The Occasional Internet

• Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2007
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• Author: pradhana
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• Filed under: Digital Content, Gadget, Handsets

Just because someone owns tech doesn't make him a techie.

A solid majority of Americans own PCs and mobile phones, but the gadgets play a minimal role in the lives of almost half of US adults, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's "A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users" study.

Nearly three-fourths of US adults surveyed had a mobile phone, and 68% had a desktop computer.

US Internet users engage in a healthy range of activities online, such as instant messaging or downloading digital content for a price. But the number of people who do these things regularly (as indicated by having done the activity "yesterday") is surprisingly low across the board. Only 4% of Internet users had downloaded paid music the day before the survey, for instance.

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