some free time. My one friend who never had a computer, he fixes up and refurbishes old cars & trucks all day in his two garages. Thats how he occupies his time, traveling long distances to find and buy up spare parts, meet other like-minded car collectors to establish more connections, that kind of stuff.

So you can’t find a positive hobby without the internet? Not even reading?

I did, and that was prepping for SHTF….. but I've done almost everything I can and need done. I have nothing more I can do, outside building a bomb shelter in my backyard (too expensive and not necessary because I have a basement thats pretty secure already). I like finding other things to preoccupy my time now and one major way is reading and posting REAL NEWS here.

Explain.
Do you use it? I do.
It blows HTML out of the water. What do you hate about it? You do not understand it so you are afraid of it? Somebody told you it was bad so you believe them? Was it Jim Willie? His site proves he does not deserve to have an opinion on the internet. He knows absolutely nothing about it, and I don't think you know much either. You are a "believer". Believers generally cannot think for themselves. They need an outside authority figure to tell them what is REAL and what is not.
On to Javascript. You fucking idiot! Do you use Javascript at all? Then STFU! I used to be like you. Blocked ALL scripts. The internet moved on without me – became beautiful while I only saw ugly. You know what worked for me? Educating myself. I learned some JS (node is awesome!), then I began to use different tools and the internet opened up like a beautiful flower to me! Now I know the difference between malicious scripts and frames and those that are necessary to the proper rendering ulof a page tge way thecweb designer designed it with, yes, everybody's devices in mind. I became a realist rather than a paranoid fool. I dropped blunt intruments like NoScript and learned howvto use uBlock Origin correctly, in conjunction with uMatrix. Now the internet is both beautiful AND semi-safe for me.
Know the safety levels you must employ for different kinds of online activities and enact those protocols, but don't go overboard!
I'm not tearing you apart, but fear is a terrible foundation upon which to build anything worthwhile, and I will not sit by and tolerate the spreading of it for uninformed reasons.
Also. Be a realist. 90% of the people are using ALL the different devices, so web designers have to design websites for them, that are usable for them. Fuck Jim Willie with his basement XP setup and literally the worst designed website on the planet and all his kind who are afraid of a little Javascript and maybe some bootstrapping! I'll be writing some HTML5, JS & CSS this very morning! I am unafraid. I would also be more than happy living alone in a cave in the Himalayas with no technology whatsoever! May end up there. But for now I will express myself, not from a position of fear or righteous indignation, but from a position of Seeker. I search for Truth because I "know" nothing, "believe" nothing. I educate myself. Constantly learn. Those who already supposedly "know" don't know shit. The only thing worth knowing is that one does not know anyway!
Alright, enough out of me. Gonna go learn more HTML5 and Javascript. You can learn both for free on Mozilla. Even reading the first page would be a good start…

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduction_to_HTML

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript

You don't have to learn anything ever about anything if you don't want to, but if you desire to be taken seriously you do. You have no right to an opinion if you have not done the work to form it properly. Otherwise anybody has the right to tear your uninformed opinion to pieces. That's just the way it is. Perhaps being super attached to opinions isn't the best idea. They are not a solid foundation upon which to view TRUTH in all Her Naked Glory.
May Truth reveal Herself unto you, after you make the effort first. She expects confidence. Then, and only then will She unveil Her secret inner ardour…

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Essentially, the internet is no longer a place for "nerds," as in "smart people," but instead, it is a completely tamed place to indoctrinate, brainwash, and spread propaganda. There is no reason to stick around.

Even though the internet used to be associated with smart computer nerds, they have moved onwards. The smart people quit Facebook and the other popular websites, and left Zig Forums years ago, except for a few. Like me.

But even I will be going soon. The nerds are about to integrate back into society, and it'll be the normies who are addicted to stupid technology.

JS is filled with vulnerabilities and the scripts on most HTML5 platforms are GOD AWFUL, they can even slow down or completely freeze up your browser too! Thats not good online experience. I like things basic, I don't mind some pics, but keep it basic and as long as its not filled up with junk JS scripts I'll proceed to use the services. Nothing turns me off more than entering a website with 70+ third party scripts and 2 or 3 objects being blocked from Noscript and slowing down the speed of my connection. That shit is total cancer!

Well God bless you too user. My tip to you is to figure out how to homestead, find some cool DIY hobbies to keep yourself preoccupied and consider moving out to the beautiful country side, somewhere where taxes are cheap and because of lower population growth the land is too.