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Seniors Spend More Time Online Than Anyone Else

May 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

This seems counterintuitive but seniors (age 55+) spend more time online than any other age group, according to a recent Jupiter Research report.

How times have changed since my days at AARP in the late 90s, when seniors were underrepresented online.  More than once, I heard the argument that seniors would never use the web, that “old dogs don’t learn new tricks.”  They would never give up newspapers and figure out how to use computers - how wrong and silly those ideas seem now.

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  • 1 j // May 21, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    Amen brother. My parents are on-line almost 24/7. I thought it would be me that needed an intervention. Not.

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