People Keep Expanding Their Internet Activity

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The next time everyone makes a big deal of the Internet, maybe it won’t be a bubble. Granted, you don’t see a lot of 23-year-olds becoming Internet billionaires just now. But that hasn’t stopped consumers from making the technology more a part of their daily lives. A report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project offers fresh data on the phenomenon.

In the popular imagination, the Internet is associated with the young. This obscures a simple fact: The steady aging of the population is what’s pushing up the rate of Internet penetration among U.S.

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