Do about 10% of seniors use the internet?!?!?

Seniors are not idiots as you may think. ( going by your previous questions, targeting the seniors) I know many seniors who use the internet, & it's far more than 10%.

Well I am a Senior Citizen and so are my friends and they all have computers and use the internet - so I think it is probably a lot more than 10%! I personally have used a computer (and the internet) for the last 10 - 15 years and I am 66 years young! CJ

I got my first computer in 1992 and went online the first year that the Internet became available to us. I don't really remember when that was-- maybe 1994 or 1995. I do remember that we couldn't use our MacIntosh computer because it had only 2mb of memory. We had to upgrade to install a dial up connection.

I'm 58 years old and use the computer and the Internet daily for personal and business purposes. I just upgraded to a MacBook Pro because I love playing with the graphics programs. All of my friends own computers, and all use the Internet, so your 10% estimate is off by 90% in my circle of friends.

You need to use your own computer to do some research so that you'll get your facts straight next time and avoid asking an uninformed question. That's the problem I see with so many impatient young users. You have the hardware, you just don't take advantage of its capabilities to improve your knowledge base. Sad.

I have used them at some of the jobs I had. I have used them at other peoples house. I bought one for myself a few months ago. We wanted have what we needed on a more daily basis. I had never set one up or anything on my own. I did it.

My husband says that some of the people he works with can't do an invoice or anything if the computer goes down. I know some people can't count back change. I can remember punch cards. The husband of one of my co-workers, owns a computer repair business. He is 61.. A lot of the customers I see in the restaurant use the computer for travel, medical advice, emails. We even use the webcams.

Oh no, the percentage is much higher than 10%. The average seniors that I personally know have used the computer and internet for approximately 15+ years and they are still teaching me how to use my computer. They are more computer savy than you assume.

My first experience with the computer was in 1998. I was 44 at the time, and really questioned whether we should get one, but my husband wanted it do to his work on it, keeping better records on discs etc. The first several months we didn't have Internet service but then decided to get it. It's never been the same. You really do become dependent on it, and there is a vast amount of information to be found on the Internet.

In 2000 I got my own computer, before that I think it was 95/96 we got computers at work, and were pretty much left to our own devises to figure it out for ourselves, if we had not been around computers before, So it was a help each other and learn by experience type situation.

I haven't been on the net that long about 3 years, I kept saying I didn't want a computer, but now I have one, I wouldn't or couldn't do with out it

I was 55 when the internet fad began...now im 70..wow

My granddaughter's school mates are taken aback when she told them that her grandpa (that's me) is always surfing the internet that she got no chance to use the computer.