cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1222938
Archived version: https://archive.ph/RkD8p
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230809020208/https://www.eureporter.co/internet-2/2023/08/08/96-of-young-people-in-the-eu-uses-the-internet-daily/
Who the fuck are the 4%?
Probably people who don’t realize some things are part of the internet
“I don’t use the internet. I only use Netflix and twitter.”
Amish?
I have never seen such people in Europe…
Gypsies
They scam people on the internet as well.
Luddites
It’s a bigger number than I’d have picked in a pub quiz, bet there are always people who have medical reasons not to be able to use the internet.
If you’re in a coma or have a severe mental disability you probably won’t be on Lemmy.
And the other 3.9%?
And do you have the ability to awnser such Surveys then? And what’s with the remaining ~4%
Any good poll accounts for people who won’t pick up the phone. Otherwise you might as well not poll.
As for the 4%, that’s why I said it’s a bigger number than I’d have picked. There is probably a perfectly reasonable answer as to why it is 4%. I just gave you one example but it’s easy to tink of a few other scenario’s: poverty, lack of internet availability in rural areas, the exact wording of the polling questions, etc. It’s not my poll.
It’s funny, I’m no longer a “younger person”, but I was, just as the internet was really taking off in the public sphere in the mid 90s.
And I know for sure that we got on just fine without it - and yet, I now can’t imagine how we possibly did. I use it every single day for so many things, work, news, leisure, communication, etc. I almost can’t remember life without it.
Not saying that’s a good or a bad thing, but it’s weird to think about.
I mean, not UK, but I use it hourly, at least for the hours I’m awake.
