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Baby Boomers in the digital age

Lee Rainie – Director Pew Internet Project Silver Summit - CES

The changing Boomer audience: Then and now 2000

2008

40% use internet

74% use internet

<5% broadband at home

62% broadband at home

34% own a cell phone

72% own a cell phone

0% connect to internet wirelessly

43% connect to internet wirelessly

<10% use “cloud”

47% use “cloud”

= slow, stationary connections that are built around my computer

= fast, mobile connections that are moving to outside servers and storage

The changing Boomer role: Then and now 2000

2008

Boomers were 28% of the internet population

Boomers are 36% of the internet population

and 24% of the traffic on a typical day

and 33% of the traffic on a typical day

Boomer internet use intensifies: Then and now 2000

2008

24% online aver. day

52% online aver. day

<5% online several times/day 35% online several times/day 20% go online from time to time just for fun

>41% go online from time to time just for fun

2002

2007

34% say it would be “very hard” to give up the internet

42% say it would be “very hard” to give up the internet

33% say “very hard” to give up their cell phone

46% say “very hard” to give up their cell phone

Boomers are often just like other internet users 100

91

90

90

78

% of internet users

80

74

70

70 60

53

50

36

40

30 30 20 10 0

Email

Search engines

Health info

Get news

Govt sites

Research Religious Online jobs info ratings

Boomers and e-commerce 90

81 80

70

% of internet users

70

68

60

55

50 40

27

30 20 10 0

Research products

Buy goods

Travel reservations

Banking

Auction

Boomers and Web 2.0 90 80

% of internet users

70 60 50 40

38 26

30

17

20

16

13

11

10

7

0

Video sharing sites

Read blogs

Share creations

Post comments

Social network profile

Have website

Blog

Thank you! Lee Rainie Director Pew Internet & American Life Project 1615 L Street NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036 [email protected] 202-419-4500

Baby Boomers

January 10, 2009

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