Study: One in five US adults does not use the internet

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One in five US adults does not use the internet at all, according to a new report from the Pew Internet Project. They don’t use email, read newspapers online, check out friends’ photos on Facebook or waste time watching cat videos on YouTube.

The main cause? There’s no good reason to go online, 48 percent of respondents told Pew researchers. “They don’t want to use the internet and don’t need to use it to get the information they want or conduct the communication they want,” the report said, according to CNN….

American adults who never go online tend to be older (59 percent of US senior citizens live internet-free), have less education (60 percent of high-school dropouts don’t use the internet) and be poorer (40 percent of people with an annual household income under $30,000 are offline), Pew researchers found, according to CNN…

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